..United States. Those that came from California, being only four or five 
days on the journey, generally arrived in good condition, but shipments 
from greater distances, such as the Southern States, being longer in 
transit, a large proportion were dead on arrival. If these bees can be 
obtained in good shape during April, or early in May, when they seem to 
travel best, and placed on four or five built out combs, for a start, and fed 
with thin syrup until they are able to obtain sufficient food from outside, 
they have been found to produce enough honey the first season to pay for 
their cost several times over. The Provincial Government regulations 
now in force require that each shipment of bees without combs must be. 
‘accompanied by an Inspection Certificate, from a,duly authorized State 
Inspector, showing that the apiary from which they are sent has’ been 
recently inspected and f2und to be free from disease. Ocherwise they are 
liable to be held in quarantine at the port of entry in the province, Queens 
are allowed to come in through the mails without restriction. The im- 
portation of bees on combs is not permitted. The postal reguiations in the 
United States have recently been revised so that bees in vombless pack- 
ages can now be sent through the mails. Endeavors are being made to 
get this extended to Canada. 
In 1918 shipments of bees in combless packages have been almost a 
total failure owing to delays in transit. 
In the year 1914, the Kootenay Beekeepers’ Association was organized 
and the beekeepers have benefited in many ways by co-operation. This 
year (1918) the Kootenay Association has been amalgamated with the 
Beekeepers’ Association of British Columbia, which was incorporated in 
1916 under the Agricultural Associations Act, and is now known as the 
Kzotenay Division of that Association. The objects of the association are: 
To promote and encourage the keeping of bees by the most suitable 
methods for their profitable management. 
To assist members in disposing of their produce to the best advantage 
by the adoption of uniformity in the packing and grading for market, and 
the provision of a special distinctive label or seal for the use of members 
only, which shall be a guarantee of excellence and purity. 
T> obtain the most advantageous terms for members in the purchase 
of bee supplies. ‘ . 
To effect the standardizing of such bee appliances as may be found 
most suitable for the province 
To promote and regulate local exhibits of bees, honey, wax, etc., and 
arrange for che judginy sf same. 
To aid in the dissemination of reliable and practical information with 
regard to the bee industry and further its progress in every way possible. 
The annual subscriptizn is one dollar. 
METHODS OF BEEKEEPING FOUND SUITABLE FOR THE 
KOOTENAYS 
‘ Hives, : 
What is known as the ten-frame hive, taking ten Langstroth 
frames, is considered to be the most convenient and suitable for general 
use. If preferred this can take the form of a double-walled brood cham- 
ber, with single-walled. hive- bodies as supers. A complete hive of this . 
description was, for the convenience of the beekeepers, standardized by 
the Kootenay Beekeepers’ Association. 
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