1879 



GLEANINGS IX BEE CULTURE. 



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AXOTIIKK C ALIlOiiNIA APIARY. 



fj|IIE Photograph from which the pict- 

 ure was taken was sent us by Mr. John 

 — ' OJtman, Los Angelos, Cal. Ihavebeen 

 unable to get any further particulars in re- 

 gard to it. From the long rows of hives ex- 

 tending away in the distance until they look 

 like mere specks- of white, one can readily 

 imagine that honey must be yielded in great 

 profusion from some source, probably from 

 the mountain sides, whose peaks seem al- 

 most to touch the sky in the distance. If 1 

 am correct, the mountains, as well as valleys, 

 are covered with the wild sage that furnishes 

 the beautiful, clear, aromatic, mountain sage 

 honey. The different altitudes furnish hon- 

 ey at different seasons, thus greatly pro- 

 longing the yield. I should judge that the 

 picture was taken during a yield of honey, 

 from the unconcerned way in winch our 

 friends eat their watermelon, sitting on the 

 top of the hives ; even the little hoy seems 



oblivious of the fact that bees ever sting, 

 especially when one happens to drum his 

 feet idly against the hive he may he sitting 

 on. 



With such a number of hives all of one 

 kind, it would seem that the owner would 

 have been careful to get a good kind to start 

 with, and I should guess by the looks, that 

 he had wisely settled on the time honored 

 Langstroth frame. Where they are piled up 

 to 3 stories in height, does it not seem a pity 

 that the 3 stories were not all made precisely 

 alike, Simplicity style, instead of making 

 each one a size larger than the one below it 

 as shown in the cut V The saving in having 

 just one sized bodies and covers, amino 

 more, in an apiary, is no small item. 



How we would enjoy dropping down on 

 our friends for an hour or two in their wild 

 mountain home, would we not, boys V Do 

 you suppose they would have watermelons 

 enough to go round i 



COGSWELL'S APIARY-, LOS ANGELOS CO., CALIFORNIA. 



With such a multitude of hives, just 

 thinkjtbow much depends upon doing the 

 right thing, instead of tiie wrong one ; upon 

 having a uniformity not only in the size 

 of the hives and surplus boxes, but in your 

 ways of doing things; upon having every- 



thing undt r your thumb, so that there are no 

 lost motions' and no time wasted in delays, 

 hunting for tools, ! rectifying blunders, or 

 anything of that nature. One needs to rec- 

 ognize his own peculiar failings, before he 

 is ready to learn wisdom's ways. 



