Gleanings in bee culture . FlU. i. -APIAKI OK K. VANDALL. IN SUR, MONTERY CO., CAL. BEE-KEEPING IN CALIFORNIA. Summit Apiary of B. C. Vaiidall; SecondGrowth of Alfalfa in Nevada. BY SOJOURNER. Tucked away in the top of a spur of theCoast Range Mountains we tind this apiary,facing and looking down upon the waters ofthe Pacific Ocean, some two thousand feet below—see Fig. 1. Its owner, now retiredfrom more active pursuits, was once Califor-nias Iepresentative in its legislature, and ajournalist of repute. At eighty years ofage he still works with his bees. In Fig. 2 notice the fineness of the al
Gleanings in bee culture . FlU. i. -APIAKI OK K. VANDALL. IN SUR, MONTERY CO., CAL. BEE-KEEPING IN CALIFORNIA. Summit Apiary of B. C. Vaiidall; SecondGrowth of Alfalfa in Nevada. BY SOJOURNER. Tucked away in the top of a spur of theCoast Range Mountains we tind this apiary,facing and looking down upon the waters ofthe Pacific Ocean, some two thousand feet below—see Fig. 1. Its owner, now retiredfrom more active pursuits, was once Califor-nias Iepresentative in its legislature, and ajournalist of repute. At eighty years ofage he still works with his bees. In Fig. 2 notice the fineness of the alfalfastems which shoot out from the roots. Al-thovigh not yet in bloom, nor full grown, itaverages four feet in length. This quality of hay is bought at seven and. FIG,[,2 -SECOND GROWTH OF ALFALFA IN NEVADA. 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 963 eight dollars a ton, and shipped to Ken-tucky at a cost of twenty dollars a ton, andfed to the Blue-grass States is that for hay in the West ?Lovelocks, Nevacfa. DEMONSTRATION OFBEES. CAUCASIAN Advertisins; at BY FRANK G. ODELL. The demonstration shown in the accom-panying photographs was undertaken to showthe extreme gentleness of the Caucasian time chosen was not propitious, beinglate in the afternoon of a cool day in the lat-ter part of October, when no l>ees were Hy-ing. The sole pnrpose of the demonstration,which partook largely of the character of avaudeville performance, was to show to thespectators that there are bees which may behandled without fear of stings. The opera-tor, from choice, customarily does his apiarywork with bare arms, even when workingwith Italians, so that this part of the specta_
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