. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE I-RUIT OF THE CHASE-W. H. LAWS. BEEVILLE, TEX, as they hear the roar of the torch. In a couple of hours two men feed over 100 head. The thornless cactus of the great Burbank was produced to obviate this labor. But it would have to be planted, cared forand protected against the cattle who would soon destroy it, since it is without defensive thorns. With this method, until cactus ranches can be established, of the thornless kind, the cattle get only as much as the owner cares to give. The supply is limitless. The same day at noon, Miss Saathoff kind
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE I-RUIT OF THE CHASE-W. H. LAWS. BEEVILLE, TEX, as they hear the roar of the torch. In a couple of hours two men feed over 100 head. The thornless cactus of the great Burbank was produced to obviate this labor. But it would have to be planted, cared forand protected against the cattle who would soon destroy it, since it is without defensive thorns. With this method, until cactus ranches can be established, of the thornless kind, the cattle get only as much as the owner cares to give. The supply is limitless. The same day at noon, Miss Saathoff kindly brought us to the D'Hanis sta- tion and we continued our trip to Uvalde this time, meeting, on the train, our friend Paddock. Uvalde, which we reached at 2:00 , is by many people called the best honey-producing spot of Texas. In October, 1901, the editor of Gleanings, E. R. Root, de- scribed it as the beekeeper's paradise, and paid a visit to the very man who awaited us at the station this time, Mr. W. D. Bunting. Mr. Bunting was then a bachelor. He is now a married man with a charming wife and a nice little son. Mr. Bunting was then one of the largest honey producers in the country. He has had as many as 1200 colonies and still runs about He is secre- tary of the local association. The beekeepers we met at this spot are all large producers. There were some 15 or 20 at the meeting, and I do not believe a single one of them owns less than 500 colonies of bees. They looked like practical men, every one of them. The county of Uvalde, in the Texas statistics published in 1913, is shown to have over 10,000 colonies of bees in movable-frame hives, and prob- ably the tabulation is incomplete. But the weather was too dry. The bees were invariably reported suffering, dwindling, probably for want of pol- len. Usually there is plenty of pollen- furnishing flora, early in winter. This year there was none. The mesquite, however, was almost ready to bloom, and no doubt in a few
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