. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The " Harvest" of the Bee-Fathers The great bee-keepers who placed the occupation of tending bees for profit in the high position it now oc- cupies, have almost all passed away. Verily, when we cast our mind's eye over the field of bee-culture, it first appears to us that all the eminent workers of a few decades ago have been translated to the great " Bee-Pas- ture " beyond this life. Still, we have a few of these workers with us, but we hear but little of them. They have nearly gathered their last crop of honey and have gone into
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The " Harvest" of the Bee-Fathers The great bee-keepers who placed the occupation of tending bees for profit in the high position it now oc- cupies, have almost all passed away. Verily, when we cast our mind's eye over the field of bee-culture, it first appears to us that all the eminent workers of a few decades ago have been translated to the great " Bee-Pas- ture " beyond this life. Still, we have a few of these workers with us, but we hear but little of them. They have nearly gathered their last crop of honey and have gone into " winter quarters," as it were. These reflections came to me as I was reading, a few minutes ago, "The Bee-Keeper's Directory," a pretentious volume issued from the press of San Francisco, in 1861, by J. S. Harbison. Father Harbison Still With Us. J. S. Harbison ! This was a name to conjure with 30 years ago ; how seldom. J. S. Harbison. do we hear of it to-day! Harbison, the great 1 Harbison, the man who owned more bees than any other one man, and whose apiaries were scattered upon a hundred hills in Southern Cali- fornia 1 Yes, Harbison, the man who sent the first car-load of honey to the London market, and who previously had the honor of sending the first train-load of California sage-honey East. This was the man who did great things in California. And, strange to say, he never published any- thing to speak of about bees since the appearance of liis " Directory," 46 years ago—a long time, indeed ! Harbison was the father of Califor- nia bee-culture, though he was not the first to import bees to this State ; but in this he was only antedated by a few years by other persons. He, however, was the first to make big money out of bees in the Golden West. The First Honey-Section. J. S. Harbison is given the credit as the inventor of the surplus honey-sec- tion. It was a good, fat section—not small and skimpy, like the section now so common in the h
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