. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. November, 1913. S67 American Hee Joornal j ^ee mainly in France. The trees are sparse and scrubby. The pines are all blazed for their sap, with a cup of some sort at the stump to receive the flow, which is poured into barrels and taken to the turpentine distillery, which I will describe in some other number; for it is also a honey and wax estab- lishment. The oak trees (cork oaks) are strip- ped of their precious bark once in about 10 years. Those which have been stripped this year have a reddish appearance, as if they had been painted. The bark remov
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. November, 1913. S67 American Hee Joornal j ^ee mainly in France. The trees are sparse and scrubby. The pines are all blazed for their sap, with a cup of some sort at the stump to receive the flow, which is poured into barrels and taken to the turpentine distillery, which I will describe in some other number; for it is also a honey and wax estab- lishment. The oak trees (cork oaks) are strip- ped of their precious bark once in about 10 years. Those which have been stripped this year have a reddish appearance, as if they had been painted. The bark removed is only the epider- mis, so to speak, and the tree does not suffer much from its removal. In fact, after a year or two, when the bark has grown on again, the trunk looks smoother and cleaner than the upper limbs, for the old cork bark, which is never removed from the limbs, but only from the lower 10 or 12 feet, looks like the hide of a crocodile, or worse. This cork bark is hauled to a cork factory, a short distance away, and enters from there the channels of commerce. I was informed that the cork oak did not orignally exist in very large numbers in this region. It was planted there. In many places this fact is evidenced by the rows of trees which could not have grown so regularly in the natural way. So the " landes " of France, which were once useless and barren, are now giving three crops which are quite profitable, turpentine and rosin, cork and honey. We reached the out-apiary, situated away from the village, and surrounded simply with a high screen fence. I en- quired whether they did not think the place rather in danger from thieves, but they explained that bees are plenti- ful all through the heather plains, that they are mostly in wicker baskets cov- ered outside with cow-dung and clay, and that no one needs be afraid of honey thieves when honey is so plenti- ful. An hour or two later, at dusk, we rode to a primitive apiary, also located in the midst of th
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