Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-04-18
Bees.

1t has been matter of surprise t.
US, while passing through the County
to see so few "Bee stands" upon the
farms of our country friends. We dom
know why this is so. But we do moi
believe that one in ten of the farmers
of this county have ever made the at
tempt to raise these busy little workers
Now, we want to say to our country
friends, that the State and National
Government may pile on the taxes to
their hearts content, and ace will meet
the last cent of it with the product OF
our colony of little honey gatherers.-
And we verify believe that there is not
a farmer in our county who could not
pay his taxes in the same way, and be
paid fer all his trouble in the pleasure
of seeing his little industrial communi-
ties flourish under his guardian care
and protection.
There is, on an average, FIVE dollars
worth of pure honey hid away in the
flowers that grow upon every acre of
the farmers land. And all he wants is
to set the bees to work to gather it
They are free laborers, however, and
will not be reduced to slaves. Treat
them as free laborers should be treated
and they will work as only free labor
ers will. But, undertake to play the
tJ rant over them, and every one of them
will meet you with pike, "John
Brown" fashion.
1t is true, that even among the bees,
there are found "drones the dough
faces of the COMMUNICATIVE "buzz'
and play the politician, looking upon
the workers as 'mud-sills," and liv-
ing in their lazy loaferism, on the la
Dor of others, dream, no doubt, of their
over the common "herd" who
build cells and store them with honey.
These fellows act very much like the
First Families" in the "human hive. y
And they are treated very much as
these same "F. F." should be.
For time, the buzz and bluster of
the "drones" drown all else, and cas-
ual observer would think they were, in
deed, the important fellows which they
pretend to be; just as our "drones
the self-eonstituted "patriarchs hs''-the
Slidells, Wises and such like,
whose intolerable buzz and bluster, in
our political "hive,' made them appear
as of great importance.
But every observer of the habits of
the bees, knows that the "workers,"
after time, become disgusted and in.
1ignant with the bullying, gormandiz-
ing, lazy, .hieving propensities of these
'sons of chivalry," and drive them
from the hive, or, at least, from the
Treasury, very much as the people did
he same class from their Treasury
But the thieving vagabonds are not
wiling to give it up so. You will see
hem playing the 'sFloyd" at every
chance, until the working thousands are
to exterminate the whole
ribe of rascals, Just as the working peo-
,fc are now cornpe He'd to do with their
lrones. The parallel is complete, and
or the lessons they teach, everybody
,ught to study the habits of the bees.
Bg Our exchanges, from all direc
ions, speak of the fine appearance of
he wheat So far as we have been able
% learn, the same prospect of an abun-
liant harvest is general in this County.
Let our farmer friends take courage. -
Taxes will be high, undoubtedly, but
before harvest time comes around,
money ,ciH be abundant. The Treasury
Notes are in process Of execution, and
will soon be paid out to the soldiers and
lrmy contractors, and will find their
way into general circulation. They are
ust as good us gold.
Every busheI of grain, and pound of
neat, and fleece of wool, and whatever
Use the farmer can raise, aoiH be Uanted
And the money will be abundant to buy
t with. Prices may not be extrava-
yantly high. That will depend upon
he crops. But they will not be very
ow. There will be such demand in
Europe, that nrices cannot fall very
ow. The present demand in England
md France, and some other countries, is
And there is no other land
If supply that can compete with our
armers. And this market will continue.
Our immense army must be fed and
clothed, and our farmers must do it
And to do this, will require incalcula-
Die quantities of produce; for every
lollar's worth of which the cash will be
oaid. Eastern Virginia, and large por-
ions of Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis-
souri,, have been so overr and devas-
ated by the rebel armies, that they will
De able to produce but little this year.
This has been the granary of the more
Southern States, heretofore. They will
'ot be now. They will not raise enough
or home consumption. We must not
lnly raise enough to feed anr own nan-