. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 194 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL May fall came up in December and on March 4. No plant in recent years has attracted such widespread intt-r- est as this annual sweet clover. Sev- eral firms are taking advantage of the big demand and high price for seed to plant considerable areas, which will be cultivated' in an effort to increase the yield. A Big Crop According to Californiia Cultivator, Riverside County produced 820 tons of honey in 1920, which was sold for $328,000. Mississippi Organizes The Yazoo and Mississippi Delta Beekeepers' Association is t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 194 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL May fall came up in December and on March 4. No plant in recent years has attracted such widespread intt-r- est as this annual sweet clover. Sev- eral firms are taking advantage of the big demand and high price for seed to plant considerable areas, which will be cultivated' in an effort to increase the yield. A Big Crop According to Californiia Cultivator, Riverside County produced 820 tons of honey in 1920, which was sold for $328,000. Mississippi Organizes The Yazoo and Mississippi Delta Beekeepers' Association is the name of a new organization which recently came to life. W. E. Elam is Presi- dent and Thos. Worthington Vice President. Wild Bees A party of seven from Portland, Ore., and from New York City, called at my home to come to their place about six miles south from me to take a wild swarm of bees which were in an old cedar tree about 8 feet at the roots and about 80 feet up in the tree. The tree was hollow about 65 feet and from 22 to 18 feet of empty space—a fine home for bees. We felled the tree over a canyon and I had an empty hive handy to save the bees. To my surprise, we did not damage the comb or the bees. I took out 232 pounds of honey and comb together, and about the biggest bee family I eveir took out from the wilds. I put them in an attic, gave them 10 frames of drawn comb and fed back about 39 pounds of the honey. They are building comb right now as I feed them. They are the leather colored Italian. The bees have been over 11 years in that tree, and as healthy as any swarm could be. Geo. Jenison. Oregon City, Ore. Minnesota Rears The Bee Division at the University of Minnesota is rearing queens for Minnesota beekeepers in an effort to improve the stock of the State. Not more than five queens are sold to one beekeeper, and only one tested queen is sold to an individual. Time of de- livery and prices at which they may be had, may be obtained from Francis Jager
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