.Tune, 1914. 



American Bae Journal 



Bee-culture in Corsica— J. Ruffy im Foreground. 



of Washington, D. C, asking him to 

 forward samples to him, whenever he 

 found it. He was sure that it was 

 caused by the famous "nosema." Yet 

 Prof. White has failed to discover this 

 parasite in a number of samples sent 

 him. 



We walked up to his house, and sat 

 down and I made note of his replies to 

 my questions. He was intensely in- 

 terested. In discussing foulbrood, I 

 had occasion to ask him whether he 

 had read what we wrote about it in the 

 French edition of Langstroth Revised. 

 Then it became apparent that he had 

 misunderstood our name when we 

 were introduced. He jumped up from 

 his chair and insisted on shaking hands 

 over again with both Mrs. D. and my- 

 self. He was so enthused that he 

 would hardly let us depart when the 

 time came for us to take leave. It was 

 very amusing and interesting. 



Distances are not great in Switzer- 

 land, and one is soon transported 

 from one part to another. • The rail- 

 road accommodations are fine. The 

 coaches have, like ours, a passage 

 through a center aisle, but instead of 

 being in only one or two compart- 

 ments, each car has five or six sec- 

 tions. .\bout two-thirds of them are 

 smoking compartments, for smoking 

 is very popular, whether pipe, cigar or 

 cigaret. The women are accustomed 

 to it. Once or twice we even saw some 

 good-looking women smoking like 

 the men. (Why should they not ?) 

 The smoking compartments, marked 

 " raucher, fumeurs, fumatori," in Ger- 

 man, French and Italian, are always the 

 most crowded. 



During the summer months the 

 crowds are immense. When you reach 

 a railroad station in any large tourist 

 resort, you wonder how they can suc- 

 ceed in accommodating the thousands 

 who are there. But the train co.nes in, 

 unloads, reloads, and goes again, with 

 everybody aboard in comfort. 



In the afternoon of the 15th, we 

 started for Boudry, near Neuchatel, the 

 home of Mr. Gubler, from whence I 

 wrote the letter inserted in the October 

 Bee Journal. In three hours we were 

 there. A young man with a spring 



wagon awaited us at the station and 

 took us at once to the Orphans' Home 

 managed by Mr. Gubler, located about 

 a mile away, on the slope below the 

 mountain, where pure air and open 

 fields are enjoyed by some 50 boys be- 

 tween 8 and 16 years of age. 



Mr. Gubler is not only the editor of 

 the Bulletin D'Apiculture, which has 

 taken the place of the Revue Interna- 

 tionale, formerly published by Mr. 

 Bertrand, he is also president of the 

 Societc Romande D'Apiculture. The 

 name "Romande" represents nothing 

 connected with Rome, as might be un- 

 derstood by the uninformed. It repre- 

 sents simply that part of Switzerland 

 in which the French or Romanic lan- 

 guage is spoken, in contradistinction 

 with the parts of the same country 

 where German is used. It covers the 

 cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchatel' 

 and a part of Valais, Fribourg and 

 Bern. The association numbers about 

 2000 members, and is subdivided into 

 some 20 dififerent Lr.inches, which hold 

 local meetings and send delegates to 

 the central association. 



The little magazine, which is their 

 official organ, is furnished to members 

 at 42 cents per annum, while outsiders 



have to pay {)2 cents. They have a 

 mutual insurance against losses by 

 foulbrood, and have also succeeded in 

 getting from the several cantons regu- 

 lations for the inspection of bees and 

 the destruction of contagious diseases. 

 Apiaries are small but numerous. At 

 the meeting of the Neuchatel section, 

 which we attended on the Sunday fol- 

 lowing our arrival, about 80 members 

 were present. We give a cut of this 

 on our cover page. The meeting was 

 hel I in the basement of a house right 

 by the apiary of Mr. Belperrin at 

 Areuse. But the photograph had to 

 be taken upon the hillside, in the vine- 

 yard, because the apiary is located un- 

 der dwarf fruit trees in such a manner 

 that a good picture of it could not be 

 made. In the evening the beekeepers 

 were congregated together at a ban- 

 quet given in the neighboring village 

 on the shore of the Lake of Neucliatel. 

 As a trolley line joins Neuchatel with 

 the vicinity, we were only 15 minutes 

 from our lodgings. The lake is some 

 25 miles long, with pretty villas and 

 villages all along. 



A few details as to our quarters in 

 the Boudry Home and the hospitable 

 reception we enjoyed, will give a local 

 coloring to our description. The guest 

 chamber in the Home is a special 

 room in the second story of the big 

 barn. However queer this may appear 

 to American readers, this chamber is 

 kept in as fine a style as some of the 

 best hotel rooms, with white walls, fine 

 furniture, framed paintings on the 

 walls, etc. Flowers fresh from the 

 garden were daily brought in a vase, 

 and every night we found an immense 

 hot-water bottle in our bed. We pro- 

 tested against this, but it was of no 

 avail, and we had to submit. The eve- 

 ings were cool, and our hosts were 

 unwilling to chance our catching cold. 

 The private office of the manager, in 

 the main building, was our writing 

 room, and upon his desk we found a 

 framed picture of Grandpa Dadant. It 

 was there also that I first saw the mag- 

 nificent work of Gaston Bonnier on 

 the flora of France, Switzerland and 

 Belgium. 



While at Boudry, we had numerous 

 invitations from local beekeepers. W ; 

 accepted only a few, for our time was 

 limited. 



Contributed 



Articles^ 



Sense of Smell of the Honey 

 Bee 



BY N. E. MC INDOO, PH. D., 



BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



[Extract from Journal Exp. /AtoL, Vol. l6. No. 

 (, April lot J] 



EVER since man has kept the honey 

 bee, he has asked the following 

 questions in regard to its sense of 

 smell: (1) How well can the honey 

 bee smell ? (2) Where are its olfactory 

 organs located .'' (3) How important 



is this sense in the lives of bees ? Both 

 scientists and beekeepers are now gen- 

 erally agreed that the honey bee has 

 an acute sense of smell, and that its 

 olfactory organs are located in the 

 antennae, but the critics have never 

 been convinced that the antenna; carry 

 the organs of smell, because all the 

 antennal organs are covered with a 

 hard membrane through which odors 

 must pass in order to stimulate these 

 organs. 



During the past three years the writer 

 has devoted his entire time to a study 

 of the olfactory sense in the honey- bee 



