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price of this fruit was what it has been 

 in tho past, wo would roalizo a fine sum 

 from our chorry nop alono. As it is, 

 tiio prico has faliou bt>low what it had 

 over boon in fornior yoars. Fino chor- 

 rios, sucli as you aro not accustomod to 

 soo in tho lOast, liavo boon solilnj? for 

 sonto days tliis woolc ft)r only IS conts 

 por pound. Tho lowest thoy have boon 

 boforo was about 3 oonts. Hoautiful 

 blaok oliorrios aro now o (Hints por 

 pound — th«y sliould not bo loss than (> 

 or 7 oonts. As it does not pay to soil 

 tliom at tlio low price that lias boon rul- 

 iufj this wook, wo havo turned our 

 pickers otY until tho market becomes 

 tinner. 



Tho cause for the fall in tho market is 

 not that there is an o.Ktra larjjje crop this 

 year, but for the reason that tlio banks 

 will not loan tho fruit canneries any 

 money, as tlioy havo in i)ast yoars. Tho 

 banks seem to bo hodi:;in^, and don't 

 want any money out when they cannot 

 toll the hour that there will be a " run" 

 upon them. 



1 don't know how tho financial strait 

 will affect the bee-business ; a good 

 many California beo-keepors havo to 

 borrow from tho banks on their crops. 

 1 suppose tho boe-nuMi have made their 

 nejJTotiatlons before this time. 



Speaking of the prices of honey re- 

 minds mo that my brothers have boon 

 doing very well ; thoy have sold off sev- 

 eral hunilred pounds of this year's crop 

 of extracted at S cents per pound. The 

 lowest they have obtained this year is 

 7,^' conts. This is doing very well ; 

 thoy say thoy can sell all they havo 

 without having to send it to San Fran- 

 cisco, as they did last year. Thoy are 

 building up the homo market with good 

 results. Thoy havo obtained lli^j cents 

 por pound for their comb honey. As 

 our locality is not well adapted to the 

 production of this kind of honey on ac- 

 count of tho cool nights, wo don't got 

 much of it. 



North Temescal, Calif., June 24,18i)o. 



All Oiit-Aplnry tii the ]?Ioiiiitalii« 

 of Tciiiiesiiioc. 



Written for the American BceJoumal 



BY W. M. SCRUGGS. 



As there is said to bo more than l.ODO 

 colonies of boos in our town, 1 thought 

 it best to establish an out-apiary. 1 did 

 so. 1 moved 15 colonies to tho selected 

 place, which is a peculiar one, so 1 will 

 describe it. 



The top of the Cumberland Mountain 

 is a nice, level country, and elevated 

 about 1,1^00 foot above the common 

 level of the valleys. In the top of this 

 mountain aro caves or sinks 800 to 

 1,200 foot deep, some of them being 

 one to five miles long, and one to two 

 miles wide, and some of these caves 

 prong out like a crow-foot. Tho one I 

 have selected is four miles long, and has 

 three prongs to it, and is about l.OOC) 

 feet deep, and one mile wide. This sink 

 has a nO-acre farm in the bottom of it, 

 and about 20 acres of the farm is in 

 largo fruit trees. Most of the land in 

 this cavo is very rough, covered with 

 large stones. The land is very rich, 

 and the timber very large and line. The 

 poplar tree grows here quite numer- 

 ously, and no doubt will remain, as it 

 would cost more tp got it out of such a 

 place than it would bo worth. 



The celebrated linden tree is growing 

 thickly all over this sink, from the bot- 

 tom of it to the top of the hill?. The 

 chestnut, sour-wood, grape and sumac 

 are hero in large quantities. There is 

 also a kind of rock moss that blooms as 

 early as fruit, and lasts until the poplar 

 bloom comes in. 



It is several degrees warnier down in 

 this sink than out on top of the moun- 

 tain. Tho linden loaves were about 

 grown at tho base, while they were In 

 tho bud up near the top of tho hill. 



I have selected a hillside 5-acre field, 

 facing east, and 100 foot above the base 

 of tho sink. I carried tho boos to the 

 place tho last of March. Thoy were a 

 poor lot, for bees wintered badly here 

 last winter ; but by INIay 1st they had 

 built up, and wore ready for a second 

 story ; and I havo kept adding on sur- 

 plus cases until at present they are two 

 to three stories high, and full of sealed 

 honey. I expect to extract tho honey 

 this week, so as to give the bees a chance 

 to store all the honey from the linden 

 they can carry in, which is now begin- 

 ning to bloom. 



There are quite a lot of just such 

 places in this mountain, as the one de- 

 scribed, and if this is not a good place 

 for an apiary, please tell me where to 

 find one. 



Tracy City, Tenn., June 19, 1893. 



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