. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Julv 24, 1902 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 477 liHliUitr the posl-olIiccacUlressof a eoi'rrsixiiiil- unt. VVu avoid tliut. I)y simply jrivlriu; llu' Couiily anil Stale, which is sullicient for loca- llon.) .So wo will omit the i'oriuspoiiiii. The blossoms appear in .lune, but I have never seen a bee upon tlu'in. I thiid; Ihe llower-tnbes are too deep for the liees to reach the neclar. The vetch is not plentiful here; but since the bees work upon it whenever the weather is warm enoujjh for them to lly, if raiseil in lari^-e quantilios, it certainly would be o
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Julv 24, 1902 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 477 liHliUitr the posl-olIiccacUlressof a eoi'rrsixiiiil- unt. VVu avoid tliut. I)y simply jrivlriu; llu' Couiily anil Stale, which is sullicient for loca- llon.) .So wo will omit the i'oriuspoiiiii. The blossoms appear in .lune, but I have never seen a bee upon tlu'in. I thiid; Ihe llower-tnbes are too deep for the liees to reach the neclar. The vetch is not plentiful here; but since the bees work upon it whenever the weather is warm enoujjh for them to lly, if raiseil in lari^-e quantilios, it certainly would be of j^reat importance in trottin*;^ the bees in f^ood condi- tion for the white clover flow, which begins late in .lune. The opportunities for bee-keeping here are good. The amount of clover is increasing rapidly ; we have a good home market, and at a fair price. A good many bees are kept by farmei's, and •do i|uilewell; but real, live, up-to-date bee- keepers are very few indeed. Only miles away are the burnt liLuber regions of the Cascade Mountains, where tire- weed, salal. vine-maple, and other honey- plants abound. The (luality of tlui honey produced there is ot the best, but the terri- tory is unoccupied except by the millions of wild bees that are everywhere found. I visi- ted this region twice last summer, and found the salal yielding nectar in iiuaniities that surpassed even the most reports •of the basswood. Here are thousands of acres of unclaimed land, good mountain water, and only 20 to miles from the railroad—surely, a bee-keep- •ers' paradise, unknown and undeveloped. Not many years ago a man kept an apiary ?of ilO colonies in the mountains I'i miles from here, and cleared an average of $000'per year. This man died, and the apiary passed into the hands of others, who were not bee-keepers, .and the business soon went to ruin. No one has tried bees on an extensive scale there since, but most ot the settlers keep a tew (one man whom I visit
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