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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Some Arrangements for the National Meeting at Denver in Feb. 



Boulder, Colo., Oct. 30, 1914 

 Dr. Burton N. Gates, 



Amherst, Mass. 

 Dear Mr. Gates: — - 



Yours of Oct. 20 is at hand. I 

 have selected Mr. N. L. Henthorne, 

 Plattevllle, Colo. President of the 

 Colorado State Association, and Mr. 

 L. P. Jouno, 335 Osceola, Denver, 

 to serve with myself as a committee 

 of local arrangements. If either 

 of these cannot serve, I would 

 like to have Mr. D. W. Working, 

 with the Bureau of Farm Manage- 

 ment, Denver, serve. Mr. Working 

 was formerly secretary of our 

 state association. 



I think we should have a three 

 days' meeting and the auditorium 

 Hotel, Denver, will probably be 

 the meeting place. The rates at this 

 hotel are $1 per day and up, $1.50 

 a day, I believe, where two occupy 

 a room. I hardly think there will 

 be any rates on during February. 



The Convention room of the hotel 

 is well adapted for exhibit space. 

 We will have a banquet and if the 

 weather permits we can take an 

 auto trip to some nearby apiaries. 



I would like to arrange one or 

 more meetings in eastern Colorado. 

 One at Rocky Ford and another 

 probably at Sterling so that those 

 who came to the convention from 

 the east could arrange to stop off 

 and hold a preliminary meeting to 

 stir up interest in the convention 

 in Denver. If yourself and Dr. 

 Phillips could come to Colorado ten 

 days before the convention we 

 could hold a number of local meet- 

 ings throughout the state and prob- 

 ably stir up considerable interest. 



I will inform you in a few days 

 definitely about hotel and rates and 

 also whether there will be any 

 railroad rates in effect. 



Yours very truly, 

 WESLEY FOSTER, Director. 



California Apiculture Up and Down to Date 



Given at the National Convention, St. Louis, February 1914, by 

 Bixby, Editor Western Ho ney Bee, Covina, California 



J. D. 



The apiarist who comes to California 

 from the east comes to a new world — 

 one in which the business of honey 

 production must be re-learned. Prob- 

 lems await him which are entirely un- 

 foreseen, and which convince him that 

 lie has reached the "land of contrari- 

 ties," where they raise oranges just 

 over the fence from snow banks; 

 where it turns cold to rain; where the 

 toads are green, the frogs are brown, 

 and where the robins wear their red 

 aprons under their tails. 



He is confronted by the wintering 

 question — and finds his bees perhaps 

 storing more honey in winter from 

 eucalyptus and lemon than they did 

 in summer from sage. He thinks, of 

 course, there is nothing for bees to 

 do but store honey during the long, 

 beautiful summer — and finds them 

 starving in October, never realizing 

 that it takes four times as much honey 

 to carry a colony from June to Novem- 

 ber here as it does from October to 

 May in the east. He sees orange trees 



dripping with nectar in March, and 

 straightway rushes to secure a Tortune 

 — only to find that a weak force of 

 field bees, long nights and cool, foggy 

 mornings have defeated his efforts. 



Perhaps he goes north to Sacra 

 niento and finds ample scope for his 

 craft in an undeveloped territory, 

 wnere his best honey is gathered in 

 mid -winter from manzanita, and the 

 fteavy flow of early summer is dark 

 colored and low priced. There are 

 many localities in the state like this, 

 which are suitable only for bee and 

 queen-raising, by reason of having lit- 

 tle or no white honey producing flora. 



Possibly he locates in one of the great 

 interior valleys, where vast areas are 

 overflowed each year and bees must be 

 placed on high platforms each fall, to 

 be safe from high water, which over- 

 flow produces regular and heavy crops 

 of beautiful white honey from carpet 

 grass, and light amber from alfalfa. 



He may settle in one of the very dry 

 alfalfa growing regions near the desert 



