The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-10-06

the spring. When the Italians were
just beginning to think about WORK
ing; the Cyprian oees would DC IN
full vigor. In the warehouse the
temperature was kept at 45'-tho-
roughly dark. In Cyprus they keep
about as many bees as in Canada &C.
cording to the population: from y,
what he knew of the business, ne
was thoroughly convinced that
Canada was as good, if not better,
than any other country, because IN
Canada the bees could be kept on
very little stock. AS feeding
ground Canada possessed many ad-
vantages the Eastwood tree pro-
duces honey from twelve to fifteen
days; in other countries they do not
have that tree. The first honey ez-
tracted was from the willow early in
the spring, then the fruit blossoms,
then dandelions, white clover, wild
berries, Alsilke clover, Eastwood,
Canadian thistle, and the fail flowers.
From the thistle he had about TO-
900 pounds OF honey last year. An
average stock OF bees will produce,
with coed management, from lOO to
800 pounds; last year he had taken
from 600 colonies, $4,000 pounds OF
honey.
In Cyprus and Palestine the sys-
TEN OF keeping bees is of such a
primitive nature that they could
never get much honey. 1t requires
about twenty-five pounds OF honey
10 secrete wax enough for comb.
In Cyprus they keep the bees in mud
cones, having no improved inven-
tions. In Palestine they keep the
bees in the water jug, the bees 60
ing in and ont the neck. In Jerusa-
lem the hive is made like a conical
bullet. In Lebanon and Mount Her.
mon they are made about three feet
long and plasteled with clay. In
Damascus and on the desert they are
kept in clay cylinders not burnt.
Honey gathered on the mountain
tops is very much brighter and liner
favored than that gathered III the
valleys; tor all parties clover honey
is liked the best; Eastwood honey
is thicker and stronger, and IS not
liked so we'll he never ted his bees
in winter, and bee keepers who did
would not have any bees in the
spring they should be sufficiently
provided in the fall in Europe there
is as much demand for honey as can
be supplied at. 2resspt there is very
little exported. Bees ore often sub
iected to dysentery and foul brood
salycilic acid is good remedy for
the latter disease; in breeding 1t is
very deleterious, more so than IN
any other animal; the queen always
mates in the air, and if care is taken
overbreeding will not take place;
moths are injurious to bees. Gene
rally this arises from the drones not
guarding the hive after the death OF
the bees. He had received loO or.
ders from New York alone for
queens that he had brought from
Cyprus with him, at from So to $40
apiece He would not let them go,
because he wanted to keep them IN
the country. He had lett a man III
Cyprus breeding the bees, who
would ship to nm regularly. The
witness then graphically described
the primitive condition OF the ma
tives i'll Cyprus, and continued by
saying that the northern paris OF
Simcoe and Muskoka are very favor
able to bee.culture, because there Is
plenty Of pasture land for the bees
it is an industry that could be fairly
encouraged in that section. Cooks
Manuel Of Bee Culture is the best
published work on the subject. lie
thought the singing business was
more talked about than anything
else, claiming there was no need OF a
person getting stuDg. The great
thing is to Keep the colonles as
strong as possible; not 70 make them
| swarm very of on