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their excrements. In Geneva, they 

 have practically mastered even that 

 nuisance, and the motto of " Love me 

 love my dog," does not appear to have 

 maintained immunity for them from 

 the requirements of cleanliness. 



Geneva, like most Swiss cities, is 

 above all a tourist's resort. Its beauti- 

 ful lake, from which the Rhone emerges 

 with the same headlong impetuosity 

 that characterizes its passage through 

 Lyon, is one of the finest in the world. 

 Using the powersupplied bythe Rhone, 

 they have established a large electric 

 plant which furnishes light and force, 

 and is used to send a water spout some 

 300 feet up in the air, at the edge of the 

 lake. One can see it from a distance, 

 towering above th" houses like a sil- 

 very plume. 



Our first thought, after arrival, was 

 to secure an " abonnement " (subscrip- 

 tion) to the Swiss railroads. This is 

 neither more nor less than a "pass." 

 One may buy it for two weeks, for a 

 month, or for a year The passes we 

 secured were for 30 days, in second 

 class. There are three classes in all 

 European railroads, and the second is 

 generally used by well-to do people. It 

 differs but little from the first-class, 

 but it is more crowded in summer 

 owing to its slightly lower rates. 



To secure a pass it is indispensable 

 to furnish a photograph, which is pasted 

 in the little booklet and serves to iden- 

 tify you. So we had our pictures taken 

 at once. Passes are useful, not only 

 because they are cheaper than tickets, 

 but also because they save you the in- 

 convenience of rushing to the ticket- 

 window at train time, when there are 

 several hundred others doing the same 

 thing. In a large country like the 

 United States, this system would be 

 impossible, because our distances are 

 so great. But in a diminutive country 

 like Switzerland, where natural won- 

 ders and fine scenery are close together 

 and easy of access, no one wants to 



Gryon et la Dent du Midi 



Gryon in the Swiss Alps. 



travel longer than necessary to go 

 from one sight to another. 



At Geneva, we had to change our 

 watches again, for the reckoning of 

 Switzerland is by the hour of central 

 Europe, which is an hour later than 

 that of western Europe, 5 hours and 06 

 minutes later than our eastern time, or 

 (J hours and .Mi minutes later than our 

 central time. When it is 7 a.m. in Illi- 

 nois it is 1 :.5(i p.m. in Switzerland. 



Before leaving Geneva, I cal'ed upon 

 Mr. Burkhardt, the publisher of our 

 French Langstroth Revised, " L'Abeille 

 Et La Ruche," third edition. Mr. Burk- 

 hardt has one of the finest and best as- 

 sorted book stores that I have ever 

 seen. I had great pleasure in meeting 

 him, for although he has already pub- 

 lished three editions of our book, I had 

 never met him before. All our inter- 

 course with him has been through the 



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great kindness of Mr. Edouard Ber- 

 trand, the former editor of the "Revue 

 Internationale D'Apiculture." of which 

 my father was so long a regular con- 

 tributor. 



Our next stop was with Mr. Ber- 

 trand, at his mountain summer home 

 of Gryon. In spite of their age, both 

 he and his wife are very active, and 

 both were at the station to welcome us. 

 I had visited them in 1900, and found 

 them almost as spry as they were 13 

 years ago. Mr. Bertrand is of the age 

 of our Dr. Miller, and wonderfully pre- 

 served, in spite of the many responsi- 

 bilities he has had. 



The village, of which one view was 

 given in our October number, is on a 

 very steep declivity, beyond the east 

 end of Lake Geneva, and is reached 

 from Bex on the main line, by a cog 

 road. It is at an altitude of 3740 feet, 

 and in full sight of several snow peaks. 

 There are a few bees there, for it is 

 mainly a land of pastures. But the 

 best apiaries are down in the valley. 

 Mr. Bertrand is no longer active as a 

 beekeeper, but is still interested in all 

 the doings of bee-culture, and a con- 

 stant reader of our Journal, for he 

 speaks and reads English as well as 

 French. His book, "Conduite du 

 Rucher," has had dozens of editions, 

 and is published in eight different lan- 

 guages. Only one other work on bees, 

 that of Cowan, exceeds it in the num- 

 ber of translations. But we will speak 

 of this later. 



The first information we received 

 from our kind host as soon as we were 

 installed in his pretty "chalet," waa 

 that Mr. Gubler had written him asking 

 to be informed of our arrival, as he 

 would seize this opportunity to pay 

 him a long promised visit. A tele- 

 phone call was made by'Mrs. Bertrand, 

 and the very ne.xt morning Mr. Gubler 

 arrived from Neuchatel, to spend the 

 day with us. We have spoken of Mr. 

 Gubler, and gave his portrait in the 

 October number. We will mention 

 him again when we go to Neuchatel, 

 a little further along, for that is where 

 we had time and opportunity to appre- 

 ciate him. 



Mr. Bertrand has had a very exten- 



