Julv 24, 1902 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



477 



liHliUitr the posl-olIiccacUlressof a eoi'rrsixiiiil- 

 unt. VVu avoid tliut. I)y simply jrivlriu; llu' 

 Couiily anil Stale, which is sullicient for loca- 

 llon.) .So wo will omit the i'oriuspoii<k'iil,'s 

 name as well as post-olllce, ami publish his 

 Idler, beliovint; he will not objeol by siieli 

 use of il IVir the beiiellt of iiiir reii'liTs; — 



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There is a variety of velch hero, the seeii 

 havinjr been lirsl sown about 4 years nixo. It 

 ■t'ontiniies to ^^^r-ow on the same j^round, 1 sup- 

 pose, from st^(Mls that are seatlerecl when the 

 hay is made. 'I'lie bees work very busily ui)oii 

 it fri)m March until 'luly, but not upon the 

 blossoius. At the l)ase of each sli]tule is a lit- 

 tle brown spot or- ^--huHi from whieh a sweet 

 sap is secreted. If the phiut is not visited by 

 bees for a few minutes, enout^h of this sap 

 ■will accumulate to form a dro|i as lart;e as the 

 head of a comuuiu i>iii. The blossoms appear 

 in .lune, but I have never seen a bee upon 

 tlu'in. I thiid; Ihe llower-tnbes are too deep 

 for the liees to reach the neclar. 



The vetch is not plentiful here ; but since 

 the bees work upon it whenever the weather 

 is warm enoujjh for them to lly, if raiseil in 

 lari^-e quantilios, it certainly would be of j^reat 

 importance in trottin*;^ the bees in f^ood condi- 

 tion for the white clover flow, which begins 

 late in .lune. 



The opportunities for bee-keeping here are 

 good. The amount of clover is increasing 

 rapidly ; we have a good home market, and at 

 a fair price. 



A good many bees are kept by farmei's, and 

 •do i|uilewell; but real, live, up-to-date bee- 

 keepers are very few indeed. 



Only I.T miles away are the burnt liLuber 

 regions of the Cascade Mountains, where tire- 

 weed, salal. vine-maple, and other honey- 

 plants abound. The (luality of tlui honey 

 produced there is ot the best, but the terri- 

 tory is unoccupied except by the millions of 

 wild bees that are everywhere found. I visi- 

 ted this region twice last summer, and found 

 the salal yielding nectar in iiuaniities that 

 surpassed even the most e.vtravagant reports 

 •of the basswood. 



Here are thousands of acres of unclaimed 

 land, good mountain water, and only 20 to -.5 

 miles from the railroad — surely, a bee-keep- 

 •ers' paradise, unknown and undeveloped. 



Not many years ago a man kept an apiary 

 ■of ilO colonies in the mountains I'i miles from 

 here, and cleared an average of $000 'per year. 

 This man died, and the apiary passed into the 

 hands of others, who were not bee-keepers, 

 .and the business soon went to ruin. No one 

 has tried bees on an extensive scale there 

 since, but most ot the settlers keep a tew (one 

 man whom I visited had over 40) colonies at a 

 good profit. I am now studying conditions, 

 hives best adapted to moving, location, and 

 ■other matters, with a determination to take 

 "20 colonies there in July and give the pastur- 

 age a trial. I shall employ my spare time in 

 hunting bee-trees, and may decide to locate a 

 homesteatl if I find the enterprise a promising 

 ■one. 



Marion Co., Oreg. 



Unfavorable Weather for Bees. 



The spring and summer, so far, have beeu 

 the most unfavorable for bees of any during 

 my experience — too much wind, cold and wet 

 weather, and now, at ihe end of .lune, with 

 .abundance of flora there is no weather to 

 handle it. The thermometer has been bub- 

 IMing around .")0 degrees nearly all this month ; 

 sometimes below 40, and only a few times 

 ■above (JO, and rain, rain. To produce a good 

 How of nectar the thermometer should regis- 

 ter from SO to DO. and even 100 would not 

 hurt. 



The beos in anticipation ot a good flow 

 made ample preparations for swarming, build- 

 ing queen-cells by the dozen, but have been 

 so retarded in their desires, have swarmed 

 with the least possible outbursts ot sunshine, 

 and in many cases before the swarm could 

 get fairly on wing a dark cloud would obscure 

 the sun, and the air become so cold, and with 

 the strong winds continually blowing, the 



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