. The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers . espare time, more spare change, and fewer mortgage foreclosures thanthe farmers of any other State. The absence of rain, hail, etc., insummer and the difference in the cost of getting through the winter,more than overbalanced all else. For several years, beginning about 1869, bee-keeping was im-mensely profitable, and in the warm days of winter and spring, the airabove the spangled earth was a steady hum. About 1878 the price ofhoney began to decline, with a decided falling off
. The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers . espare time, more spare change, and fewer mortgage foreclosures thanthe farmers of any other State. The absence of rain, hail, etc., insummer and the difference in the cost of getting through the winter,more than overbalanced all else. For several years, beginning about 1869, bee-keeping was im-mensely profitable, and in the warm days of winter and spring, the airabove the spangled earth was a steady hum. About 1878 the price ofhoney began to decline, with a decided falling off in the certainty ofproduction. The use of glucose for adulteration, in the East, has proba-bly broken the price. The decline in production has been explained invarious ways, all of which are unsatisfactory. These styles of farmingcontinued up to about 1880, w^hen slight changes for the better werenoticed, and from that time to the present, the inflow of new-comers,with the advance of new ideas and principles worked out in the coun-ties north of us, has brought about a decided revolution, which is CHAPTER III. (^;<^i
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