. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. Thou Cheerful Bee. .TH3U cheerful bee I come, freely come, And travel runnel my woorlbiue bower ; Delight me with tliy wand'rinR hum. And rouse me from my mtieiDf^ hour. Oh 1 try no more thone tedious fields. My honied treasures all are thine ; Come taste the sweets my Kardeu yields, The bud, the blossom, all are thine. —(Smyth. Bee Keeping in Southern California. From the Anierican Bee Journal we extract two lett
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. Thou Cheerful Bee. .TH3U cheerful bee I come, freely come, And travel runnel my woorlbiue bower ; Delight me with tliy wand'rinR hum. And rouse me from my mtieiDf^ hour. Oh 1 try no more thone tedious fields. My honied treasures all are thine ; Come taste the sweets my Kardeu yields, The bud, the blossom, all are thine. —(Smyth. Bee Keeping in Southern California. From the Anierican Bee Journal we extract two letters upon bee keeping in Galifomin by persons who evidently view the business and country from different temprements. The first letter is by J. W. Sallie, Anaheim. Dear 7?t'C Jouninl :—lu my last I promised to tell the "bee men" something o£ South- ern California. First, then, as to CLIMATE I do not suppose that there is a better cli- mate on earth than that of Southern Califor- nia, especially that portion west of the moun- tains. Such is a large portion of Lon Angelos county, it being a beautiful valley, about twentv miles wide and seventy-five long, with a slope of about twelve feet to the mile, from the mountains to the beach. This valley, be- ing west of the mountains, is free from the bleak winds of the desert, and the cold winds from the north, with a regular sea breeze every day, rendering the climate more even than that of S|)ain, France or Italy ; the mercury seldom going above eighty degrees, and rarely below forty degrees. Near the coast it is cooler ; but as j'ou approach the mountains, the climate grows warmer, at the rate of about one degree per mile. Near the coast it is too damp and cool for consimip- tives—but on the west side of the mountain, at an altitude of 1,500 or 2,000 feet, you are above the fogs and dampness—and the cli- mate is juxt splmiVid. There is never any frost at this altitude, on the west side of the mountains—and here is
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