March 20, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOUPNAL 



187 



Willi arul rocky country, only rciiminin>,' In 

 one Uiciility so lon^ as llowcrs aljuund, wu 

 sliiill licllcr realize why it moves from pliice 

 to pliiciN anil llie importance of so iloinn to Its 

 general wellarc. Therefore, we see that only 

 in completely altering' its natural inibits could 

 we ho]ie to (ionutsticate this bee, or i)rin(; it 

 into use under otlier circumslanees to those 

 in winch 11 has always lived. Also, on ac- 

 I'ount of its size ami the power of its llljcht 

 tlie (iianl Hee will travel as much as Illll miles 

 before a^^ain settlinj; down to home life. . 



It is not so much the honey t'alhered li\ 

 these liees which is valuable to the natives, iuit 

 the large quantities of cond) they produce, 

 which is melted down into wax, whhdi forms 

 51 valuable article of industry in India, Tlie 

 liillmen do not trouble much about the honey, 

 l>ut are said to eat the young bees and larva' 

 witli great gusto. Another hindrance to domes- 

 tication is the way they build their nests, (|uite 

 In the open, entirely unprotected, and always 

 single combs from about v> ft. to f, ft. in length 

 and about 2 ft. to 'A ft. in depth. Some tine 

 specimens of these combs are to be seen in 

 the South Kensington Natural History Mu- 

 seum. 



When a species of insect Inis l)een used to 

 certain habits for generation afier generation 

 — in fact, has never l<Down imv others — it will 

 be readily understood how ditHcult would be 

 the problem presented to us did we attempt to 

 keep such a refractory creature in conflne- 

 meut. The only attempt made seems to have 

 been a failure. A i|iieen-bee was tied by a 

 thread to a stick and placed in the hollow of a 

 tree, and after two or three months a very 

 small piece of comb was found, and the ex- 

 periment, proving useless, was aliandoned. 

 Since this a writer to the last tioverment re- 

 ports says that •' he had seen seven hives all 

 well and fed for the winter," but in the spring 

 the " little brutes " decamped by twenty or 

 thirty a day, until each queen in turn left the 

 hive in disgust. Clipping the queen's wings, 

 as done in modern bee-keeping, would prove 

 fatal to Apis tlorsata. On account of her un- 

 controllable character she would probably be 

 lost. 



The question arises, if we cannot domes- 

 ticate Apis dorsdtd itself, could we by judi- 

 cious crossing attain the desired end? The 

 best answer to this question will, I think, be 

 found in the fact that European bees exist 

 which are closely allied to a species found in 

 Northern India, which never crossed with 

 Apis IjuIIcii, very similar to our European bee, 

 with which douiestication might be a success, 

 but if any real advantage would arise there- 

 from or not is doubtful, and no doubt can 

 remain that the facts relating to Apis ilurs'ila 

 must forever bar the way to domestication. 



<lerm that is Killing the Market for 

 Extracted Honey. 



W. W. JIcNeal, in the American Bee- 

 Keeper, says it is not one outside of Iwe-keep- 

 crs themselves. He strikes pretty close to the 

 truth when he says : 



Now, bad as glucose may be, the germ that 

 is sapping the life of trade in honey finds its 

 abiding place in unscrupulous methods of 

 production ! To^people of taste and refine- 

 ment the quality and general appearance of 

 extracted honey in so many instances reflects 

 on the producer such slovenly habits as to be 

 in reality reprehensible. 



The man who produces thin, unripe, un- 

 strained or dirty honey, and palms it otf on 

 another is just as deserving of censure as one 

 who puts in glucose and calls it honey. The 

 effects are the same in both cases, for both 

 job honey of its rightful constituents. 



Apiculture in Chile, S. A. 



I am situated near 38 degrees, while the 

 whole territory extends from IS deg. 40 min. 

 to.55 deg. r>d min. In the extreme north rain 

 never falls, and consequently no place for 

 bee-keeper nor bees; whereas, in the region" 

 •south of this — about latitude 40 deg. — rain is 

 constant all the year round, not the most de- 

 sirable location for the bee-keeper, either. 



It may interest some readers to know that 

 the mean rainfall varies Jrom I',' millimetres 



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