Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1911lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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XoY. 9, 1911.) THE BEITISn BEE JOURNAL. 447 l^ect of getting an ounce of surplus hone)'. Now came an injustice to one of the county experts. I received a letter two months later saying that Mr. , the expert, had called. He said the bees I had looked at would do no more good, and had advised her to sell them. Would I make an offer? Of course, I did not want the worthless stock : but it showed me how easily an expert's advice may be perverted. I knew the expert, and did not for a moment believe he had advised the sale of these diseased bees. What probably hap- AX EGYPTIAN APIARY. The picturesque illustration below of an apiary in P)gypt gives one an interesting view of the scenery in that Old World country. The bees are kept in very primitive fashion. The hives, which are constructed of clay, are cylindrical in shape, the ends being loose. In the centre of one end can be ^een a hole which allows ingress and egress to the bees. The hives are stacked together and present the ajjpear- ance of a clay wall. The honey is ob- tained by removing the back end, the
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AN EGYPTIAN APIARY. pened was this : the expert advised her to get rid of the bees; and being possessed of a strongly-developed commercial in- stinct, the lady bee-owner jumped to the conclusion that the bees should be disposed of, as sickly cattle, pigs, and poultry are, to some unwary purchaser. Why I was singled out for this doubtful compliment T cannot imagine. How much better it would have been if the expert had had power to order the destruction of the bees than that the owner should have the right, providing a customer could be found, of sending the stock to infect a neighbour- hood in which possibly the disease was un- known. bees being then driven from the combs by burning a particidar kind of wood. The combs containing honey and brood are then removed and consumed intact. The natives do not seem to mind eating the brood as well as the honey ; in fact, they seem to prefer this mixture. One man will own as many as two thousand of these primitive hives. The greatest enemy of bees in Egypt is the hornet, and to prevent their depreda- tions Aral) boys are employed to kill them with a flapper, i.e., a large piece of leather fastened to the end of a stick, by means of which they knock down and kill the hornets.

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