. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 204 July, 1912. Amc>rican Bac Jonrn^ the mining camps of Rico, Telluride and Silverton. Montezuma county has not a single specialist bee-keeper. Mr. G. D. Taylor has 30 colonies, a bunch of sheep, 30 acres of land, and is raising some alfalfa and potatoes. With the county inspection work he will be busy. Mr. Wilkerson is a farmer neighbor of Mr. Taylor's, and has about colonies, all in good hives. Mr. Frank Taylor has about i'j colonies of bees, and his time is taken up principally with his ranch. Mrs. Taylor plans to take charge of the bees th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 204 July, 1912. Amc>rican Bac Jonrn^ the mining camps of Rico, Telluride and Silverton. Montezuma county has not a single specialist bee-keeper. Mr. G. D. Taylor has 30 colonies, a bunch of sheep, 30 acres of land, and is raising some alfalfa and potatoes. With the county inspection work he will be busy. Mr. Wilkerson is a farmer neighbor of Mr. Taylor's, and has about colonies, all in good hives. Mr. Frank Taylor has about i'j colonies of bees, and his time is taken up principally with his ranch. Mrs. Taylor plans to take charge of the bees the coming year. At Mancos, 20 miles from Cortez, the remnants of Mrs. A. J. Barber's apiaries are in the hands of T. W. Wattles. Foul brood has decimated the colonies until there are less than 20 left. Mr. H. M. Barber lives about 4 miles from Mancos, and has some bees which he desires to increase. Mr. Barber is anxious for effective inspection and cleaning up. I met Mrs. Barber's son, and he said that his mother used to sell 20,000 pounds of honey nearly every year. This is still a new country and hard to reach, but it is bound to come to the front for it is blessed with bound- less latent possibilities. A need of Montezuma county is for a bee-keepers' institute, where the ad- vantages of the movable-comb hive will be shown. Demonstrations in nailing up hives, frames, supers, put- ting up sections and startering sections and frames should be included in the program. The prevention of swarm- ing will need explaining, and the grad- ing and packing of honey should be taken up. If interest can be aroused, such a meeting will be held as soon as can be arranged. The Montrose Meeting Montrose county, in Colorado, is a comb-honey county. I do not know of a bee-man who extracts as a business. Delta county, on the north, has on the contrary, quite a number of extracted- honey men. The tendency, however, IS strongly toward comb-honey pro- duction. Mr. R. W. Ensley, who owns and operates t
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