British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . d one foot and a half deep. The Karens gather this honey in a reallyplucky manner. The trees are too big tobe climbed in the ordinary way, so pegs ofbamboo are driven in to form a pegs are driven in as the man ascends,and a cool head is needed to climb onehundred and fifty feet of bare trunk onsuch a frail ladder. To eet the honey he must wait till night,and then up he goes with smoker (whichis a sort of torch), basket, and rope tolower it. Having smoked the bees, he cutsaway the comb piece by piece, andlowers it to the ground. Having secu
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . d one foot and a half deep. The Karens gather this honey in a reallyplucky manner. The trees are too big tobe climbed in the ordinary way, so pegs ofbamboo are driven in to form a pegs are driven in as the man ascends,and a cool head is needed to climb onehundred and fifty feet of bare trunk onsuch a frail ladder. To eet the honey he must wait till night,and then up he goes with smoker (whichis a sort of torch), basket, and rope tolower it. Having smoked the bees, he cutsaway the comb piece by piece, andlowers it to the ground. Having securedhis treasure, he sells it to a Burmese traderfor the noble sum of The bees buildonly on two or three kinds of treesf, -andreturn to the old spot year after year. I noted some wonderful examples of pollen distribution. One, a large mauveflower, was so curious that I made a roughsketch on a bamboo leaf. The bee enter-ing must tread on the small flat step A^and this brings the pollen brush b downon its back with some force. There are. five stamens, and the bees get a veryliberal powdering of yellow pollen. Wishing all bee-keeping friends a pros-perous season.—Ernest Hart, Mandalay,Burma, April 21 (formerly member of theLines ). [We gladly inisert your interesting notesand hope to hear from you again.—Eds.] NOTES FROM THE ISLE OF MAN. [6320.] I herewith append a few lines onour Manx spring, fiom a bee-keepersstandpoint. The weather during Marchand April was all that could be desired—glorious sunshine every day, and during aperiod of five weeks we had only oneshower. You can imagine how the beeswould increase with plenty of earlyflowers in bloom, the gorse in particularyielding its yellow pollen profusely. Mo^tof my own stocks covered ten frames bythe beginning of the present month ; but,alas! the weather broke — just as Flowery May came in—and it has rainedalmost during the whole month. Bee-keepers can now guess the critical condi-tion of those forwai-d sto
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