. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mny, ISIfi. Amorican Hee Journal I bee:keeping in chile By M. C. Richter IN the fall of the year 1844, 25 colonies of bees left Milan, Italy, on a long journey around Cape Horn to the Port of Valparaiso, Chile. Their owner, Patricio Larrain Gandarillas, who had previously made an unsuccessful at- tempt to introduce bees into Chile, was this time rewarded for his efforts. Two colonies out of the 25 survived the p ? 1 IHI' ''^ ^wSt ?Hft.^.. "IKj^ 1 ^w~Tt- - ' ^ u^S9~ Fig. I.—The Common Beehive of Chile- Its Dimensions are 13x13x6 Inches trip. Altho
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mny, ISIfi. Amorican Hee Journal I bee:keeping in chile By M. C. Richter IN the fall of the year 1844, 25 colonies of bees left Milan, Italy, on a long journey around Cape Horn to the Port of Valparaiso, Chile. Their owner, Patricio Larrain Gandarillas, who had previously made an unsuccessful at- tempt to introduce bees into Chile, was this time rewarded for his efforts. Two colonies out of the 25 survived the p ? 1 IHI' ''^ ^wSt ?Hft.^.. "IKj^ 1 ^w~Tt- - ' ^ u^S9~ Fig. I.—The Common Beehive of Chile- Its Dimensions are 13x13x6 Inches trip. Although both of these were ex- tremely weak, each cast a fine swarm the following spring, much to the as- tonishment of the natives who could not understand why so many bees should hang on the limb of a tree in such a peculiar manner. Forty years later, the descendants of these two Italian colonies reached from the 25th to the 44th parallel of Chilian territory; a distance of 1315 miles, or nearly twice the length of the State of California. It speaks well, indeed, for Chile as a bee country and for the Ital- ian race of bees. About 95 percent of the apiaries ex- tending over this immense stretch of land consist of small frameless hives (Fig. I.) that produce per colony an aaverge of about 14 pounds of honey and 3 pounds of wax annually. The "inquilinos" or farm laborers handle these apiaries, which are merely adjuncts to the large farms of the coun- try. Some of these yards are very large, and run into the hundreds of col- onies. They have, however, entire val- leys and canyons to themselves. A typical apiary (Fig. II.) may contain in the spring 300 colonies, and by fall, through prime and afterswarms, as many as 700 colonies. The winter loss, however, is nearly 50 percent. The methods of beekeeping are most crude. In the spring swarms are hived in the small boxes described above, and in a short while three or four empty ones are added. Before winter sets in all but on
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