1905- 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



201 



BEE CULTURE IN JAPAN. second is "The Honey Bee," Tokio. 

 First edition in 1896 and third edition 



By Burton N. Gates. j" '??^: ^*. '' ^ ^''F'''^ ^°""'^' ^^^^^^rated 



booklet of seventy-four pages, selling 



APAN, of late, has shown marked at twenty sen or ten cents. (This is 



interest in bee-keeping. The in- quite a contrast to the price of Anieri- 



ustry as practiced formerly by the can or English bee-literature.) 



atives was not particularly profita- From a brief abstract of the work, 



Te; but now measures are being tak- the author appears well versed in 



n to make bee-keeping both pleasur- Western methods. While he claims 



ble and profitable. The progress of not to translate the work of Western 



he West is being investigated and authors, he has evidently followed 



atterned after. closely their thought. The illustrations 



In Japan, the center of this advance- are also Western devices, such as ex- 

 tent has been Tokio, where a school tractors, honey knives, hives and so 

 nd association for the promotion of on. In his chapter on diseases, while 

 ee-culture, have been established. In he does not mention any Western au- 



le school girls 

 aiefly are instruc- 

 d, the purpose 

 sing to give to 

 le women a light 

 aft which they 

 in apply while the 

 len are busy with 

 le more laborious 

 ork of farming, 

 s an industry in 

 self, bee-keeping 

 not especially ad- 

 sed. 



The association 

 lentioned (proba- 

 y a part of the 

 hool) has been 

 Ding great work 

 I promoting the 

 •t of bee-keeping. 



translation of an 

 dvertisement 

 ads : " This as- 

 )ciation is trying 



enlist members 

 the study of 

 )icultural meth- 

 Is as a side-bus- 

 less for farmers and women 

 )urse is to be completed in three flowers 

 lonths. Membership, i yen and 20 round. 



K. AWAYAGAI. Tokio. Japan. 



The able in Japan 



thor, the writer 

 shows his familiar- 

 ity with recent bac- 

 teriological and 

 medicinal investi- 

 gations. 



In his preface he 

 says that the book 

 is the result of his 

 personal e x p e r i - 

 ence of many years 

 " based on the in- 

 vestigations of oth- 

 ers and supple- 

 mented by the the- 

 ories of Western 

 authorities." The 

 work does not at- 

 tempt to be ex- 

 haustive or techni- 

 cal, but to meet 

 especially the 

 needs of farmers. 



In his introduc- 

 tion, the writer 

 further says, in 

 substance, that 

 " bee-keeping i s 

 particularly profit- 

 because of the many 



which bloom all the year 

 Anywhere ten to twenty 



n (or 60 cents.) Members can study hives may be supported; while in 



home; printed lectures by K. the mountains, as many as a hun- 



wayagai, assisted by others of prac- dred are of profit. The honey may be 



cal experience will be sent out. Mem- used instead of sugar (all of w^hich has 



rs can secure queens at half price, to be imported at considerable ex- 



Jueens kept by the association have pense.) There need be no anxiety of 



.en selected and tested for years, an overproduction of honey in Japan, 



hey are of good habit and easy to The market shows considerable de- 



.anage.) Members can also dispose mand for honey at an excellent price. 



: their bees, wax and honey through (What this is, we have no statement). 



le association." The avenues of use will increase, not 



We have learned of two works pub- decrease." 



shed by this association and written In brief the table of contents is: 



r K. Awayagai. One is entitled i. Introduction, 



ivening Talks on Bee-culture." The 2. Nature of the Honey-bee (char- 



