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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15 



FlU. i. 



-APIAKI OK K. 



VANDALL. IN SUR, MONTERY CO., CAL. 



BEE-KEEPING IN CALIFORNIA. 



Summit Apiary of B. C. Vaiidall ; Second 

 Growth of Alfalfa in Nevada. 



BY SOJOURNER. 



Tucked away in the top of a spur of the 

 Coast Range Mountains we tind this apiary, 

 facing and looking down upon the waters of 

 the Pacific Ocean, some two thousand feet 



below — see Fig. 1. Its owner, now retired 

 from more active pursuits, was once Califor- 

 nia's I'epresentative in its legislature, and a 

 journalist of repute. At eighty years of 

 age he still works with his bees. 



In Fig. 2 notice the fineness of the alfalfa 

 stems which shoot out from the roots. Al- 

 thovigh not yet in bloom, nor full grown, it 

 averages four feet in length. 



This quality of hay is bought at seven and 



FIG,[,2 



-SECOND GROWTH OF ALFALFA IN NEVADA. 



