1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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iNoTES OF Travel 



WESTERN COLORADO; IRRIGATION SCHEMES; 

 POSSIBILITY OF RECLAIMING LANDS NOW 

 DESERT, THROUGH STATE AND GOVERN- 

 MENT aid; bee-keeping on the mesas; 



SWEET CLOVER ON ALKALI LANDS; WEST- 

 ERN COLORADO AS A BEE COUNTRY. 



Leaving- Salt Lake City we take the train 

 for Grand Junction. I will not stop to say 

 tnuch about the beautiful scenery — scenery 

 that can never be adequately represented 

 with pen or camera. I will only state that 

 the beautiful panoramic changes as one 

 goes throug-h those canyons and gorg^es is 

 enough to lill him with wonderment at the 

 awful upheaval of nature that must have 

 taken place some time, nobody knows when. 



Arriving at Grand Junction we naturally 

 turn our thoughts toward the Hai-dy Broth- 

 ers, who seem to be the headquarters for 

 bee-keepers' supplies. As this part of the 

 trip was along at the tail end of my jour- 

 ney, I found myself greatly handicapped 

 for want of time. But I stopped long 



enough to learn that there were thousands 

 and thousands of acres of good land that 

 will be irrigated, and which will grow al- 

 falfa. While the vicinity had all the bee- 

 keepers it could possibly support at the 

 time of my visit, yet the time will doubtless 

 come — yes, is sure to come — when the terri- 

 tory growing alfalfa will be greatly in- 

 creased; then there will be more bee-kee)i- 

 ers to find homes, health, and life itself. 

 But the time has not yet come. But one of 

 the leading bee-keepers of Colorado lives in 

 the vicinity of Grand Junction. He is 

 known there as Mr. J. U. Harris, ex-pre-;- 

 ident of the Colorado State Bee-keeper n' 

 Association. He is not only an expert bee- 

 keeper but a man of affairs, and one con- 

 cerning whom we shall hear more later. 



Again we take the train, going throuj 'i 

 more mountain scenery — more awful u, ■ 

 heavals of granite — and finally land ;t 

 Delta, another great bee-keeping center, 

 one of the very best I have ever visited; bu;,. 

 like Grand Junction, its territory for avail- 

 able bee-keeping has long since been taken 

 up, and there will not be more until the 

 State and general government has put iu 

 some gigantic irrigation schemes now un- 

 der consideration. At the time of my visit 

 it was reported to me that there were some- 

 thing like 200,000 acres that would be 

 available for cultivation. Out of this num- 

 ber about 135,000 acres was deeded land. 



ONE OF JOHN A. HARRIS' OUT-APIA KIFS, DELTA, COL. 



