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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



SEnKMBKR, 19"20 



HEADS OF GRAIN I gPOM^O TDIFFERENT FIELDS 



Yes, we get a honey crop here once in a 

 while, but we earn it. Now, do not get con- 

 fused and come out here with the idea that 

 you c.an buy 300 colonies, set them in 

 an orange grove, and that all you have to do 

 is to go to every hive and rap at the en- 

 trance and they will hand you out $20.00 

 each. Tliey might give you 20 each, but it 

 will not be dollars. I got on an average 

 only three and a half little, measly dollars 

 this year per hive, and I was offered $12.00 

 a hive for ray bees in the spring. The most 

 of us here are here to stay, as our way here 

 will not do in other States; so if you can 

 get a fair crop in your own State, I believe 

 you better not come here to keep bees, as it 

 is too uncertain. I sometimes wish I had 

 all my bees and all my outfit that are now 

 here moved back to Michigan; but, as it is, 

 I am about to carry on a side line to fall 

 back on in a poor year. 



After the above explanation, I hope that 



you will no longer think that dollars grow 

 on trees out here. Chas. S. Kinzie. 



Arlington, Calif. 



That New A short time ago a cor- 



Fumigant for respondent asked wliy 



Bee Moth. we did not recommend 



the use of carbon tet- 

 rachloride as a fumigant against wax moths 

 instead of carbon bisulphide which is so 

 explosive and therefore dangerous. The Edi- 

 tor of Gleanings referred the suggestion to 

 the Bureau of Entomology at Washington. 

 The following is the reply received from C. 

 R. Watson of the Bureau: 



' ' Pursuant to the statement I made to you 

 in my letter of the 14tli of last November 

 that we were planning to carry out some 

 experiments to determine the value of ear- 



In Hii Oklalioma apiary. — (R. L. Blackwell, Lexiiis:ton, Okla.) 



