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Currently reading a book which I found tucked away in a bargain bundle at a spring bee auction (well, that's what I told SWMBO anyway 
)
'Beekeeping in the Tropics', written by Francis G Smith in 1960, he was head of the beekeeping division of what is now Tanzania and was based at Tabora in the West which is not that far from the area where I am helping WWF set up a new beekeeping project.
It was pre Top bar beekeeping and he had a lot of assistance from Eva Crane, R O B Manley and A S Rowse amongs others in writing it.
The preamble discusses the development of commercial and moveable frame beekeeping in Europe and America and discusses all species of honeybee not just Mellifera.
It's just a few paragraphs in the first chapter that tickled me espeially his comments on how beekeeping was held back by the usual suspects until some look further afield for knowledge and expertise..
I must say my chuckling did wake SWMBO from her slumbers.
)'Beekeeping in the Tropics', written by Francis G Smith in 1960, he was head of the beekeeping division of what is now Tanzania and was based at Tabora in the West which is not that far from the area where I am helping WWF set up a new beekeeping project.
It was pre Top bar beekeeping and he had a lot of assistance from Eva Crane, R O B Manley and A S Rowse amongs others in writing it.
The preamble discusses the development of commercial and moveable frame beekeeping in Europe and America and discusses all species of honeybee not just Mellifera.
It's just a few paragraphs in the first chapter that tickled me espeially his comments on how beekeeping was held back by the usual suspects until some look further afield for knowledge and expertise..
[only fifty!!]
I can see Manley's fingerprints all over that
I must say my chuckling did wake SWMBO from her slumbers.
