. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 100 March, 1913. American l^ee Journal honey evenly and snow-white, and will work when other bees do nothing But as to their gentleness I do not hnd them as gentle as some claim. I am satished they are a good all-around bee. iRA Walton. Gotham. Jan. S. Finding Bee-Trees The front cover picture of this Journal shows part of the tree cut away, the swarin exposed to view, and me hunting for the queen. After removing lo pounds of honey and three frames of brood which they had built in two months. I brushed the bees into the hive, used smoke on them
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 100 March, 1913. American l^ee Journal honey evenly and snow-white, and will work when other bees do nothing But as to their gentleness I do not hnd them as gentle as some claim. I am satished they are a good all-around bee. iRA Walton. Gotham. Jan. S. Finding Bee-Trees The front cover picture of this Journal shows part of the tree cut away, the swarin exposed to view, and me hunting for the queen. After removing lo pounds of honey and three frames of brood which they had built in two months. I brushed the bees into the hive, used smoke on them while doing Tlie best way to find bee-trees is to follow up little streams or creeks in the woods during the dry season. If there are any bees around, vou are sure to tind their watering place When vou have found it, watch my best apiaries, where it burned the honey house and 41 colonies of bees. It has badly injured or destroyed our bee-range. Under the circumstances we have sold some 500 colonies and partly gone out of the bee-busi- ness for a while until the sages, grow again "Everything was dry as tinder, for they had no rain until three or four days ago The greatest cold I haveknownsince I left the East in 1875. has covered California and hit the oranges and lemons very hard, prob- ably ruined half of the crop. Orange and lemon growers smudged every night for over a week. They took 75 to 100 carloads of oil out every day and made solid clouds of smoke, and yet lost. Mat. Geo. F. Merriam. Los Angeles. Cutting a Bee-Tree. This swarm was followed from his yard in June. 1012 and recovered 2 months later. where they go. If they fly low down they are not far. but when they go high up in a circle their home is quite a distance. Watch several bees to be sure you get the right line, and then look at every tree as you go. low and high, and you will soon find them. , , . , , Another way to locate bee-trees is to set a bait of thinned honey on a stump or
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