1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



769 



probably be astonished if he could know 

 the actual amount of wax and money wast- 

 ed in throwing old comb away, or even in 

 depending- entirely upon solar extractors. 

 The subject is also a treacherous one. 

 Plans that in theory seem perfect are very 

 apt to have some serious defect in actual 

 practice. On the other hand, some people 

 may scoff at a method in theory, which, 

 when the experiment is made, may prove 

 very satisfactory. Therefore if there are 

 those who feel inclined to answer this edi- 

 torial we would ask that they give our 

 method a most careful test along with their 

 own or some other method before they con- 

 demn it. 



SAN FRANCISCO ; BEE-KERPING IN SUTTER 

 CO., CAL. ; CARPET GRASS; PLACER MIN- 

 ING, AND ITS EFFECTS ON AGRICULTURE; 

 HOW THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF LAND 

 HAVE BEEN RUINED TO SATISFY THE 

 GREED FOR GOLD. 



Bidding our friend I. D. Flory good by I 

 took the train for San Francisco, the far- 

 famed city of the Golden Gate, situated on 

 the beautiful Bay of San Francisco. I had 

 heard of the wickedness of that great city, 

 but I was not prepared to see such a" wide- 



open town." Prostitutes, I was told, ply 

 their vocation on some of the principal 

 streets ; gambling goes right on in plain 

 sight, apparently without let or hindrance. 

 Saloons — why, they are thicker on the prin- 

 cipal business streets than I ever saw else- 

 where, and I have been in all the large 

 cities of the United States. Suicides, I un- 

 derstand, are more frequent there than in 

 any other city in the world except Paris. 



But not all is bad in San Francisco, by 

 any means. Some of the finest churches 

 anywhere can be seen within a short dis- 

 tance from these gilded places of iniquity. 

 Good people there are in large numbers, 

 and the time will come — is sure to come — 

 when they will be in the majority, and the 

 political forces that now rule and make the 

 town "wide open" will be put down, and 

 the city, with its commercial advantages, 

 will indeed become the gateway of the world. 



The climate, while it is a little cool, is 

 delightful and bracing ; and one feels a 

 thrill of invigoration after leaving the hot 

 desert lands of the interior of the State. 



I met two or three bee-keepers, and just 

 missed seeing T. G. Newman, formerly ed- 

 itor of the American Bee Journal, and 

 General Manager of the National Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association. I had a number of little 

 chats with G. G. Wickson, of G. G. Wick- 

 son 8l Co., the supply dealers of San Fran- 

 cisco. Mr. Wickson has an extensive house- 

 apiary a few miles from the city. This I 

 did not see. 



I next went northward to Sacramento, 

 and met Mr. A. S. Hopkins, the local sup- 

 ply dealer, stopping for a few hours only. 

 Then I went a little further north to Nico- 

 laus, where are located the Wessing Broth- 



THE CARPI'yr GRASS THAT VIKLDS SO MUCH FINE HONFV IX XOKIH-CFNTRAL C ALT'^-Oi'NIA. 



