# To the Attention of Beekeepers

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/advertisements/to-the-attention-of-beekeepers/
- Published: 1924-06-13T18:25:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-24T21:02:43+00:00
- Section: Advertisements
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/reklyama/uvazie-pchaliarou.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/reklama/vnimaniyu-pchyelovodov.md

> In July, short beekeeping courses costing three zlotys will begin near Vilnia. The author praises the local apiary and advises mastering American hives, which are better than the old log hives.

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On the 21st of June of this year, at the apiary of K. Shalkevich in Kalvaryja Yerusalimskaya, near Vilnia, 8-day beekeeping courses will begin, open to everyone, since the fee is only 3 zlotys. They will cover the whole management of the American hive with supers (Dadant), the making of foundation, that is, artificial combs, and the cultivation of honey plants.

— Shalkevich's apiary is worth a visit. Good order, tidiness and a great love for his work strike the eye at every step; and the courses can bring great benefit to our home-grown beekeepers and show in practice the advantage that American hives with supers have over all others: Levitsky's, the Warsaw ones and so on, and all the more over the log hives, the "uprights" and the "horizontals", which could already boldly take their place in museums of antiquities.