. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. No. 3. GROUP TAKEN IN SIGNOR PIANA'S you Signor Piana "ipse solus"—all alone by himself in No. 4. A typical Italian, his features portray the commercial class who have always been the mainstay of Italy, and who, as our Lombard (Street records, spread even to our own shores in times long past, and taught us how to trade. Signor Piana (as his portrait shows) is still young, but he is a keen and shrewd observant o f Nature, and well studied. In taking up queen- rearing as a profession he has brought to it a most co mplete
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. No. 3. GROUP TAKEN IN SIGNOR PIANA'S you Signor Piana "ipse solus"—all alone by himself in No. 4. A typical Italian, his features portray the commercial class who have always been the mainstay of Italy, and who, as our Lombard (Street records, spread even to our own shores in times long past, and taught us how to trade. Signor Piana (as his portrait shows) is still young, but he is a keen and shrewd observant o f Nature, and well studied. In taking up queen- rearing as a profession he has brought to it a most co mplete and scientific knowledge' of all that is connected with bee life, and if possible some day he will record his experiences, we should learn much from him. And now for a few words about the apiaries. In the Signor's own words, "We have at the present 200 hives only for the production of honey, but for the rais- ing of queens we have over 300 No. 4 SIGNOR PIANA colonies to the plain for the fertilization of the lucerne.!' Look at photograph No. 5. Does it not fill one with envy to see such a long line of .: hives, dying out in the perspective? I know it did me when I saw them. But then, what is the use of being envious ? If we could only manufacture our weather to our own liking, as I suggested in my last, we might do something like this. Our queens have only about four months to do their work in. They have not got the time. But Signor Piana tells me that January is the only month in which their queens do not lay. We are hopelessly handicapped. And No. 6. The trans- porting of hives to the plains in the summer. Curious is the difference. We transfer our colonies to the mountains to catch the heather honev. On their side they bring them down from the mountains also to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfe
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