I am indebted to Mr. Rita for the following remarks on apiculture in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills.
"The Khasis"
P. R. T. Gurdon
There seem to be facilities for apiculture on a large scale in these hills, and certainly the honey which is brought round by the Khasis for sale in Shillong is excellent, the flavour being quite as good as that of English honey.
"The Khasis"
P. R. T. Gurdon
Leaving out of account large towns, where our problem is, as I have said, the same as that which confronts the industrial classes in the manufacturing centres of Great Britain, we are chiefly concerned with the application of science to the cultivation of the soil and the improvement of live stock, and of business principles to the commercial side of farming; with the teaching of dairying, horticulture, apiculture, and what has been called farm-yard lore, outside the rural home, and with domestic economy inside.
"Ireland In The New Century"
Horace Plunkett