1906 



GLEANINGS [N BEE CULTURE. 



1001 



THE FIELD DAY OF BEE-KEEPEIIS AT 

 JENKINTOWN. PA.. JUNE 2(>. 



Snap-shots of this Bi^ Meet: Stiii^los 



liees: how thev Hoiited some Experts. 



ete. 



BY E. R. ROOT. 



The stingless-bee demonstration l)y W. K. 

 Morrison, lately of the tropics, in front of 

 an anilienee (if one thonsand l)ee-keepers. 

 aronsed more general interest antl merriinent 

 than perhaps any thing else at this meeting. 



\>'e haye heard abont stingless liees. and 

 often imagined how delightful it would be to 

 hantlle a strain of bees that simply could not 

 sting, eyen if 

 they would. 

 Now, this large 

 crowd was to 

 haye the plea- 

 sure of seeing 

 these V)ees han- 

 dled, and to sat- 

 isfy itself wheth- 

 er" or not the 

 stingless yariety 

 could eyer he 

 made any thing 

 more than a mere 

 curiosity in tin' 

 hand of a prac- 

 tical bee-keeper. 

 The demonstrat- 

 or, Mr. W. K. 

 Morrison, h a d 

 trayeled many 

 thousands < )f 



miles for them in South America, eyen go- 

 ing 800 miles up the (3rinoco Kiyer. clear 

 hc'vond the pale of ciyilization. where it is 

 alniost impossilile for one eyen to chop his 

 way through the thickly matted untler brush 

 on the shores of the riyer. Here he found the 

 bees that suryiye in spite of the ants and 

 hordes of other insects that would depriye 

 them of life and home. That he was able 

 to l)ring them so far without losing them is 

 a wonder, but Mr. Morrison says that these 

 bees bear shipping well. They do not seem 

 to get excited anil into a feyer heat, and 

 suffocate like ordinary bees: hence stand a 

 long journey where other bees would die. 



He brougfit Imck two colonies of them safe- 

 ly to New York. As the city had placetl a 



: SK( KETAKV. -MK. A. L. BOYDEX. TALKINO TO OIH "LUN*; 

 arm'" TRAyELING CORRESPONDENT. DR. D. E. LYON, OF 

 RYE, N. y. — M«. BOyPEN ON THE RIOHT, 



MK. BOYDEN GIVING 

 DIRECTIONS TO THE 

 YOUNG LADY HAVING 

 <'HAK(iE OF THE DIS- 

 TRIBl'TION OF VEIL.S 

 AT THE JENKINTO^yN 

 :\IEET. 



an on keeping l)ees 

 within its Iwrders, it 

 was not deemed wise 

 to keep even the sting- 

 less yariety in the city. 

 So precicnis were they 

 that we did not dare 

 to trust them to the 

 tender care of the ex- 

 press companies, but 

 sent them to Jenkin- 

 t;jwn by special mes- 

 senger. 



