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Name: guide to bee-keeping in british columbia 1911
Format: pdf
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Title: Guide to bee-keeping in British Columbia
Author: Todd, F. Dundas (Frederick Dundas)
Language: angielski
Year: 2019
Subjects: Pets, Pets - General & Miscellaneous
Publisher: 1kg Limited
ISBN: 9780267770724
Total pages: 64

Excerpt from Guide to Bee-Keeping in British Columbia

The replies received cover these regions fairly well, sufficient to at least give an indication of the possibilities in different localities.

In the Eastern Provinces of Canada, especially in Ontario, there are many men who depend on bee-keeping entirely as a means of livelihood, but, so far as is known, there is no such development of the industry in British Columbia. Thus far the largest number of hives reported as being operated by one individual is fifty, but any one confining his energies to bee-keeping alone generally considers 300 hives as the minimum number on which to spend his efforts, these being usually scattered over a considerable territory. On the other hand, it has been learned that bee-keeping as a side issue is much more common than was anticipated; in fact, in the dairying and fruit-raising districts a small apiary would seem to be a necessary feature of almost every ranch. In some localities from which the information is rather complete there is seemingly one keeper of bees to every twenty people. This fact is rather valuable, because it shows that it is unnecessary for the home-seeker to bring with him to British Columbia his colonies of bees from the Eastern Provinces. Indeed, the Department of Agriculture earnestly advises that neither bees, empty used hives, nor used bee appliances of any kind be brought in, so as to prevent, if possible, the introduction of bee diseases, from which the Province is at present apparently free. Of course, there is no objection to the importation of queens from reputable breeders.

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