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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15. 



is still planting more this spring. North Bass 

 Island— two miles north of the former— has 600 

 acres, and is also noted for its fine fruit without 

 bees. The Old Hen Island is four miles north 

 of North Bass, six miles west from Pelee 

 Island, and much further from the main shore 

 or any other place where bees are kept. It has 

 about 13 acres. A neighbor was telling me 

 several days ago about taking a little excur- 

 sion party there last summer, and incidentally 

 remarked that there were large quantities of 

 the finest and largest strawberries grown there 

 that he ever saw. Other fruits have been lately 

 planted there, but I don't know whether they 

 are bearing or not. I will investigate this 

 summer. 

 Pelee Island. Ont., Canada. 



BAMBLE 108. 



claremont; peof. cook and his neav woek 

 at the college. 



A very fertile district surrounds Ontario, and 

 its productiveness is seen not only in fruits and 

 beets, but small fruits do equally well. There 

 was grown, on two-fifths of an acre of land, 

 .5333 boxes of strawberries, which were sold for 

 $365, or at the rate of $900 per acre. The potato- 



loads of lumber were immediately hauled on, 

 hammers and saws resounded, and at nightfall 

 the builder gathered his family around the 

 new fireside in his new house. Of course, the 

 house was not very pretentious. The rooms 

 were not numerous, but were elegantly frescoed 

 with illustrated newspapers. If the proper 

 enjoyment could not be found in the house it 

 could be found outdoors, for at that season 

 rains do not interfere, and such great whiffs 

 of climate a person can here get into his sys- 

 tem! 



A pleasant ride of four miles through more or 

 less orange-groves landed us in Claremont, 

 and in front of the college buildings where 

 Prof. A. J. Cook now spends the most of his 

 time imparting knowledge to the rising genera- 

 tion. Claremont is a brand-new town, only a 

 few miles from Pomona and the college bear- 

 ing the name "Pomona College." It sort o' 

 blankets Claremont, and its name is not so 

 prominent as it deserves. The town now con- 

 sists of magnificent distances, with now and 

 then a house upon what will eventually turn 

 out to be a street-corner. There is, therefore, 

 not much regularity to the town, and the next 

 lot to a fine residence we find in its primitive 

 condition of brush in variety, greasewood pre- 

 dominating. The college is embraced in two 



I'OAIONA COLLEGE AT CLAREMONT; I'liOF. COOK'S NEW HOME. 



grower is also in his proper element here, for 

 two crops can be taken from the soil each year. 

 An Eastern man arrived, bought some land, or, 

 rather, bargained for it, and raised enough 

 potatoes in one year to pay for it. Of course, 

 the prices were happily in favor of the pro- 

 ducer. 



This is also a location noted for rapid house- 

 building. A gentleman purchased a small 

 ranch, upon which there was a field of barley. 

 He gave notice to the man who owned the bar- 

 ley that a certain portion of it must be cut 

 early the next morning. The barley was cut. 



buildings— the Sumner Hall and the Cyrus 

 Holmes, Jr., Hall. The latter is the larger of 

 the two buildings, and contains the classrooms, 

 chapel, museum, and various other rooms. I 

 brought the camera to bear upon the buildings, 

 and am sure the readers of Gleanings will be 

 interested to see a portion of Prof. Cook's new 

 home. 



The Sumner Hall was erected for a hotel; 

 but the boom dropped out of the hotel scheme; 

 and the college scheme, being the more healthy 

 of the two, the building was absorbed, and is 

 used exclusively for the ladies. The building 



