1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



147 



DEE-KEEPING AS SEEN ON 



A TRIP THROUGH 



EUROPE. 



BY JAS. B. PAIGE. 



It was my good fortune dur- 

 ing the past summer to travel 

 3500 or 3600 miles by auto on the 

 Continent and in Great Britain. 

 I was in England, France, Italy, 

 Germany, Switzerland, and Hol- 

 land. I had with me a small 

 pocket camera, so took advan- 

 tage of every opportunity to get 

 pictures of interest to bee-keep- 

 ers. At the suggestion of Dr. 

 Burton N. Gates 1 am sending a 

 few prints, thinking they may 

 be of use in Gleanings. 



Fig. 1 shows bees in the Ber- 

 nese Alps, Switzerland, on the 

 road from Interlaken to Grindel- 

 wald. The elevation is 3000 to 

 4000 feet. There are two rows 

 of "skeps" covered with burlap, 

 in the house which is open, and 

 shingled with pieces of flat stone. 

 In tne background are bare 

 mountain-peaks over which the 

 fog "warps" in graceful curves 

 and fantastic shapes, to disap- 

 pear again in invisible mist. 

 From the field in which the 

 house is located one obtains a most beautiful 

 view of the eternally snow-capped peaks of 

 the Jungfrau (13,670 feet), the Monch 

 (13,468), the Eiger (13,040), besides many 



FIG. 2.— SIX "SKEPS" COVERED WITH BURLAP OUTSIDE; 

 A SWISS "CHALET." 



FIG. 1.— BEES IN THE BERNESE ALPS, SWITZERLAND.^ 



peaks of equal height, including the Wetter- 

 horn, Schrekhorn, Finsteraarhorn, and Sil- 

 berhorn, and, in the beautiful valley below, 

 the turbulent, i-ushing black Lutschine laden 

 with debris from the upper and 

 lower Grindelwald glaciers in 

 transit to Lake Brienz. 



Fig. 2 is a Swiss "chalet" in 

 the Liitschen Thai, near Grind- 

 elwald, Bernese Oberland, Swit- 

 zerland. Six " skeps " covered 

 with burlap sacks are outside 

 the windows of the living-room, 

 protected from rain by the over- 

 hanging roof. Note the wood 

 nicely piled beneath the hives. 

 The upper floor is reached by a 

 pair of outside stairs with a land 

 ing on the balcony, seen be- 

 tween the windows above, and 

 those near which the "skeps" 

 are standing. The garden at 

 the end of the chalet was tilled 

 to overflowing with flowers and 

 vegetables. 



In the vicinity of this Swiss 

 home the fields and mountain- 

 sides were richly covered with 

 vegetation in which honey-pro- 

 ducing flora was abundant. 

 White clover grows here in 

 great profusion, and occasion- 

 ally one finds sweet clover. 



Queer hives in a farmer's 

 garden at Payerne, Switzerland, 

 are shown in Fig. 3. All along 

 the route from Lausanne to Bern, 

 through the rich Boyer Valley, 



