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will prove to be rich in honey. Of the richness in this commodity of 

 all the Hill Stations there cannot be any doubt. Eai Bahadur B. C. Basu, 

 late Deputy Director of Agriculture, Assam, has recorded a yield of 

 20 to 30 lb. from colonies of the Indian Bee {Apis indica) at Shillong. 

 In Hazara, the yield of the same bee is said to be as much as 40 lb. per 

 colony. In India no record is available of the places where large quan- 

 tities of honey are produced. However, the localities from which the 

 beeswax of the trade (of the annual value of about seven Jahhs of rupees) 

 is obtained, will give an almost exact idea in this respect. Supplies 

 of Indian Beeswax are chiefly drawn from the following places in the 

 different provinces.* 



Bengal. — Sundarbans, Chittagong and Darjiling. 

 Bihar and Orissa. — Sambalpur, Chota Nagpur and Purnea. 

 Assam. — Khasi Hills. 



The United Provinces. — Eastern Dun Forests and Khari. 

 The Central Provinces. — Betul, Chanda, Chhindwara, Damoh, Ho- 

 shangabad, Jabbalpur, Mandla, Nimar, Raipur and Wardha. 

 The Punjab. — Bashahr, Chamba, Hazara, Jhelum, Kangra, Kulu 



and Simla. 

 Bombay. — Khandesh (Satpura Ranges, etc.) and the Deccan. 

 Berar — ElUchpur, Mangrul, Melghat and Wum. 

 Madras. — Bellary, Coimbatore, Cuddapah, Ganjam, Godavari, 

 Kistna, Kurnul, Madura, Malabar, Nellore, Nilgiris, North 

 Arcot, South Kanara, Trichinopoly and Vizagapatam. 

 Burma. — Bhamo, Chindwin, Katha, Mandalay, Minbu, Pyinmana 



and Tenasserim. 

 All of these locaHties are suitable for bee-keeping and some of them 

 will be found to give large yields of honey. At Pusa the Italian colonies 

 yielded up to 90 lb. Places like Shillong and Hazara will probably 

 yield double this quantity. In Australia in the Basswood forests a 

 yield of 200 lb. per colony is said to be common. Similar yields can be 

 expected in many places in India. 



Besides, in India there is a special advantage by which the yield 

 of honey can almost be doubled. In the Hills the principal honey flow 

 s in autumn, in October-November, and in the Plains it is in spring, in 

 March- April. Therefore the bees can be made to gather honey in autumn 

 in the Hills and brought down to the Plains in the spring. 



We thus see that bee-keeping m India has a bright prospect before 

 it. There are rich resources of honey and there is a ready market. 

 Profitable bee-keeping will not however be possible until we succeed 



* Indian Trade Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 212 (1910). 



