1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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quarters. Thej' stung us; they tried to 

 drive us oflf; but still we pressed on. So 

 persistent were they that I found it exceed- 

 ingly difficult to get a snapshot. I fired 

 one off, and then retreated in haste. But 

 this view was too poor to reproduce. 



Our next stop was at the home of Mr. 

 G. B. Woodbury. This gentleman is also 

 an extensive fruit-grower. He had several 

 large orange-groves as well as other kinds 

 of fruit on his ranch. He had recently tak- 

 en up bee-keeping, and the apiary had some- 

 thing of the esthetic in its appearance, and, 

 indeed, it was in marked contrast with 

 some of the yards I had seen before. The 

 honey-house vvas neatly painted, the hives 

 were new and modern, and also painted. 

 No. 1, Fig. 2, shows Mr. Woodbury himself, 

 standing by the side of one of his hives. 

 No. 2 shows Mr. Bennett standing in the 

 door of the honey-house. 



I ran up on the side-hill to get a good 

 view of the yard. While setting up the 

 camera I had my first experience with a 

 rattlesnake, or what I thought to be such. 

 I had been cautioned, as I went up on those 

 side-hills, to look out for those reptiles; for 

 a tenderfoot will be quite sure to blunder 

 on them unless properly warned. Sudden- 

 ly I heard a peculiar kind of b-z-z-z-z. I 

 had never heard the sound of the rattlers; 

 but as I had been told to run or get out of 

 the way if I should hear any peculiar 



sound of that kind, I grabbed up my cam- 

 era and made a lunge. 



"What," said Mr. Woodbury, "rat 

 tiers?" 



"I don't know," I said in breathless 

 haste; " but come up and look." 



" What was it you heard ? " he said. 



" Thei-e! listen! " 



He began to smile, and said, " Why, that 

 is a beetle. Don't you have them out east?" 



I resumed taking my pictures, without 

 au}' more comments, and the result is shown 

 in 2 ; another view, lower down, at 3, and, 

 last of all, a view showing Mr. Bennett 

 with his light gauz3' bee- veil on by the side 

 of one of Mr. Woodbury's hives. 



Another yard at which we stopped was 

 one belonging to John McClure, at Burbank, 

 or near there. He had, all told, some 500 

 colonies in three different locations. In No. 

 2, Fig. 1, is shown one of these apiaries. It 

 is on the side of the mountain, near the edge 

 of an enormous raisin vineyard, which we 

 were almost half an hour in driving through 

 to get to the yard. The hives were of the 

 peculiar California style, not built for beau- 

 ty. A nearer view of the extracting-house 

 and of the large honey-tanks is shown in 

 No. 4. The wheelbarrow for carr3'ing in 

 the combs stands in the foreground. The 

 extracting-house in this case is on the side- 

 hill, and from the bottom of it runs a spout 

 about 3 inches in diameter, at the top of 



FIG. 1. — THE HITCHINGS AND M'CLUKE APIAKIKS AND HONEY-TANKS. 



