. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. frame Langstroths were so divided that they made three or four com- partments, in each of which a queen was raised to egg-laying maturity. Mr. M. had two men assisting him and when we called he was filling an order for a hundred or more Italian queens. The main object in moving the bees to this location is to take advantage of the bean fields, Lima beans being grown extensively in the coast portion of Ventura county. Mr. Mendelson reports that the season of 1916 had been a poor one at the Piru apiary; that that good sage range did not give him a half
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. frame Langstroths were so divided that they made three or four com- partments, in each of which a queen was raised to egg-laying maturity. Mr. M. had two men assisting him and when we called he was filling an order for a hundred or more Italian queens. The main object in moving the bees to this location is to take advantage of the bean fields, Lima beans being grown extensively in the coast portion of Ventura county. Mr. Mendelson reports that the season of 1916 had been a poor one at the Piru apiary; that that good sage range did not give him a half carload of sage honey. A part of this apiary was moved to the bean fields. From this source he secures a fair crop, unless the fall is con- tinuously foggy. Some of the canyons in this por- tion of Ventura county are among the very best sage-honey yielding locations in California. The pity is that so many years prove failures. Too often a full crop is secured only once in five years, though at times every third year is a satisfactory one. Mr. Mendelson's honey crops have averaged better, I believe, than have the crops of many other bee- keepers in the county. This is be- cause after the sage honey is in, lie moves a portion of his big apiary to the low lands where the bees can collect the nectar from the bean flowers. I did not secure data as to Mr. Mendelson's harvests for the years he has been engaged in api- arian work in California, but I be- lieve his best yield was from thirty- five to forty tons. He has been in the State thirty-seven years, coining here from New York State, where he was born about 64 years ago. He had quite an extended knowledge of bees before coming to the Land of Sunshine, Flowers, Fruit and Honey; his father had kept some colonies and young Mendelson as a child ac- quired an enthusiastic love of bees and nature. The equipment of the bee ranches run by this man is probably the most extensive of its kind in California. Some twelve thousand dollars would
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