. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 650 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Odolcr 13. aries, located in the Simi Valley. His bees have something like 15,000 acres to roam over, to 12,000 of which he has the exclusive right. In the next issue of Gleanings will be given some " idea of the magnitude of Mr. Richardson's honey- ; His chief honey source is purple sage. We pres'ume his yields have been simply immense, for when they have a good honey-season in that part of the country, it seems to just pour in. "Rambler" Martin has been visiting Mr. E., hence the pictures and


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 650 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Odolcr 13. aries, located in the Simi Valley. His bees have something like 15,000 acres to roam over, to 12,000 of which he has the exclusive right. In the next issue of Gleanings will be given some " idea of the magnitude of Mr. Richardson's honey- ; His chief honey source is purple sage. We pres'ume his yields have been simply immense, for when they have a good honey-season in that part of the country, it seems to just pour in. "Rambler" Martin has been visiting Mr. E., hence the pictures and write-up. Mr. F. a. Crowell, a queen-breeder in Fillmore Co., Minn., has just recently taken unto himself a life-long " ; Our hearty congratulations are hereby extended to the happy couple. Altho Mr. C. has doubtless always been able heretofore to "Cro-well," he will now "Cro "-better— having such " queenly " help. (We beg our New Jersey friend's pardon. We Just couldn't help it that time—it punned itself.) A New Jekset Subscriber wrote us as follows last week : " Your new system of spelling is a good thing; push it along. If you would strangle at their birth some of those horrible puns you let loose once in awhile, there would soon be a New York in ; We are very sorry that our so-called p-jns have offended any one. They are the last things that we would suppose could be objected to. "Those horrible puns!" Well, we'll have to fix them—" strangle at their birth," or else not get them started at all. Mr. Frank McNat, of Wisconsin, was in Chicago last week, and of course called to see us. He had 700 colonies this year, in several apiaries, and they averaged about 70 pounds to the colony, of extracted honey, thus making about two carloads. It Is all sold. Mr. Pickard, of the same Slate, who had some 50,000 pounds of extracted honey this year, has also sold his crop. Judging from the way these


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