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The World of the Honeybee
Many stories have been told of the coming of honeybees to California. In 1925, Mrs. Fremont Older interviewed Mr. John Quincy Adams Ballou - then 99 years old - for his story on how honeybees came to our valley.
Many stories have been told of the coming of honeybees to California. In 1925, Mrs. Fremont Older interviewed Mr. John Quincy Adams Ballou - then 99 years old - for his story on how honeybees came to our valley. Mr. Ballou related that in 1852, Commodore Stockton sent a great shipment of plants, shrubs and trees to San Jose from a ranch that Stockton had bought from James A. Forbes. The large shipment was in the charge of a botanist named Christopher Shelton...