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our "bum" weather eases up, the orange honey crop will be slight 

 this year. However, we do not "holler before we are hurt," and 

 there is yet time for a good yield. I have never yet seen, how- 

 ever, three GOOD years of orange honey in succession; the past 

 two have been unusually fine, and so, for some reason, we cannot 

 count very heavily on a good yield from that source this year. We 

 hope to be pleasantly surprised. — E. G. B. 



On another page we give the reader a glimpse of our Welch 

 yard, showing one of our portable 12x16 foot honey houses. As 

 will be seen, the bees are located in the edge of a woodlot, among 

 standing timber, the front row being two rods into the woods, 

 and the balance of the yard occupying a space six to eight rods 

 further back into the woods. The bees are on the south side of 

 the woods, facing south, and are packed in groups of two, in tar 

 paper, and we show one of the groups in this number. Not a 

 single colony dead in this yard of over 80 colonies, excepting one, 

 which starved. 



We wish to commend the point made in the following letter, 

 by our friend, Mr. J. W. Eaton, Welaka, Fla. He writes: 



"I sold $700.00 worth of honey last year (1914), from 83 col- 

 onies, and increased to 140 colonies. I marketed the honey mostly 

 in nearby towns, in pint and quart jars. I HAVE NEVER YET 

 SHIPPED A POUND TO DISTANT MARKETS. I get from $1.00 

 to $2.00 per gallon, according to quality. I use the hybrid stock, 

 and prefer them to pure stock." (We wish to emphasize the fact 

 that our correspondent sells all his honey in nearby markets. If 

 more would do this, there would be no overstocking of the larger 

 marts. Of course, some cannot possibly sell locally but if all WHO 

 CAN, will do so, the few who cannot will never glut a market. I 

 know a town, where there are half a dozen beemen, in Florida, 

 and yet the largest merchant in that town sends regularly to New 

 York for his stock of bottled extracted honey! This speaks for 

 itself.) E. G. B. 



Lotus Glaber 



Some time ago Mr. John Lefler of Mentone, Cal. sent us a 

 specimen of a honey-producing plant, of great value with him, but 

 whose name he did not know. He says: "I do not know the name 

 of the plant I send you. It is commonly called 'Mountain Alfalfa' 

 here. It is one of the minor honey plants of California, and never 

 a very heavy yielder of nectar. It seems to grow best on sandy, 



