. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1897. THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 197 even though one may have "been a subscriber to Gleanings, for a year or so," if it was not liable to deceive a few thoughtless individuals, would be hardly worthy of notice. The place for Americans to domes- ticate and acclimate apis dorsata, is in America. We are told by experienced and reliable students of apiculture that in the tropics, apis mellifica, is controled with difficulty, they are quite liable to leave their hives and decamp. What then could you ex- pect of dorsata, in the hands of a mis- s
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1897. THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 197 even though one may have "been a subscriber to Gleanings, for a year or so," if it was not liable to deceive a few thoughtless individuals, would be hardly worthy of notice. The place for Americans to domes- ticate and acclimate apis dorsata, is in America. We are told by experienced and reliable students of apiculture that in the tropics, apis mellifica, is controled with difficulty, they are quite liable to leave their hives and decamp. What then could you ex- pect of dorsata, in the hands of a mis- sionary, though "a subscriber to Gleanings, for a year or ; Even if the missionary was competent, when would we get results that were any- ways reliable and useful to us as Americans? It is a wellknown fact, that climate and other surroundings, have great influence over the habits and disposition of all living things; that which would be easy and natural to accomplish at home in our own country, might be very difficult in the Orient. If you were going to Americanize and acclimate an Irishman or a Ger- man, would you go to Ireland or Ger- many to do it ? Would you get sat- isfactory results if you did ? Could you not accomplish it better and cheaper with your subject in Amer- ica? This talk of first experimenting with dorsata in the native laud is a miserable subterfuge, and is brought forward to delay and defeat the very object for which it is supposed to be laboring. Apis dorsata should be secured and introduced into the subti'opical por- tions of our country, with the least possible delay, where we can test them in our own way, time and cli- mate. Is there a bee keeper "whose heart hath ne'er within him burned" when viewing the narrow and spiteful at- tempts to obstruct all progress in this line, unless it serves the selfish ends of certain, self-styled, "leaders in ; There never has been any great enterprise undertaken but has been
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