I GOT mv start 

 ill bees'in 1920 

 by finding 54 

 bee-trees. I had 

 good luck in sav- 

 ing them, for I 

 always worked 

 into the frames 

 the combs of 

 brood and all 

 the straight comb, 

 kinds of trees as 

 the ground. From 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1921 



AN APIARY 7900 FEET UP 



Secured From lOO 'Bee Trees. 



Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Heavy 



Yielder in Its Natural Home 



By S. M. Campbell 



I found the bees in all 

 well as in logs lying on 

 one log I got over $20.00 



worth of honey 

 besides the full 

 set of 10 combs. 

 I got plenty of 

 honey to pay my 

 grocery bill all 

 the summer of 

 1920 from the 

 wild bees. 



This spring, 

 1921, I commenced early hunting for more 

 bee-trees and have found up to date 46. The 

 best tree had five 5-gallon cans full of comb 



[The beeyard that has an elevation of 7900 feet on Eldern Mountain. There are 46 colonies 

 here, all taken from bee-trees. The best colony made over 200 pounds of comb honey from 

 the Eocky Mountain bee plant. In winter this high-up apiary is sometimes buried under 

 Bix feet of snow. This is the location on which Mr. Campbell began bunching his wild bees.] 



