Gleanings in bee culture . s thenecessary legislation can be obtained, as itinvolves old Mexico. Congress has provid-ed an appropriation of $1,000,000 to providefor Mexicos share of the cost, but the totalcost will be $7,200,000, and the area irrigatedwill be 180,000 acres in New Mexico, old Mex-ico, and Texas. PROJECTS AWAITING FUNDS. Name. Irrigable Acres. Cost, Little Colorado ,000750,,000 35,000 35,000500,000100,000200,000100,000 50,000120,000 84,000,000 Sacramento Valley, California 20,000,0006,000,000 Colorado River, Utah, Col,, 40,000,0004,000,000 12,
Gleanings in bee culture . s thenecessary legislation can be obtained, as itinvolves old Mexico. Congress has provid-ed an appropriation of $1,000,000 to providefor Mexicos share of the cost, but the totalcost will be $7,200,000, and the area irrigatedwill be 180,000 acres in New Mexico, old Mex-ico, and Texas. PROJECTS AWAITING FUNDS. Name. Irrigable Acres. Cost, Little Colorado ,000750,,000 35,000 35,000500,000100,000200,000100,000 50,000120,000 84,000,000 Sacramento Valley, California 20,000,0006,000,000 Colorado River, Utah, Col,, 40,000,0004,000,000 12,000,000 1,. 2,000,000 Walker-Humboldt Rivers, Nevada 15,000,,000 John Day River, Oregon Weber. Utah 10,000,,000 Priest Rapids, Washington., Goshen Hole, Wyoming 2,000,0004,000,000 Total estimated cost 3,270,000 8129,500,000 The Secretary of the Interior, Washington,D. C, has charge of this work, and particu-lars of any of tnese projects may be had bywriting to him. 1907 GLEAM \^GS IN BEE CULTURE. 691. THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING ALL BROOD-COMBS FILLED WITH BROOD AT THEBEGINNING OF THE HARVEST. How are the bees prospering, Mr. Smith ? Seem to be doing fairly well, Mr. Doo-little. Some of my hives have frames inthem which are already nearly solid withbrood. You mean that now and then a colonyhas one or two frames near the center of thebrood-nest in which the brood comes outneaily to the bars of the frames where thebrood is the furthest extended near thesebars. Yes, I guess that would express it find that the queen lays her eggs somewhaton a circular plan rather than in the squareform of the frame, and the eggs the furthestout on this circle of brood in each framecomes very near, or so that the cells contain-ing them touch the wood of the end-bars andthe top and bottom bars of one or two framesin some of my best colonies. Is that good forthe fore part of May? Very good indeed. ••I thought it good; and if I can have thewhole number of frames in the
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