. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 12 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. drawback to the building up of colonies in the spring. Many feed meal until the blooming of the cottonwood, which is the principal tree of this region and furnishes pollen in abundance. Some of the best bee-keepers practice stimulating feeding in the spring, and find it very profitable. They mix up sugar and honey into a thin syrup, and put it out in troughs; some alfalfa twigs being put into the troughs to keep the bees from drowning. There is no danger from loss of brood by its being chilled by a "squaw winter," as
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 12 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. drawback to the building up of colonies in the spring. Many feed meal until the blooming of the cottonwood, which is the principal tree of this region and furnishes pollen in abundance. Some of the best bee-keepers practice stimulating feeding in the spring, and find it very profitable. They mix up sugar and honey into a thin syrup, and put it out in troughs; some alfalfa twigs being put into the troughs to keep the bees from drowning. There is no danger from loss of brood by its being chilled by a "squaw winter," as in Michi- gan. Bring a colony up to the alfalfa flow, with the combs full of brood, and the hive full of bees, and a crop is as- sured. What I have written of Colorado is true of many portions of the West; modified, of course, by local conditions. Con- sidering that cultivation, as a rule, lessens the yield of honey in the East, but increases it in the West, that there are untold acres yet to be reclaimed by irrigation, toward which object the general government is now beginning to direct its attention, and the prophecy of Bro. Root seems bound to come to pass. We may as well make up our minds that the West will 3-et produce the great bulk of the honey. Bear in mind that the West is yet a new country, in the formative period. Meth- ods, industries and business, have not settled down to certain lines; and the next few years will probably witness wonderful changes. On The Train, Coming Home. Nov. 25, 1901 ^" 'Hf^4^-^-. t +. (Jct-Apiarv of R. C. Aikin, Near Lovei-and,'Colokaik). Apiarj' is looattd in a tiniber-claini. Only about (ine-half the apiarj-shows. Trees have been planted about 15 years, j. 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 National Bee-keepers' Association. [Flint, Mich. : s. n.
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