.lANUAKY 15, 1915 



BEEKEEPING IN CALIFOMNIA 



P. C. Claadwiel 



In the editorial columns there 

 appeared a word of caution to 

 would-be inventors of new hives 

 and fixtures. The warning is doubt- 

 less timely ; but all we now liave we 

 owe to the dreams of enthusiasts 

 and the experiments of the dream- 

 ers. There are many thing's yet to come in 

 the advancement of our industry, and it 

 would be far better to disappoint than to 

 discouraire the good that comes from them. 



If we are all successful in producing a 

 crop of honey each j'ear, we should fail 

 from overproduction. Did you ever stop to 

 consider what would happen if it were pos- 

 sible to pay every laborer in the United 

 States ten dollars per day for thirty days to 

 cease labor? The nation would starve to 

 death. If we fail to get a crop, there is 

 always some other place to till the place we 

 leave. If some other place fails we shall 

 ofttimes be benefited by their failure. So 

 the world goes. Production is based on 

 ups and downs, in a give-and-take manner. 



With the president of our State Associa- 

 tion, as well as a majority of the executive 

 board in the North, a new era has begun in 

 our State Association. I am of the opinion 

 it will result in a much more healthy condi- 

 tion of affairs. The fact that it will elim- 

 inate the petty politics which has been far 

 too prevalent in the South is worthy of 

 consideration. In Prof. Willis Lynch, Harry 

 K. Hill, and J. G. Gilstrap we have a strong 

 trio to govern the body. That Prof. Lynch 

 as president will be the strongest and most 

 efficient man for the place that we have had 

 in recent j'ears is well known. He is a 

 scholar, gentleman, and a man of wide ex- 

 perience and travel, with a most pleasing 

 personality and kindly disposition, and en- 

 joys the confidence of all. M. H. Mendle- 

 son deserves thanks for his unrelenting 

 fight for the North. 



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Wesley Foster speaks of the prohibition 

 amendment carrying in Colorado. Well, it 

 did not carry in California by a great many 

 thousand. I hardly thought it would, on 

 account of the tremendous innnence the 

 gi'ape industry gave the liquor men in fight- 

 ing the amendment. If it had been only a 



question of killing the saloon alone it would 

 have carried handsomely. Now the grapemen 

 are fearing the result of another election 

 in 1916, and are asking that the saloon men 

 get out from behind them. I could stand it 

 all pretty well as to that part ; but when 

 San Francisco voted three to one to defeat 

 the red-light abatement law my shame for 

 tliat city was complete. The loyal support 

 of the rest of the State, however, overcame 

 tlie result in San Francisco. San Diego 

 voted three to one for the law, thanks to her 

 good people. We are inviting the world to 

 the two great fairs that are to be held at 

 these cities. Our sons and daughters are 

 invited to come to a city whose moral test 

 has just been given. Shame, for the show- 

 ing of San Francisco ! 

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A movement has been started in San 

 Francisco to divide the State into two parts 

 — the southern part to include the counties 

 of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, 

 San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, San 

 Diego, and Imperial. A- division has been 

 talked of before in the South, due to the 

 impression that the southern half of the 

 State is paying an unjust proportion of the 

 State tax. This time the movement has start- 

 ed in the North, due to great dissatisfaction 

 on moral lines. The North (principally San 

 Francisco) is angry because the southern 

 half voted the red-light extinguisher amend- 

 ment to the constitution on them, besides 

 giving them an uncomfortable feeling on 

 the prohibition question. In the South there 

 is a feeling of as deep dissatisfaction over 

 the showing of the North on these lines. 

 So in common they have a feeling of desir- 

 ing to eliminate each other. If the question 

 should be submitted to a referendum I 

 should not be the least surprised to see the 

 sepai-ation come about. Should it come 

 about it would leave almost the entire sage- 

 producing section in what would be known 

 as Southern California, while the only re- 

 gion producing alfalfa honey would be in 

 Imperial County. The South would be, in 

 my opinion, the gainer in this line, for prac- 

 tically all sage honey would come from the 

 southern section, and would soon be known 

 to be the only sage-producing State. With 

 the grape industry eliminated there is no 

 doubt that Southern California would be a 

 dry State. 



