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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July J 5. 





APIARY OF MR. WILLIAMSON, OF RIALTO, CAL., UNDER ENGLISH -WALNUT TREES. 



tided the fruit-grower over many hard corner?. 

 The loss sustained by many making purchases 

 without sufficient capital, or a business to back 

 them up. has led many to remark, with bitter- 

 ness, that California is no place for a poor man. 

 Still, there is now and then a poor man here, 

 and there are perhaps a few poor bee-keepers; 

 and the chances for the latter for a good start 

 are better than for the poor man who invests 

 simply in a fruit-ranch. The bee-keeper is 

 reasonably sure of returns from his bees at 

 least three years in five, with at least one heavy 

 yield in that time. 



To give your readers an idea of an embryo 

 California fruit-ranch I obtained a photo of 



over 100 acres of fruits recently planted— peach, 

 apricot, grapes, almonds, and oranges, owned 

 by Mr. Walter Choate, of Bloomington. Cal. 

 For the first few years constant tillage is re- 

 quired; and in due course of time the beautiful 

 orchards will cover the whole area. Mr. 

 Choate. as will be seen in the foreground, wise- 

 ly continues bee culture with the fruit; besides 

 which he is purchasing agent for the Cutting 

 Fruit-cannery, of Colton and San Francisco. 

 Mr. Choate has a very convenient honey-house, 

 and is somewhat in advance of his neighbors in 

 having an air-tight room in the honey-house, 

 in which to store extracting-combs, and where 

 they can be sulphured. The absence of this 



RIVERSIDE AND ITS ORANGE-GROVES. 



