1894 



• GLEANINGS IN HEE CULTURE. 



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READY TO START. 



turns to other avenues. The "Industrial Ar- 

 my " has taken several hundred laborers from 

 our State; but bee-keepers do not swarm out in 

 that way, even if they are this year accustomed 

 to see starvation swarms. 



Just now the desert has an attraction for the 

 adventurous ; and the search for the yellow 

 metal is entered into with zest by some of our 

 well-known bee-keepers. Mr. Segars, an old- 

 time bee-keeper, is interested in this line: and 

 Samuel Ferguson has a share in the Red Rock 

 gold-mine, and does the teaming for the compa- 

 ny. From late reports from the mining region. 



the gold business is on a boom — a nugget weigh- 

 ing ~'2 ounces having been found. 



Mr. George Ferguson and his family are all 

 away to the San Bernardino Mountains, work- 

 ing another gold-mine. So it turns out with 

 bee-keepers this year. The little or much feed- 

 ing necessary does not hold the bee-keeper leng, 

 and he is away. 



With dreary prospects before us. neighbor 

 Wilder and I discussed the situation in its vari- 

 ous aspects. The fruit business seemed alto- 

 gether too tame and domestic-like; the gold- 

 hunting somewhat uncertain and full of hard- 



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