. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mar. 21, 1907 American lU^e Journal pay the carfare ($470) for each of the importers. Surely, if one had much of such sweets, and could realize as well on all of it as did those early bee-en- thusiasts, he would have something better than a gold-mine. The price mentioned was better, however, than that obtained in San Jose for the first crop of honey produced in the State, so far as known. One pioneer bee- keeper had 400 pounds of box honey in 1856, which was sold for from $ to $ per pound. That price was not bad, either; (in lieu of $ I th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mar. 21, 1907 American lU^e Journal pay the carfare ($470) for each of the importers. Surely, if one had much of such sweets, and could realize as well on all of it as did those early bee-en- thusiasts, he would have something better than a gold-mine. The price mentioned was better, however, than that obtained in San Jose for the first crop of honey produced in the State, so far as known. One pioneer bee- keeper had 400 pounds of box honey in 1856, which was sold for from $ to $ per pound. That price was not bad, either; (in lieu of $ I think I would be satisfied with the $ figure.) The Coming Honey Season What will the crop be? I don't know; better ask the Man in the Moon. No one knows what a crop will be several months ahead in California, any more than lu- can tell elsewhere. One thing, everything is very favor- able for an abundant harvest. A suc- cession of cool nl^^hts may retard nec- tar-secretion in tlie flowers, so that the honey output will be small. We can not bank upon it, so we shall wait and see. That is a hard thing to speak of, though nearly all of us drop into talk- Bee-Keepino: at Berkeley I learn that Ralph Benton is giving a series of lectures at the University of California upon bee-keeping. The lec- tures are given Saturday afternoons at Berkeley, and are free to all who may this paragraph I may remark that it was hoped for a long time that the California University would call Prof. A. J. Cook to the Chairof Entomology. I trust it will do so. Then what a strong showing bee-cultural this al- ready prominent seat of learning will make ! " Songs of ;—This is a t)eaii tiful l(J-page-an(]-cover pamphlet, 0x0 inches in size, coDtalning 10 bee-songs—words and music—all the songs so far written specially for bee-keepers, we l>elieve. It is nice, as well as convenient, to have these songs all in one binding. Every twe-keepers' organiza- tion should have copies for use a
Size: 2014px × 1241px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectbees, bookyear1861
