GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1921 



[This b(H'-tree was one of seven standing 

 very close together at an altitude of over 

 7000 feet. The opening in this tree was only 

 shoulder high to Mr. Campbell, who is shown 

 smoker in hand ready to do business. Seven 

 bee-trees bunched close together show what 

 excellent bee pasture the Kocky Mountain 

 bee plant furnishes in its native place.] 



are quite a few pure blacks, the blacks hav- 

 ing made the most honey. The colony that 

 made over 200 pounds of honey is black 

 bees. I got them out of a gabled end of a 

 house in Flagstaff. They had been there 

 eight years. 



I have never seen any honey that beats 

 this, gathered from the Eocky Mountain bee 

 plant. The picture of this honey plant 

 which I am sending you was taken close to 

 the beeyard. The plant grows about three 

 feet high. It makes good hay when cut at 

 the right time, and the chickens like the 

 seed as well as they do buckwheat. My 



[A patch of Eocky Mountain bee plant, 

 growing wild about Mr. Campbell 's apiaries. 

 "A wonderful honey," says Mr. Campbell, 

 ' ' in the blooming of which the nectar fairly 



shines.' '] 



[Mr. Campbell called this a rich bee-tree. The picture sliows little more of the big pine log 

 than just the opening into it made with Mr. C. 's tix. He is here shown securing a big lot of 

 lioney which more tluin filled two five-gallon cans, the top of one of which is shown directly 

 ill front of the busy honey harvester. The bees' entrance in this tree was 50 feet above the 



ground.] 



