AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



807 



CalifornJla is far away, but the 



hearts of bee-keepers there beat in 

 unison with their brethren located East 

 of the Rocky Mountains. In a late num- 

 ber of the Rural Calif omimi, in the 

 apiarian department, Mr. C. N. Wilson 

 makes the following remarks, which 

 illustrate the fraternal feeling existing 

 there, when writing about the late Con- 

 vention at Albany, N. Y.: 



The meeting promises to be of more 

 than ordinary interest ; every local and 

 State organization is invited to send a 

 delegation. California has never been 

 fully represented in that body, and it 

 would be well if a delegation from Cali- 

 fornia could attend the Convention, get 

 acquainted with the Eastern brethren, 

 and bring home and put in practice the 

 progressive ideas of our friends East of 

 the Rocky Mountains. Whatever facili- 

 tates the handling of bees and honey adds 

 to the profit of bee-keeping; and when 

 Conventions are conducted with a view 

 of imparting information and inter- 

 change of experience in the business, on 

 that line great good is accomplished. 



Colorado. — Here are some news 

 items from a late issue of the Field and 

 Farm of Denver : 



A land company in this State recently 

 sold 13,000 sections of white comb- 

 honey in Denver. 



J. C. Frisbie, who lives near Denver, 

 obtained 6,000 pounds of surplus honey 

 from 100 colonies of bees. 



James Teflt has a colony of bees which 

 gave him 100 pounds of surplus honey. 



Mr. Rauschlaub, the apiarist at the 

 Windsor farm, put 157 colonies of bees 

 into Winter quarters in good condition. 



An Arkansas man named Arnold, has 

 lately settled at Duff, Arapahoe County. 

 He is located on the Faber ranch, and 

 has an apiary of 140 colonies. There 

 are sufficient wild flowers in that local- 

 ity to keep his bees busy, to say nothing 

 about the alfalfa. 



A bee man in Jefferson County writes : 

 " To give the general reader an idea of 

 what may be accomplished with bees in 

 Colorado, I will merely state that a few 

 days ago I was 'robbing' my bees of 

 their surplus honey, and finding one 

 colony a little more prosperous than its 

 neighbors, I got out my scales and 

 weighed the honey taken from it. There 



were sixteen frames of honey taken, 

 weighing 1213^ pounds, and leaving 

 about 25 pounds for the Wintering of 

 the colony still in the hive. That is good 

 work for Colorado, or any other coun- 

 try." 



It is estimated that to collect one pound 

 of honey from alfalfa, 62,000 heads of 

 alfalfa must be deprived of nectar, and 

 3,750,000 visits must be made by the 

 bees. 



Nearly all Colorado farmers are pay- 

 ing some attention to bee-culture, and a 

 number of them contemplate establishing 

 extensive apiaries. With its hay fields 

 of alfalfa and clover. Grand Valley 

 should become a great honey-producing 

 section. 



There are 2,500 colonies of bees in 

 Weld County, and the number is increas- 

 ing every year. 



California Apiarists are pre- 

 paring to welcome friends Cook and 

 Root. The Rural Californian remarks 

 thus : 



Professor A. J. Cook, of the Michigan 

 State Agricultural College, well known 

 as author of a valuable work on bee- 

 keeping, entitled " Manual of the Api- 

 ary," and A. I. Root, of Medina, Ohio, 

 widely known as veteran bee-keeper and 

 publisher of Oleanings on Bee Culture, 

 have arranged to come to California to- 

 gether, and may be looked for in Los 

 Angeles about the first week in January. 

 We trust their visit may prove pleasant 

 and profitable to them. We understand 

 that they propose to make an extended 

 trip and visit points of interest on this 

 coast. 



Fertili2jin§: the Clover.— The 



periodical issued by the Agricultural De- 

 partment, at Washington, called Insect 

 Life, in reply to a correspondent, claims 

 that it has been conclusively established 

 that red clover will not mature its seeds 

 without the cross fertilization brought 

 about by the visits of insects, and par- 

 ticularly bumble-bees. Although many 

 other insects assist to a limited extent, 

 the mouth of the bumble-bee is particu- 

 larly fitted for this role. It supposes 

 that the smaller percentage of seeds in 

 the early clover is owing to the fact that 

 the bees are few early in the season. 



