. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 516 THE AMERICAN BEE MISCELLANEOUS. The Honey Yield, and Taxing Bees in California.—The Semi-Tropic Uali- fornid for August contains the follow- ing items: The honey yield this season through- out California will be tar from en- couraging to our bee-men. These oil years that are so frequent might be largely averted by turning more at- tention to growing certain trees and plants for bee forage. The Supervisors sitting as a Board of Equalization for the County of Los Angeles, refused to lower the valuation as made by the County As- sessor on t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 516 THE AMERICAN BEE MISCELLANEOUS. The Honey Yield, and Taxing Bees in California.—The Semi-Tropic Uali- fornid for August contains the follow- ing items: The honey yield this season through- out California will be tar from en- couraging to our bee-men. These oil years that are so frequent might be largely averted by turning more at- tention to growing certain trees and plants for bee forage. The Supervisors sitting as a Board of Equalization for the County of Los Angeles, refused to lower the valuation as made by the County As- sessor on tlie bees of the county, though some of the owners of bees in the county offer to sell all the bees they have at one-half the assessed value for this year. They are assessed at $3 per hive. Adulteration.—The Bee-Keepers' Ex- change^ for August, has a very strong article on the above subject, from the pen of J. K. Douglass, Neosho, Wis. It is certainly worthy of note that bee* keepers, especially, are unanimous in their condemnation of the frauds which prevail to so great an extent in adulterating honey, as well as other articles of food. We give the last paragraph of the article alluded to, which is as follows : On page 308 of Gleanings for 1SS2, the editor expresses a hope that the price of honey will be so low tliis sea- son that more than usual will be con- sumed, and on page 296 he tells of one way to cheapen its production. I will quote the suggestion for the benefit of those who may not have seen it: •'Pretty soon, and the wax of the world will be gone. What shall we doV I will tell vou if you won't be scared. Por brood' combs use wires and go back to our old paraffine experiments of years ago. Had we only put wires into the frames as we do now,we should liiive succeeded without trouble. Por comb honey we can use a mixture of w:ix and p:\raffine lliatthebees will work out much faster than pure wax; and for our small 4i sections, I think we can manage so tliat sagging
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