. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 47 Beemen of the Present—M. H. Mendelson By W. A. Pryal AMONG the many beekeepers in California who have produced honey on a large scale few have exceeded the operations of Mr. M. II. Mendelson, whose apiaries have done much to make Ventura county famous as a honey-yielding section of the Golden State. It was in the early winter of 1892, I believe, that I first met Mr. Men- delson at a meeting of beekeepers in Los Angeles. At that time he began to agitate for beekeepers of the State making a presentable exhibit of their apiar
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 47 Beemen of the Present—M. H. Mendelson By W. A. Pryal AMONG the many beekeepers in California who have produced honey on a large scale few have exceeded the operations of Mr. M. II. Mendelson, whose apiaries have done much to make Ventura county famous as a honey-yielding section of the Golden State. It was in the early winter of 1892, I believe, that I first met Mr. Men- delson at a meeting of beekeepers in Los Angeles. At that time he began to agitate for beekeepers of the State making a presentable exhibit of their apiarian resources at the Columbian Exposition to be held the following year in Chicago. And a year or two following he did his ut- most to make the beekeepers show at the Midwinter Exposition to be held in San Francisco during 1894 a M. H. MENDELSON IN WORKING GARB. One of his hired men is gathering the "Queen ; He also worked strenuously to have a creditable exhibit of Califor- nia's bee products at the great expo- sition of 1915. He had outlined a plan that would have done credit not only to our apiarists, but those of all the world. But through the med- dling of others, the plans had to be abandoned, and there was no exhibit of the apiarian industry worthy of the name, though a few individuals and firms made good scattering ex- hibits of bee supplies. While on my trip through Califor- nia south of here, in 1916, I made it a point to visit Mr. Mendelson. I hoped to find him at his big apiary some two and one-half miles south of Piru, but on enquiring at the largest store in that town as to the best auto road to take, I was informed that he. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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