Feb. 21. 191 1 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



125 



•etc. The orange trees will soon be in 

 their full glory, and it is a sight to 

 delight one's heart to see the bright- 

 colored fruit between the dark green 

 foliage, tile trees covered with the fra- 

 grant blossoms, and innumerable hum- 

 ming bees collecting the sweet nectar. 

 Almonds, peaches, apricots, and other 

 fruit-trees will also soon be in bloom, 

 besides alfilaria and numberless wild 

 (lowers. 



Bees are building up very nicely to 

 be ready for the main honey-flow from 

 the far-famed black and white sage 

 honey, which begins in April in good 

 seasons, and lasts until about the mid- 

 dle of July. After this sumac, wild 

 buckwheat, and other nectar-yielders 

 continue till October. 



We have had three nice rains this 

 season, and it begins to look as if the 

 more favorable conditions were return- 

 ing again. L,. Marno. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Jan. 24. 



Bees Did Pooply. 



The bees did poorly in this locality 

 the past season. I did not get any 

 swarms, and hardly secured honey 

 enough for winter stores. 



This is my second year of bee-keep- 

 ing, and I have five colonies now 

 which I transferred into new hives. 

 D. E. Evens. 



Otoe Co., Nebr., Jan. 29. 



Ppospeets Good for the Coming 

 Season. 



The past season was a bad one for 

 the apiaries in this State. Most of 

 them are left in a mixt-up condition ; 

 many are diseased, nearly all are re- 

 duced in number of colonies, and there 

 must be many that have been wiped 

 out of existence. 



From my 100 colonies, spring count. 

 I increast to over 130, extracted 6,000 

 pounds of very fine sage and buck- 

 wheat honey, and rendered over 100 

 pounds of wax. I have sold but little 

 of the honey, and I shall make the wax 

 into foundation. 



The prospects for the coming season 

 are much more favorable than they 

 have been for three years, and if the 

 conditions continue \here will be a rich 

 harvest for the bees. Yesterday I went 

 to ray out-apiary, some 25 miles from 

 the city, to "size up" the situation 

 as to the prospects, and came away in 

 good spirits, altho I got a good soak- 

 ing before returning. Last year we 

 had 4 57/100 inches of rain ; this year 

 to date we have had 9 inches, and it all 



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