James asks: Did Baudoux do his work in France?


 A web search on MSN reveals three URL’s of which two, (1)
http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/abjgrout1936.htm , and (2)
http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/bwapr1933.htm are of interest to this
thread:

(1)  An Article published in 1936 by Roy A. Grout previously mentioned
(see: http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0402a&L=bee-
l&D=1&O=D&P=1457), rewritten from journal paper of the Iowa Agricultural
Experiment Station. Ames. Iowa. Project No. 129 of which the following
introductory statement is given “The late Monsieur Ursmar Baudoux of
Belgium was the first to conceive of the use of an artificial foundation
having an enlarged cell base to increase the size of the emerging bee. In
the year 1893 he was amazed on discovering bees from an old skep which
were very much smaller than normal.”

 (2) Photos of Baudoux in an apiary and most likely the complete text of
the Bee World 1933 article which was written by Baudoux: THE INFLUENCE OF
CELL SIZE.
By Prof. U. BAUDOUX, Rucher-ecole experimental de Tervueren-lez-
Bruxelles. Belgium.

Regards,

Chuck Norton
Norton's Nut & Honey Farm
Reidsville, NC

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