. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1905- THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 201 BEE CULTURE IN JAPAN. second is "The Honey Bee," Tokio. First edition in 1896 and third edition By Burton N. Gates. j" '??^: ^*.'' ^ ^''F'''^ ^°""'^' ^^^^^^rated booklet of seventy-four pages, selling APAN, of late, has shown marked at twenty sen or ten cents. (This is interest in bee-keeping. The in- quite a contrast to the price of Anieri- ustry as practiced formerly by the can or English bee-literature.) atives was not particularly profita- From a brief abstract of the work, Te; but no
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1905- THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 201 BEE CULTURE IN JAPAN. second is "The Honey Bee," Tokio. First edition in 1896 and third edition By Burton N. Gates. j" '??^: ^*.'' ^ ^''F'''^ ^°""'^' ^^^^^^rated booklet of seventy-four pages, selling APAN, of late, has shown marked at twenty sen or ten cents. (This is interest in bee-keeping. The in- quite a contrast to the price of Anieri- ustry as practiced formerly by the can or English bee-literature.) atives was not particularly profita- From a brief abstract of the work, Te; but now measures are being tak- the author appears well versed in n to make bee-keeping both pleasur- Western methods. While he claims ble and profitable. The progress of not to translate the work of Western he West is being investigated and authors, he has evidently followed atterned after. closely their thought. The illustrations In Japan, the center of this advance- are also Western devices, such as ex- tent has been Tokio, where a school tractors, honey knives, hives and so nd association for the promotion of on. In his chapter on diseases, while ee-culture, have been established. In he does not mention any Western au- le school girls aiefly are instruc- d, the purpose sing to give to le women a light aft which they in apply while the len are busy with le more laborious ork of farming, s an industry in self, bee-keeping not especially ad- sed. The association lentioned (proba- y a part of the hool) has been Ding great work I promoting the •t of bee-keeping. translation of an dvertisement ads : " This as- )ciation is trying enlist members the study of )icultural meth- Is as a side-bus- less for farmers and women )urse is to be completed in three flowers lonths. Membership, i yen and 20 K. AWAYAGAI. Tokio. Japan. The able in Japan thor, the writer shows his familiar- ity with recent bac- teriological and medicinal investi- gations. In his preface he says that the bo
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