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HFMI-TKOPIC CALIFORNIA. 
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WILL BEE KEEPING PAY ? 
Editor Srmi-TrOjtc:—A greeable to 
your request, I will contribute to yum 
served |y popular journal an ooeasional 
elfitui matters pertaining to benkeeping in 
Soatbom California. Theqfeevfmn i* often 
asked. Will bee keeping pnv ? 1 would In* 
inclined to answer both affirmatively and 
negatively. Affirmatively, if managed with 
judgment ami economy, and negatively, if 
otherwise. In the present article 1 will 
only speak of the preliminary steps in the 
matter, as I think the Increafl of the busi¬ 
ness depends as much nn these a* on any¬ 
thing els.-, and all that I shall write will 
be devoted to the sole purpose of making 
l*ee keeping a paying business. Those who 
keep bees for amusement or pastime, can 
adopt any theory they like, but what most 
bee men want in Southern California is a 
systematic course of at*lion which will fur¬ 
nish “grub” and leave something to jingle 
in the pocket. 
If 1 hud known, five years ago, that which 
I have been forced to learn by “sad exper¬ 
ience," I could, to-day, add an extra thou¬ 
sand dollars to the credit nf my aniary, and 
it is the fond hope that some onw may profit 
bv my experience, which pnmiptann-to write 
these lines, 1 would say, in the first place, 
start, by all means, with Italian bens. I 
did so. (I have none to »clL) My first 
season wrh a bad one. A neighbor, ies* 
than u quarter of a mile distant, had black 
bees in much better condition rliann.v lul 
iaris. Fie lost half his bon; I lost none. Tin- 
treatment was the Banm. The next spring. I 
increased my hcesiodmildctbeorigirnl mini 
her by dividing, mu! | extracted 3fi'.i lbs. of 
honey for each original stand of bees. I 
sold the honey in San Franeieco for 3 cunts 
per pound, which only netted me about 3<\ 
cent* HI Pomona, the station I shipped from' 
I divided, again, in the fall (which I would 
never do again), and, uuuntiug the honey 
nud wax at what 1 received for it, net, and 
allowing two dollars pr r colonv fur the in¬ 
crease, wich original colony paid men little 
more than that season. Now, if the 
next season had been favombic, 1 would 
bavo come out all tight, but i, proK-d to be 
“ i 0 ,"n , R ' ,d " ,,w ““stake Of dividing 
in the fall became apparent, and I lost ball 
of my bees No one ought to invent all 
thcr available cash ,n an apiary, for bad 
season* i rtU come, and they arc liable to 
come in vmir first year* ctin-nenais as it 
JiJ mino; «n.|, Uirn, ,( y„u .l.uuld’ have 
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low Last year, one of my neighbors sold 
his honey for 4] cents per"pound. In two 
months fie could have sold it for (’> cents per 
pound; an increase in value in two months 
of :i:ij per cent. In selecting a location 
for an apiary, wc think it advisable, by all 
means, to select a place having sufficient 
good land to grow vegetables anil fruit, for 
home "»e at least, ami sufficient feed for a 
home, a cow, a few p'g*, poultry, etc , all 
nf which will pay well for the care bestowed 
on them, and will assist, greatly in aiding 
ft possessor 
sweet that everything you touoh will stick 
to you—except your money. 
J. F. Stbbi.h. 
Pomona, Cal- 
Peruvian Bitters ! 
avoid “living like a dog. 
ly visited a bee man in a location 
to which a goat could scarcely climb. In 
a small bit of dark, rich soil, near the house, 
be bad atnne line-looking tobacco plants, 
well-grown. Near by were potatoes and 
other vegetables, a banana plant, just fruit¬ 
ing, fig trees, loaded with their tempting 
fruit, also, strawberries, and the most thor 
oughly hewitching blarkbeirv patch it has 
er been our good luck to fall into. lie 
3 no horse, no cow, no pigs, no chickens, 
and, we believe, not even a cot nr dog. 
And, worse than all, he has no wife to make 
I those nice blackberries into pies. We in¬ 
terrogated him slightly on the subject, and 
he replied, that wheh he got married he j 
wished his wife to know, when she got 
breakfast, where the dinner was to rorne I 
from. What, could we say V We said 
nothing, but w* kept thinking, all the time, „ 
that she might get dinner in t hat blackberry reruviuu Bit 
patch. A position in the foot-hills is cer- & "Si&wF™ ^ -*Sj 
uinly preferable for an apiary. From such 
a location bees have access to both the val¬ 
ley and mountain feed. The hills and 
cartons frequently get late showers, which 
the »alley* uriv,, und, consequently, they 
Hfbml late feed when the feed on the val¬ 
leys is dead nod gone. The quality of the 
honey made in such locations is always «u- 
I'frfor in flavor and color to that made on 
the valleys. In fact, much of the honey 
made exclusively oft valley feed, is so dark 
and ill-flavored as to be unfit for the tnble, 
wliih-, even the darkest honey made from 
mountain feed, has a line flavor, and, by 
many, is preferred to the lightest pure, sage 
honey Ann to produce only extracted 
honey, L’umb huney will not pay expenses. I xA 
■ nn not he shipped With any degree of) f J 
''•t-y, the demand is weak and unoer-! O »- 
lam and (In. amount which can ba produced ° . 
* loo small in proportion In the amount of -q 
xirueted honey which can be produced , % 
under tins same circumstances, Any bee i !~v w 
who has tried it, will toll you th-lfc* = 
d b« will tell the whole truth, nn <l ,.f jrq 
known to tell'g 
A TRIAL OF TnR.SK 
Will Convince you that they nrc the 
Best Bitters in the World 
They Effectually Cure MALARIAL 
DISEASES; VITALIZE THE SYSTEM 
and arrest, (he ravages of the Dreadful 
Alcohol Hal.it—DYPSOMANIA. 
*• »>» all Hrin-ei.1. ,m<l W 
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lie—at IcMet, hardly ov« 
Make¬ 
up your 
•ell 
«"•* P c ' r pound, as mentioned ahm 
Iimm, sold in tile same market, o 
fur L. cent* per pound. The Same increase! 
:.•£» ""■, d "'"- j- ..i.dd, i„„ 
not the Wat doubt that it 
we have 
. . ind not to 
honey till you make it. Ktuiu- . 
men uuike hundreds or tons of honey out I 
of gas, printers' i„k and paper, u», 8 l^iuul 
ay, tile tnnffonfiive and saintly San Fran-1 
1 . / , J° ® rj01, ni*»ion man, who often finds i t a 1 
would (d.ffioull m,ll,r lo Hud f,„ t h M kl „j I 
of .unity. I rupttrv fur l„d luaacu, f w : 
• w, ,rW IW, good ...,; 011>i 
al*o, and, If you are in ruailiness when the 
alwaye pay well to hold honey when ri is l°ZT ^ /" vwl *" up to 
} when it U your wyes; in (act, you will become *o 
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