. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February. 1915. American Hee Joarnal siderable that th paint on the homes looks as if it had just been applied and everything looks new. We give two photos of Mr. Verrefs apiary. This gentleman is a bee- keeper of long e-xperience. He has been for years a subscriber of both the American Bee Journal and Glean- ings and has these magazines in bound volumes carefully treasured. His li- brary is mainly bee books. His experience with the Italian bee, on some 20 colonies, would indicate that the lower end of the Province of Quebec is unsuited to this race,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February. 1915. American Hee Joarnal siderable that th paint on the homes looks as if it had just been applied and everything looks new. We give two photos of Mr. Verrefs apiary. This gentleman is a bee- keeper of long e-xperience. He has been for years a subscriber of both the American Bee Journal and Glean- ings and has these magazines in bound volumes carefully treasured. His li- brary is mainly bee books. His experience with the Italian bee, on some 20 colonies, would indicate that the lower end of the Province of Quebec is unsuited to this race, owing to the same conditions of short sum- mer and cool nights which make it undesirable in Switzerland. The very qualities of the Italians, of rising early, coming home late, and breeding all summ r seem to militate against them, in that region. They have no fall pasture and the crop is at end by the beginning of August, l)ut the Italian bees persist in breeding plenti- fully until fall, so that they go into winter strong but destitute. But this condition does not prevail through the entire Province. In the western counties which we visited later, for instance at St. Francois-Uu- Lac, where the secretary of the pro- vincial association. Dr. Comire, re- sides, there is a well defined fall har- vest, from buckwheat, and the Ital- ians are there considered most de- sirable. Everybody agrees that they are much more successful than the blacks in overcoming European foul- brood, which has not vet reached the. MR. VERRET IN HIS .\PIARY IN" SUBURB OF QUEBEC-Photo by Miss I. Renaud. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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