1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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as glucose, he said, "Oh, no! they are quite dif- 

 ferent;" and, furthermore, that the change to 

 invert sugar did not make honey. All bee-naen 

 are familiar with the fact that cane sugar forms 

 crystals, while honey only caiulies, and this 

 alone would distinguish the two. 



Look here, old friend. Do you remember 

 when you and others went for me so vehement- 

 ly just because I recommended using grape 

 sugar to start brood -rearing? And you even 

 got good father Langstroth to assist in laboring 

 with me. because the (fppcora/icc of the thing 

 might endanger our whole industry; and out of 

 respect to my many good kind friends I dropped 

 the matter, on the principle that, " If meat 

 maketh my brother to offend, I will eat no 

 meat," etc" Which will damage the reputa- 

 tion of our industry more — what I proposed 

 then, or sentiments in the lines of your last par- 

 agraph on page 11 ?] A. I. R. 



RAMBLE 75. 



written to the Rambler about coming to Cali- 

 fornia must come, let them give Ontario a trial. 

 They will find a friendly and enterprising peo- 

 ple; and though they do not believe in annex- 

 ing Canada to Uncle Sam's ranch, Canadians 



BEET - KOOT SUC4AR - FAf'TORY ; SOWING THE 

 WIND AND REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. 



Not many months ago the Rambler found 

 himself with a roistering crowd of eleven car- 

 loads of adult people on the way to Ontario and 

 Chino iChccno). This was a local political 

 demonstration; and Ontario, where most of the 

 crowd stopped, was suiprised at the size of the 

 turnout. Of all the countiies for a good- 

 natured, happy feeling and peaceable crowd. 

 South California takes the lead; and one reason 

 for it is the absence of the shillalah element. 



HORSE-CARS IX ONTARIO. 



Ontario is a thriving fruit-growing town, 

 almost in the shadow of the Sierra Madre 

 Mountains; and. as the name signi- 

 fies, it is named from the province 

 Ontario. Canada, and a good share of 

 the people are from that wintry 

 country. The traveler can see but -./ 



few residences; but by a little look- _^.y 



ing for them they are found embow- .' 



ered in luxurious growths of orange, 

 pepper, ornamental trees and roses, 

 while now and then a well-kept 

 hedge adds variety to the surround- 

 ings. As Magnolia Avenue is the 

 boast of Riverside, so Euclid Avenue 

 is the pride of Ontaiio. and continues 

 seven miles directly up against the 

 base of the San Antonio Mountain. 

 From Ontario the avenue follows a 

 stiff incline, and the two mules that 

 propel the car have a steady hard 

 pull up; but from the way they wag 

 their long ears it is fun they enjoy 

 going down. They are mounted on 

 a si)ecial low truck at the rear of the 

 car, and ride down with the rest of 

 the donkeys that are in the car 

 ahead, while gravity is the propelling force. 



Altogether, Ontario is a quiet, delightful 

 town; and if some of those Canadians who have 



are anne.xing themselves by the thousand every 

 year. 



A great impetus to the prosperity of this lo- 

 cality was the building of one of the (if not the) 

 largest beet-sugar factories in the country. 

 The Chino ranch, of about .50,000 acres in the 

 immediate vicinity of Ontario, is admirably 

 adapted to the cultivation of the sugar 

 beet. Much of the land is termed 

 moist, for water can be obtained by 

 digging a few feet, and the expense of 

 irrigation is dispensed with. In the 

 season just past, 4000 acres were plant- 

 ed to beets, and the average yield is 25 

 tons to the acre, and the value is ac- 

 cording to the percentage of sugar the 

 beets will yield per ton, which is about 

 1.5 per cent, making the beets worth 

 $4.27 per ton. The amount of sugar 

 made during the season just closed is 

 8,000,000 lbs. The greatest product in 

 one single day during the height of the season 

 was S8 tons of sugar, which gives some idea of 

 the capacity of the factory; and. though made 

 on a grand scale, and able to chew up and di- 



gest an immense amount of vegetables, still 

 this factory would be inadequate to work up 

 all the beets that can be raised here, and no 



