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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1. 



success at Dalia, a Druse village in Carmel. 

 This man is up with the times, and was glad to 

 have a bee-chat in English. He had saved up 

 all the back volumes of the British Bee Jour- 



standard hives left. The other hives and fix- 

 tures have been given away to one of my pupils 

 in the Jewish settlement of Trichron Jacob, 

 founded in Carmel by Jewish refugees, under 



nal, and followed all innovations, till the death 

 of Mr. Oliphant, which suddenly cut him short, 

 without any means for continuing. The heirs 

 of said gentleman did away with every thing 

 pei'taining to bees. This man has only a few 



the auspices of Rothschild, in 18S3. That man 

 came down to Jaffa, learned the art of apicul- 

 ture in three •' full lessons," went back and es- 

 tablished an apiary, and has been in doubt ever 

 since the four years as to where he shall put his 



