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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



drawback to the building up of colonies 

 in the spring. Many feed meal until the 

 blooming of the cottonwood, which is the 

 principal tree of this region and furnishes 

 pollen in abundance. Some of the best 

 bee-keepers practice stimulating feeding 

 in the spring, and find it very profitable. 

 They mix up sugar and honey into a thin 

 syrup, and put it out in troughs; some 

 alfalfa twigs being put into the troughs 

 to keep the bees from drowning. There 

 is no danger from loss of brood by its being 

 chilled by a "squaw winter," as in Michi- 

 gan. Bring a colony up to the alfalfa 

 flow, with the combs full of brood, and 

 the hive full of bees, and a crop is as- 

 sured. 



What I have written of Colorado is true 

 of many portions of the West; modified, 

 of course, by local conditions. Con- 



sidering that cultivation, as a rule, 

 lessens the yield of honey in the East, 

 but increases it in the West, that there 

 are untold acres yet to be reclaimed by 

 irrigation, toward which object the 

 general government is now beginning to 

 direct its attention, and the prophecy of 

 Bro. Root seems bound to come to pass. 

 We may as well make up our minds that 

 the West will 3-et produce the great bulk 

 of the honey. 



Bear in mind that the West is yet a new 

 country, in the formative period. Meth- 

 ods, industries and business, have not 

 settled down to certain lines; and the 

 next few years will probably witness 

 wonderful changes. 



On The Train, Coming Home. 



Nov. 25, 1 901 



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(Jct-Apiarv of R. C. Aikin, Near Lovei-and,'Colokaik). 



Apiarj' is looattd in a tiniber-claini. 

 Only about (ine-half the apiarj- shows. 

 Trees have been planted about 15 years, j 



