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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC 
dant white honey of fine quality in places recently devastated -by fire. 
Other sources of honey in uncultivated lands are wild raspberry, golden- 
rod, and aster. 
Simple methods of modern’ bee-keeping with hives having movable 
combs are very generally practised throughout the province, but the 
old-fashioned box hives are still used in many places. The Italian bee 
is displacing the black bee above Quebec and is preferred for the southern 
part of the province; but north and east of Quebec, the black or hybrid 
bee is preferred. 
Bee-keeping provides a valuable source ot income to the farmer 
having a small farm. Many farmers and others are making a large part 
of their income from bee-keeping. The Quebec Bee-keeper’s Association 
and the bee inspectors of the Provincial Government are highly instru- 
mental in developing the industry. 
Helpful Legislation.—Legislation enacted by the Provincial Govern- 
ment has been most beneficial. ‘The bee-keeper whose hives are destroyed 
by foul breed is partly indemnified Government inspectors visit the 
apiaries. Pure-bred Italian queen bees are distributed at half the usual 
cost price. Courses of instruction are given at the Government apiaries 
at Lévis, Montreal and Joliette. The Department of Agriculture, Quebec, 
Dairy herd of Canadian race, one of the races preferred by Quebec farmers