422 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Fruit Growers Alive to the Importance of the Honey-Bee. 



A few years ago we read much of the war hke attitude between 

 l)ee-men and fruit growers. The latter charged the honey-bee of 

 doing them all kinds of damage. Later that antagonism was not so 

 marked, and today they are beginning to call for the bee. 



A short time ago a company was organized, with headquarters 

 in Detroit, to develop a large tract of land in Northwestern Michi- 

 gan, setting it to fruit. I was appealed to as to how they could 

 get bees to pollonize the fruit. These men knew fruit culture but 

 knew nothing of the bee other than that its work was essential to 

 their best interests. 



I am now in correspondence with a large fruit grower, one who 

 has 170 acres of fruit as a part of a 500-acre farm. This man would 

 like to get a start in bees and wants to find some capable man or 

 woman to build up an apiary and handle it for him. Sorry to say 

 that I couldn't name that man or woman at this time. 



The Cuba A'C-zvs, published at Havana, Cuba, had an item in its 

 October 12th issue, naming a fruit grower of Cuba who wanted to 

 find some one who could handle some bees for hini. His prime 

 object in having the bees was not the honey but the fruit-crop the 

 bees made possible. 



All of which goes to show that there is a field for some young 

 man, or several for that matter, to take up the study of bee-culture 

 with a view to establishing apiaries for fruit growers who want the 

 bees but don't know how to go about it to get them and keep them 

 after they do get them. — E. B. T. 



How Will This Affect the Western Bee-Man? 



The Nortli J Vest Forum, published at North Yakima. Washing- 

 ton, recently stated that "H. Stanley Cofifin, who returned Sunday 

 from Twin Falls, Idaho, says that many farmers are plowing up their 

 alfalfa fields and putting in grain. He says they raise about 60 

 bushels of wheat to the acre for three years on the alfalfa land, 

 which pays them better than the hay crop.'' 



In a private letter S. King Clover, of JMabton, Washington, sa)'S 

 Mr. Coffin is a member of the firm of Coffin Bros., merchants, and is 

 heavily interested in the sheep business. Mr. Clover says this plow- 

 ing up of alfalfa will be hard on the bee-keeper. 



Mr. Clover sends me a clipping which states that the "Secretary 

 of the Interior has authorized the Director of the Reclamation Ser- 

 vice to enter into an agreement with the land owners in west 

 extension of the Umatilla irrigation project, Oregon, whereby they 

 are to convey to the United States certain strips and parcels of land 

 to be utilized for the establishment and maintainance of plantations 



