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with his neighbors. He soothes over their 

 pains from slings with liberal doses of hon- 

 63'. He says, •' As the hair cf the dog is 

 gocd for the bite, so is honey good for the 

 stings." He has made hiin»elf so useful to 

 his orchard neighbors, th;:t. like his bees, 

 he is told to help himself to all ihe fruit he 

 wants. 



In the view Mr. Lane is seated on a hive 

 in his working suit. Just now he is mourn- 

 ing the loss ( f his helper in his bee work. 

 His gccd wife has "gone before," leaving 

 him alone with two babes to care for. We 

 assured him that he had the sympathy of 

 all good bee keeper friends, and then moved 

 on toward Sacramento. 



[The facts presented are valuable, as 

 they are additional proof that there are up- 

 to-date fruit-men who recognize the valuable 

 work performed by ihe bees in fertilizing 

 their fruit- blossoms. It is only ignorance 

 and prejudice on the part of the fruit men, 

 coupled with a lack of tact, sometimes, on 

 the part cf the bee leeper, that causes trou- 

 ble between the interests. The region of 

 the Sacramento Valley is not very far frcm 

 a region furtl er south where there has been 

 a great deal of trouble between the bee- 

 keepers and the fruit-men — not because 

 there was any lack of tact on the part of 

 the bee-keepers, but because the bees were 



suspected of being the sole means of spt end- 

 ing pear blight. Some late dcvelopinents 

 go to show that they are not, and that the 

 bees do more gcod than harm. — Ed. ] 



AN UP-TO-DATE BEE-KEEPER IN NEVADA. 



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BY SOJOURNER. 



This is one of the out apiaries of J. F. 

 Aitken, near Reno, Nevada. The apiary 

 is as it was put in winter quarters for 1903. 

 Mr. Aitken is a very progressive apiarist, 

 and has every thing up to date. At his 

 apiaries I saw many of the A. I Root goods. 

 His hives are all painted three coats, and 

 equipped with the latest Root covers, and 

 are the Root eight-frame Hoffman. The 

 hives stand on well made individual stands. 

 He works for comb and extracted honey, 

 and employs a practical apiarist the year 

 round, but superintends all work himself. 

 It would well pay any one interested in 

 practical honey production to visit his 

 apiaries, and there see his many labor- sav- 

 ing devices. He wires all his frames; uses 

 foundation of his own make, and owns a 

 German wax press. He is mastering the 

 fcul brood which has tuch a hold on Neva- 



APIARY OF ALBERT LANE, VORDEN, CALIFORNIA. 



