. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 366 Novembe;, 1913. American Hee Jonrnal cans carefully and "fire away" any- thing which looks the least rusty in- side. With the Editor iu Suuiiy South- ern France When this letter is published in the Bee Journal we will have reached home. Yet it is written in the south- western corner of France, some tiOOO miles from home. Some of our friends will perhaps wonder why we do not give successive and detailed accounts of all our travels. We propose to do it, for many of our readers have asked us for a full story of our trip. But it will be done
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 366 Novembe;, 1913. American Hee Jonrnal cans carefully and "fire away" any- thing which looks the least rusty in- side. With the Editor iu Suuiiy South- ern France When this letter is published in the Bee Journal we will have reached home. Yet it is written in the south- western corner of France, some tiOOO miles from home. Some of our friends will perhaps wonder why we do not give successive and detailed accounts of all our travels. We propose to do it, for many of our readers have asked us for a full story of our trip. But it will be done only after we have reached home. We must be content now with a mere glimpse of some of the things we see. This part of France is not far from Bordeaux, the country of vineyards and of the noted claret wines, the home of the warm-hearted and hot-blooded Gascons; close to the native heath of Cyrano De Bergerac, the famous hero made immortal by the pen of Rostand, in his half comical and half tragical play of the same name. The country is rich, the valleys beau- tifu'. The house from which this let- ter is written is an old castle, perhaps .500 or 600 years old. It is not a feudal castle with towers and battlements. Those evidences of the dark ages have been torn down many years ago, and the building is just a plain quadrangle with an innercourt, a big porte-cochere stone column at the garden entrance, and a pretty avenue 1(500 feet long, with trees on each side, leading in a gentle slope to the big automobile highwav which crosses the plain below. This is the home of Mr. Couterel, the gen- tleman whose home apiary was pic- tured in the American Bee Journal of May. 1913. If you refer to the number in question, you will see by the orderly arrangement of everything that this gentleman is careful and neat. The house, though very old, with worm- eaten doors and rusty hinges is com- fortable and hospitable on the inside, and everything has been done to make our stay pleasant. After 40
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