. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 29, 1909.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 161 Editorial, Notices, &c. PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. MONSIEUR ULR. GUBLER. We have much pleasure in being able to introduce to our readers M. Gubler, the President of the Societe Romande d'Api- culture. The subject of our sketch was born in a Grandchamp, and since 1876 he has had the direction of the orphanage at Bel- mont belonging to the city of Neuchatel. It was in 1862 that he came across Dzierzon's work,''Rationelle Bienenzucht," in a library, and could not put down the book until he ha
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 29, 1909.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 161 Editorial, Notices, &c. PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. MONSIEUR ULR. GUBLER. We have much pleasure in being able to introduce to our readers M. Gubler, the President of the Societe Romande d'Api- culture. The subject of our sketch was born in a Grandchamp, and since 1876 he has had the direction of the orphanage at Bel- mont belonging to the city of Neuchatel. It was in 1862 that he came across Dzierzon's work,''Rationelle Bienenzucht," in a library, and could not put down the book until he had read it through. The subject interested him so much that he decided to get a hive of bees, and he found a colony in an abandoned apiary and commenced to care for it. The pro-. MONSIEUR U. GUBLER, President of the Societe Bomande d'Apicidture. small village near Frauenfeld, and studied at the normal school of Kreutzingen, near Constance. Desiring to devote his life to the education of abandoned and unfor- tunate children, he passed six years of probation as under-master at the Bach- telen (school for poor and troublesome boys), near Berne. After this he was appointed director of the orphanage at prietor, in letting him have this hive, 6aid that the district was not a good one for keeping bees, being too near the lake, and stated that of the thirty hives which he had ten years before only this one remained. He also said that he had to feed them too much, as they did not collect enough honey to live upon. This, however, did not discourage M. Gubler,. 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 perfectly resemble the original London
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