. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. §]nitvn. Bee-Keeping In California. fOUTHEBN California is attracting the attention of all the apiarists in the United States. It is evidently the bee- keeper's paradise. We think that we can do no better for this department, this month, than to extract from some letters on bee-keeping in Southern California which we find in the Ania-ican Bee Journal. A gentleman who signs himself "Amateur" writes: Time
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. §]nitvn. Bee-Keeping In California. fOUTHEBN California is attracting the attention of all the apiarists in the United States. It is evidently the bee- keeper's paradise. We think that we can do no better for this department, this month, than to extract from some letters on bee-keeping in Southern California which we find in the Ania-ican Bee Journal. A gentleman who signs himself "Amateur" writes: Time has wrought a good many changes Biuce I last wrote you. My attention has been tui'ned a good deal to other things for the last two or three years, so that I have not taken the interest iu my bees that I should have done. But now I am thoroughly settled in my pet business on the far oti' Pacific Coast, and from this "laud of houey," as well as "land of gold," I propose shaking hands again with my brethren, through the columns of our beloved American Bee Journal. The glowing descriptions of this coast as a honey-produciug country, induced me to leave home and friends iu the beautiful Mississippi Valley and seek a home in the mountains of Southern California. There is so much in this country of interest to bee-keepers that I hardly know where to begin. I will, however, begin at the begin- ning and tell something of the history of bees in this State. The first bees brought to California was iu March, 1853, by Mr. Shelton, who bought twelve hives at Aspinwall. These dwindled down to one before swarming season. This one threw off three swarms, two of these were sold in the fall, one at $105, the other at $110. The next lot were imported in 1855. But not until 1857 and 1858 were there many bees brought here. So that by 1860 there were several thousand colonies of bees in this State. In the year 1860 Mr. A. J. Biglow brought from the apiary of Mr. S. B. Parsons, of
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