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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



California, stayed a year, and then went 

 back to Canada again, He said that this 

 eternal sunshine, day after day, day after 

 day, for months at a time, was too monot- 

 onous for him. He wanted an occasional 

 cloudy day and a thunder storm. During 

 the week that I was in the State there 

 were very few hours in which I was not 

 uncomfortably warm, but it is only fair 

 to say that the weather was unusually 

 hot while I was there — so hot that Mr. 

 Mendelson liad a few c Monies of be -s 



stand at 70 degrees. Some bee-keepers 

 are very delightfully situated in having 

 their homes located in some seashore 

 town, while their apiaries are located on 

 the line of some railroad extending in- 

 land — the radroad running along some 

 valley and the apiaries in tiie canyons of 

 the mountains that skirt the valley. 

 APIARIES MUST BE LOCATED IN THE 

 MOUNTAINS. 

 Very few bee-keepers live where their 

 api tries are located Most of them live 



UlT Ai^iAlU' BtLONGl.VG TO GEO. W. BKODBECK, Los Angeles. 



At the right, not shown in picture, is a big pile of extracted honey in 60-lb. cans, also the cabin 

 that is the home of the helpers during the busy season. 



melt down, or their combs melt down, 

 which is something unusual. There is 

 also a great difference in temperature be- 

 tween the seashore, and even a few miles 

 up among the foothills and the moun- 

 tains. Up in the mountains the mercury 

 may stand at 100 degrees, while only 

 thirty miles away, at the seashore, it will 



in some town, while the apiaries are, 

 from necessity, located in the mountains. 

 The reason is this: The great honey pro- 

 ducing plant of California, corresponding 

 to the white clover of the East, the black 

 sage, flourishes only at a certain altitude. 

 By the way, the sage is a very ordinary 

 looking shrub, perhaps three or four feet 



