Gleanings in bee culture . us paper, AjncuUure Nou-velle. Tunis still keeps up its paper; andthe bee-keepers society thei*e is quite wide-awake. They stick up for the Punic bee onall occasions, and probably it suits theirconditions as well as any. Africa may beconsidered the homeland of the bee knownto science as Apis mellijica, and bee cultureis a successful industry over the entire con-tinent. Even the Sahara has its apiaries lo-cated on the oasis where the date palm isthe leading honey-plant. Egypt keeps itsbees as of yore when the Pharoahs ruled theland. According to Schweinfurth the beeso
Gleanings in bee culture . us paper, AjncuUure Nou-velle. Tunis still keeps up its paper; andthe bee-keepers society thei*e is quite wide-awake. They stick up for the Punic bee onall occasions, and probably it suits theirconditions as well as any. Africa may beconsidered the homeland of the bee knownto science as Apis mellijica, and bee cultureis a successful industry over the entire con-tinent. Even the Sahara has its apiaries lo-cated on the oasis where the date palm isthe leading honey-plant. Egypt keeps itsbees as of yore when the Pharoahs ruled theland. According to Schweinfurth the beesover a large part of Africa greatly resembleour hybrids in color, and according to sometravelers their temper is about the same. Quite possibly it would pay to make aninvestigation of the bees of Africa, but itwould be a rather expensive business foran individual in any event. We know thatthere are several distinct species of bees inAfrica and its islands, but our information0,3 to their real value to us is next to MAKING INCREASE VS. BUYING COL-ONIES. Buying Bees in Hives of all Kinds andShapes a Bad Plan; Danger of Bringingin Fonl Brood: How to Make Early In-crease. BY E. W. ALEXANDER. This question is of considerable importanceto those who have but few colonies and areanxious to secure a larger number as soon aspossible. If we could buy good Italian beesat a fair price in the same kind of a hive weuse, tilled with good worker combs, then itmight be as well to buy part of our increaseas to make them from the colonies we al-ready have; but this we can seldom do unlesswe buy of a supply-dealer. Then we canget a good standard hive with good combsand as choice a queen as we care to pay for. If you want to buy bees I think, when allthings are considered, this is the better partyto buy from. If we get our bees of some one who hasnever kept more than a few colonies and isanxious to go out of the business, then weusually get hives of bixt little value exceptfor kindling-wood
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