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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



WHITE SWEET CLOVER SEED— 

 lO.OOU pounds unhulled at 12c per pound, 

 8,000 pounds hulled cleaned seed at liOc 

 per pound sacks 25c extra. Immediate 

 shipment. B. F. SMITH JR., Cowley, 

 Wyo. 



FOR SALE — Twenty-five colonies of 

 heavy, healthy bees. Forty comb honey 

 supers complete. Empty bodies, etc. Two 

 incubators. Two horse engine, with saw 

 and feed grinder. Address G. M. With- 

 row, Mechanicsburg, 111. 



White Sweet Clover Seed 



We have for sale in Bulil, Idaho, a 

 quantity of unhulled white sweet clover 

 sted that we can furnish as long as 

 it lasts at 12c per pound on track 

 there. Also some Hulled white at 20 

 cents a pound there. To get these low 

 prices the order should be for not less 

 than 50 pounds of one kind. Address 

 THE BEE-KEEPEl;.S' REVIEW 

 Norcnstar, Michigan 



FOR SALE — At reasonable prices for 

 cash and terms, very fine Apple Orchard 

 in healing, located in the GREAT PE- 

 COS VALLEY. Will sell in 5, i\) and 

 20 acre tracts, full water i-ighLs in 

 Northern Carrol. Clear title. Will sell 

 my home place, that is nicely improved. 

 Have some valuable vacant acres to 

 dispose of. Also a fine small Alfalfa 

 farm, fairly well improved. All of this 

 property lies in or close into the town 

 of Hagermon, X. M., a gro\ving little 

 city of 500 people. 



Win sell 50 to 100 colonies of healthy 

 BEES with each tract of land if desu-- 

 ed, or will sell BEES separately. This 

 is the land of Sunshine, a country of 

 the BIG RED APPLE, ALFALFA ajid 

 PLOXEY. A failure in crop is unknown. 

 The elevation is 3500 feet, a residence 

 here is a sure cure for Asthma, tliroat 

 and lung trouble. Reason for selling. 

 Owner retiring from active work. 

 HENRY C. BARRON, Hagermon, New 

 Mexico. 



LABELS FOR HONEY— According to 

 the interstate commerce ruling, honey 

 put up for retail trade since September 

 3rd. MUST contain a net weight label. 

 The little label shown here is one inch 

 by two inches and is gummed all ready 

 to stick to the section, or jar, as the 

 case maye be. The reading can be 

 changed to suit each individual need 

 without extrji charge. The figures in- 

 dicative of the number of ounces can 

 be left blank, and the amount written 

 in with a pen, if .so desired. 2000, one 

 by two inch, net weight, gummed La- 

 bels for only a dollar, postpaid. Ad- 

 dress the Bee-Keepers' Review, North- 

 star, Michigan. 



This Honey produced by 



HOMER G. SMITH 

 Parkville, Mich. 



It contains 14 ounces of HONEY 

 exclusive of wood. 



is now, to overrule the will of the 

 4,480 majority, and carry out the 

 policy of the 10. Of course this 

 Is not probable, but it is possible, 

 and although beekeepers are the 

 salt of the earth, and will not in- 

 ttntionally wrong anybody, it is 

 said that even angels gave way 

 to ambition and had a falling out, 

 and we beekeepers are not all an- 

 gels — yet. 



California Apiculture Up and 

 Down to Date 



(Continued from page 455) 



instrumental in securing valuable 

 legislation; has issued a system of 

 crop reports; has established a success- 

 ful and popular journal, the "Western 

 Honey Bee," and is now engaged in 

 preparing an exhibit for the 1915 expo- 

 sitions which will be a credit to the 

 state and to our industry. 



Again, beekeeping in California is 

 conducted as a business rather than 

 as an avocation, far more than in the 

 east. Comparatively few been are kept 

 in the patriarchal way or as an ad- 

 junct to general farming. A surpris- 

 ing number of our most extensive 

 apiarists are single men and live on 

 claims that they have bought, home- 

 steaded, or simply squatted on, in the 

 mountains. But nearly all those who 

 are men of family live in the cities or 

 larger towns, quite a distance from 

 their apiaries, Avhich they reach as nec- 

 essity requires by auto or steam cars. 

 It is a common practice for the bee- 

 keeper and his family to close the 

 city home and move to the camp at the 

 principal apiary at the beginning of 

 the main honey flow in May, there to 

 remain until the season closes, while 

 the work in the apiaries is done be- 

 tween trips up the trout brooks and 

 excursions to flower-filled "cienegas" 

 among the higher peaks. Often the 

 roofless camp is pitched merely under 

 the shelter of some huge, spreading 

 live-oak, assured that no rain will 

 fall till autumn, an ideal enjoyment of 

 that "last of life for which the first 

 was made." Then when the harvest 

 is gathered and the last load of honey 

 sent to the warehouse, the auto truck 

 carries the children, tanned and rug- 

 ged, back to the city and the opening 

 schools. 



And so the years drift by. each with 

 its record of scanty dole or brimming 



