. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAl^ BEE JOURNAL. 487 sons too numerous to add to this al- ready lengthy article. The tO-frame Langstroth hive was once a standard ; many have been the changes to both larger and smaller hives. Those that have enlarged their hives have re- turned ; those that have contracted them have been pleased with their new position, and remained in it. This has been the rule, with but few exceptions. Dowagiac, p Mich. roT tlie American Bee JoumaL Grizzly Honey-Eater of California. •W. A. PETAL. Oft in our childhood days have we beard bear stories innume
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAl^ BEE JOURNAL. 487 sons too numerous to add to this al- ready lengthy article. The tO-frame Langstroth hive was once a standard ; many have been the changes to both larger and smaller hives. Those that have enlarged their hives have re- turned ; those that have contracted them have been pleased with their new position, and remained in it. This has been the rule, with but few exceptions. Dowagiac, p Mich. roT tlie American Bee JoumaL Grizzly Honey-Eater of California. •W. A. PETAL. Oft in our childhood days have we beard bear stories innumerable which made our slumbers of those days un- pleasant ones. Though these animals after gold cared not to come face to face. Not far from San Francisco there is a spot where a rancher thirty years ago was killed by one of these beasts. The place is not three miles from where I write, and is known as Grizzly Peak, and overlooks the State University building at Berkeley. This reminds me of a young, tame grizzly bear that had such an attach- ment for its owner, who lived in one of the mining counties, that it would follow him wnere he went, and would moan in disappointment and distress whenever he took his rifle down for a hunting trip, and showed any signs of leaving it behind. On one occa- sion, when engaged in hunting, he shot at and wounded a large grizzly, and being unable to escape from his vengeance, was about falling a victim —his dog and the young bear set upon the enraged grizzly from are becoming scarce, and bear stories are not told now as frequently as they were in the past, still the animals are to be found in some parts of the United States, and occasionally we read in the daily papers accounts of their depredations among the farmer's flocks and the bee-keeper's bees; and sometimes of causing the death of some persons who were suddenly sur- prised by coming upon them unpre- pared. To the sturdy pioneers of the West these monarchs of the mountain fastn
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