Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1912 — The Bees of White Africa. [ARTICLE]

The Bees of White Africa.

L 1 Agricplture Nouvello-’ has avery interesting article relative to bee-keeping among the Kabyles, a race of white Africans conquered by the French in the course of their acquisition of the greater part of Northern Africa. These primitive people® have two distinct species of oees which they cultivate in a domestic state —the common bee with which we are all familiar, and another species much smaller, and which they term the “wasp bee,” fom its color and possibly, also, from its ivascible temper, which causes all who have to do with it to be careful how they approach their hives. This probably, is the “Apis Adansonii of the entomologists. It is one of the most beautiful of all our honey-bees. The principal source of good honey with the Kabyles is the African sulla clover (Hedysarum flexuosum), ' a very valuable perennial clover op the alfalfa order. The bees are kept inHOng cylinders, or pipes, nearly five ieet long, and the combs are cut out from time to time. There is a marked difference between the honey produced by tbe two species of bees.