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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 7, 19C4. 



fornia would to-day rule the price of honey in 

 the West and figure in the market of the , 

 world. 



I referred to the fact that the American peo- 

 ple were great for independence and a home 

 of their own, and tliat the government en- 

 couraged it by giving each a farm of 100 acres, 

 providing they live on and improve it for 5 

 years; and said that thousands of the most 

 enterprising young men, the very llower of 

 the East, had come West to get free homes, 

 and grow up with the eountrj', nearly all leav- 

 ing their " best girls " behind, tilling the West 

 with bachelors, and the East with maids and 

 widows. Fully a quarter of the businessmen, 

 one-third of the bee-keepers and farmers, and 

 over two-thirds of the mining men, are single. 

 I said that wages for assistant housekeepers 

 was many times greater than that of the East, 

 and that there was a great demand, and that a 

 car-load could be placed in our little valley, 

 and over 500 in the capital of Arizona, in the 

 best of families. I advised emigration, and 

 those of limited means to fill positions of 

 trust and honor until they could egtablish a 

 home of their own. The Associated Press, by 

 some means unknown to me, got hold of my 

 letter, and thinking they had received a new 

 revelation heralded it over the wires to nearly 

 ever city in the United States. Mr. York re- 

 ceived the electric current from Richmond, 

 Va., and copied it, but seems to think the bet- 

 ter class will prefer to remain in the East and 

 be old maids, rather than be " peddled out " 

 to the Western bee-keepers, as he calls it. He 

 forgot that it is their brothers, cousins, and 

 old schoolmates, that were attracted west- 

 ward and have opened up a vast empire, and 

 with the Government aid in storing water, 

 and the arrival of the ladies, the arid West 

 will be a land of happiness, milk and honey. 

 Chicago being the great supply market for 

 this new empire, Mr. York should have an 

 eye on this rapidly growing section, from 

 which he must expect his largest increase in 

 business. 



My second wife took her first ride on the 

 cars, and that all alone, when she came to 

 marry a busy Arizona bee-keeper, leaving her 

 old homestead, with a 15-room mansion, in 

 Pennsylvania, and doesn't consider she was 

 "peddled out,'' as Mr. York calls it. 



B. A. Hadsell. 



Maricopa Co., Ariz., Dec. 5. 



[Well, Mr. Hadsell, you'll have to settle 

 this with Miss Wilson, and not with us. She 

 it was who suggested the " peddling-out '' 

 business. 



Y'ou surely have a great country, where you 

 live, and many another lonesome Eastern girl 

 might do well to take a final trip down your 

 way, and " double up " with your hustling, 

 get-there bee-keepers and ranchers. — Edi- 

 tor.] 



Ventilation of hives. 



I don't know whether this will be timely or 

 not. My soured honey, page TSH, tempts me 

 to say a few words on ventilation. I mean by 

 this the size of the hive-entrance, for I be- 

 lieve the bees know how to use the air if they 

 can get it, and do not need any help in that 

 line. 



My mind was busy looking for light on the 

 question of honey souring inside of the hive, 

 and when Dr. Miller said his hive-entrances 

 at times were two inches high, and the full 

 width of the hive, I concluded that it was 

 sun-up at least. 



When a bee-keeper with numerous hives to 

 manipulate catches an idea he has the chance 

 to verify it, and if he has everything about his 

 bee-work, even to the smallest details, down 

 in black and white in a book, as he should 

 have, it is still easier. Now I can take my 

 book, go into the bee-yard, and come very 

 near proving a i)oint to my own satisfaction. 

 I notice that the hive-entrance, and the ac- 

 count of the past season's work, tally to a dot ; 

 where one is small so is the other. All bees 

 are not alike, though ; to my mind they show 

 as many traits and characteristics as so many 

 people would. One colony will carry in more 

 nectar than they can lake care of. Supiposing 

 in each case they lack ventilation, the conse- 

 ciuence is a poor lot of honey. Another will 



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