INTRODUCTION. 
ON BEE-KEEPING IN FRENCH 
SWITZERLAND. 
French Switzerland appears to us to possess 
all the requirements necessary and, in fact, in- 
dispensable for successful bee-keeping; neverthe- 
less, in passing through the various cantons of 
which it is composed, we have experienced a 
feeling of regret at the sight of a considerable 
number of apiaries in a bad state, or even 
sometimes abandoned altogether. 
The last three years, in which the seasons 
have been, for the most part, bad ones, the 
number of gaps has been increased; and it is 
only by following out a rational system, that 
some few bee-masters have preserved the 
number of their insect colonies unimpaired. 
