. Bee keeping. April 1919. To the disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines. To aid them in choosing a vocation. Bees. 15 The sage region of southern California offers great opportunities to the beekeeper. The honeys are chiefly white and secretion is abun- dant when there is sufficient rainfall. In this region also honey is obtained from blossoms of citrus fruits, which being irrigated are not so liable to failure as the plants growing in the desert. The chief problem in this part of the country is to strengthen the colonies in time for the nectar flow from citrus fruit blossoms. This may be do
. Bee keeping. April 1919. To the disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines. To aid them in choosing a vocation. Bees. 15 The sage region of southern California offers great opportunities to the beekeeper. The honeys are chiefly white and secretion is abun- dant when there is sufficient rainfall. In this region also honey is obtained from blossoms of citrus fruits, which being irrigated are not so liable to failure as the plants growing in the desert. The chief problem in this part of the country is to strengthen the colonies in time for the nectar flow from citrus fruit blossoms. This may be done by application of proper care at the right time. In choosing the location for an apiary in the sage region, great care should be exercised to select one where the average rainfall is about 20 inches. Informa- tion regarding rainfall may be obtained from the Weather Bureau offices or from forest supervisors. Many of the best locations are in the national forests, where a location may be obtained at a small rental and other beekeepers will not be permitted to Fig. 13—An apiary In the Algeroba belt of Hawaii. The honey is much llJje that from alfalfa. In addition to these chief regions, there are many localities where other plants are of sufficient value to make a good crop of honey. Such . regions are the buckwheat region, already mentioned; the Spanish needle region of the Kankakee swamps of northern Indiana and Illinois and the Delaware River Valley; the willow herb regions of northern Michigan and Wisconsin, Maine, Washington, and Oregon; the sweet clover regions of Alabama and Kentucky; the blue thistle region of the Shenandoah Valley; the raspberry region of northern Michigan; the smartweed region of the Middle West (corn belt); and the bean region of southern California. There are many other restricted regions as valuable as those Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readab
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