The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-01-10
AGRICULTURAL.
Tho Honey Bee, will 1t Pay3
BY l., c. WAITE, ST. LOUIS, MO.

The question of profit has become in this
nineteenth century the all absorbing one.
1t enters into the most ordinary affairs OF
life. In the shop, the idea is how to make
the greatest profit from the smallest amount
OF labor and material.
Strike from the nature of man the desire
for gain, and you strike at the very root OF
all the mighty works going on in this great
world of ours.
Profit is the handspring that holds In
| place and keeps in motion the machinery OF
the world. IL is the m%ainsping OF all our
actions. Hence, it is no wonder that peo-
| ple are daily asking the question, VIII the
| honey bee pay? And it is our duty to-day
to discuss that question before you, present.
ing facts for your consideration that Will
bear the light o: investigation, and allow
YOU to follow Us to the conclusion arrived
at.
And here let me say that the mere keep
ing of bees without care and watching, or
leaving them to themselves, will not pay.
As to whether bees properly kept, close
Iy watched and ~attcntively cured for, kept
with q view to turning them to account, ana
on which the proper care ard management
nave been bestowed will pay, follow US
through a few statistics and we think we
will be able to demonstrate to you the tact
that they will beyond peradventure.
In compliance with a request from Hon.
Horace CaprOn. late commissioner OF agri-
culture, MIR. Adam Grimm of Jefferson,
Wis, under date of January IL, 1871. says
That duriuo the season of 1870 his yield of
honey was -, 20 pounds. which amount
world have been doubled had his stocks
been in good condition in the spring. He
realized 50, $50 net for the honey which had
been sold. leaving on hand unso!d 3,0l3
pounds, which would bring, after deducting
expenses. about fifteen cents per pound, or
about $50. For Italian queens and cO!o-
MICS of bees he took in during the same Pc
riod the snug little sum of 81 ,lJl, He also
saws that in Consequence OF the total failure
of the honey harvest of the season OF 1868
the only one he experienced in twenty years,
he wintered only 600 colonies ont OF GO,
which in my opinion. proves that the
honey harvest can be relied upon, il the
lon. run. as well rs any other crop. MIR.
Grimm is up to snuifn in regard to the
'sgoings on" of the little prich-tailed Gus
SEES" which explains why he most al
ways, as q general thing, comes out at the
large end Of the horn.
..OLp FIELDs."-North Carolina, Is spe-
cially favored in having, IL Prof. Kerr, a
State Geologist who is capable OF thinking,
and not afraid to express his thoughts. He
is down on "old feds" and the people who
make them-say> each odd iield' Is the ''his
mark" to the name of some member OF the
Buster school stamped upon the fair face of
North Carolina. Hear what he further says
OF the slhiuc;:
Il anl tor lcvyinga special tax on al odd
fields Is heavy as the constitution Will per-
nit. ladced, they ought to rcvers 10, and
70 be declared ipy0 fictD u the STATE. He
who take, n acre OF the virgin SOIL oil which
the Almighty has employed all the forces Of
lis universe some thousands Of years
to Umj2llish aud cGrich-lIis sun, and
successive tribes o! animals ana plants, and
chemistry of the stars, u make it 'athing OF
beauty and Joy forever for the use aad en-
jovmtat CT his chi!Grcn-he who takes that
AMI nycrt9 i. into Il blight and Il GcvaSta-
ton in the shape Of m old iieli-what is
hr hu, Il criminal: Norman. no generation
o: .asn has IN absolute tide 20 the soil in
any ,i,h sense that he may irreverentiy de-
strUy j. belongs to mankind. and the
revcr>iOany rIrat If pHStcri'y to il il indie
feasible and inllieulhlc. aud no individual
OF generation has. or can acquire, any other
than Z lSu.TUc.usry property in it. He who
creates AN odd field therefore. and so
makes Il des2lation' worse than even war
eau effect, pcrpatratcs = robbery upon man
kind, commits n grand larceny against his
" children, an iniquity 10 be punished
by tAc jrdgeE.''
CrEIosITIFs OF IIFE.-Lay your finger
On yourp pulse, and know that at every stroke
Sornn mortal passc' to his maker; some frl-
fJw-h-iug crosses the river Of death :; aud if
We think OF it, We may rs well wonder that
il should be So long b fore our turn cones.
Halt OF all who 1--we de before seventeen.
baly Onf person III ten Thousand lives to
BE- one hundred years Oil. AMI but one in 4
hundred reaches sixty.
The married. live longer than the sirgle.
There i Ole soldier 10 every eight persons,
ard ont al every thousand born. only ninety
five weddings take place.
Ii r.n1, 81 :. Ihnt,.n.MI ln..--nr. ,..LIn hn1-o