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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



J^ov. 18, 



should produce extracted honey ; then 

 admitting that he was a cofnh honey pro- 

 ducer, what else could I do but pick him 

 up? 



Now, Mr. Bevins, I am standing with 

 my foot raised, ready to kick all those S- 

 frame hives into the middle of next week, 

 as soon as you convince me there is 

 something better; that is, afterthe bees 

 have been removed, but excuse me from 

 putting my toe up against them as full 

 of honey as they are now. 



Again, Mr. Bevins leaves us in the 

 dark when he says he prefers 6-inch 

 frames, but does not say whxj ! So Mr. 

 Bevins, rcJiy do you prefer 6-inch frames? 

 and do you use them in the broodcham- 

 bers as well as supers? If not, what 

 size and number in the brood-chambers? 



Mr. Bevins finds fault with my man- 

 ner of ventilation. Perhaps it miy/it be 

 better to raise the front end instead of 

 the back, but I can hardly see why. No, 

 Mr. Bevins, my bees do not loaf around 

 the gap produced by raising the rear end, 

 but, on the contrary, it prevent? loafing. 



If Mr. Bevins gets to sleeping too hard, 

 I hope other bee-keepers will help me 

 poke bim in the ribs once in a while, 

 and get a few of those dreams in print. 



With the editor's permission I would 

 be pleased to open a discussion in a 

 short time, through the American Bee 

 Journal, regarding the ripening of ex- 

 tracted honey ; how many combs are 

 wanted for a colony ; and such like. 



Good-bye, Mr. Bevins. I hope we will 

 hear from you again soon. 



E. B. Tyrrell. 



Genesee Co., Mich., Nov. 1. 



Bee-Keeping in Southern California. 



I sometimes think that to understand 

 how to handle bees a man needs to follow 

 the business in Southern California, at 

 least for one or two years. I thought 

 before coming here that I could do any- 

 thing I pleased with bees; but when I 

 tried my hand with the mongrels, half- 

 wild, half-civilized, and wholly savage, 

 that may be pickt up almost any day of 

 the year in this region, I soon found 

 that they could do as they pleased with 

 me, and have a good supply of energy 

 left over for the next time. 



More or less swarms abscond every 

 favorable season, and many of them 

 cluster on orchard trees, others find 

 lodging places in the rocks in the moun- 

 tains, in any kind of holes in the ground, 

 in boxes of all dfiscriptions that may be 

 lying out in the open air, and in all kinds 

 of buildings. A swarm of apparently 

 pure black bees located iu a rabbit-hole 

 that had been dug down by the side of a 

 well-curb only a few miles from my 

 house. I got a fine colony of pure Ital- 

 ians that had taken possession of a large 

 box-rabbil-trap on a neighbor's ranch. 

 Another one I got that had gone into a 

 little soap-box that lay in a neighbor's 

 door-yard, and that had no bottom, and 

 the top had several holes in it an inch In 

 diameter. Through these the bees 

 workt. There they had lived all of last 

 winter, and sent out a swarm in the 

 spring. 



Sometime in the spring a man who 

 lived about two miles from me came up 

 and told mo that a swarjn of bees had 

 gone into an upper room, over a chicken 

 house, that was used for a kind of lum- 

 ber-room, and he would like if I would 

 go down and gel them. I look an empty 

 hive In my buggy and drove down. The 

 bees had gone under some full sacks and 



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