Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-01
THE ApiAkY.


SOME kinds of very thick honey wi
not granulate.
IT looks now as though alfalfa honey
is to lead the world.
MICE will eat bees and pollen and when
they get into hive they usually keep
the colony in an uproar and may even
eventually cause their death.
The Convention of the Eastern Iowa
Bee Keepers, will be held in the Dobson
Town Clock Building, Maquoketa. Iowa,
Feb. IL, IL. Frank Coverdale, Sec,
Weton, Iowa.
ors for in extreme hot weather the combs
in dark colored hives will melt down,
while in hive which is painted white,
no damage will be done.
Do NOT be alarmed if you find num-
Der of dead bees about the entrance of
the hive. In summer time you do not
notice so many because the colony carry
their dead away in their daily flight.
The bees will take care of the empty
brood combs in the summer season better
than you can do it. In winter they
should be boxed up tightly, after being
thoroughly fumigated with sulphur, if
they have any moth-germs in them.
colony should be kept in book, as we'll
as on the piece of section under the hive
cover. The book may be studied even
ings or when it rains and the necessary
work Systematically planned.
| IT seems as if successful bee keeper
must be very careful, thoughtful man.
His constant attention to little things
must discipline his mind and make him a
useful member of society. 1t seems also
as if his experiences should lead him to
communicate with the papers frequently
in generous manner, feeling that he
would have others learn at little expense
what has cost himself so much effort.
Temperature of bee Cellars.
1t is important that the temperature of
the cellars should be looked after care
fully. The temperature of the bee cell
lars bears such an important relation to
the health Of the bees that it must be
kept in mind constantly. In the jour
nails the advice is continually given to
beware of the moisture in the cellars.
This has been counted as one of the most
fatal conditions of such o cellar The
moisture of the air bears an important
relation to the temperature, and if the
latter is kept right no danger may be en-
pected from the former. Moisture, OF
course, is continually passing off from
the bees, the same as from human bodies,
and this must be absorbed by the air.
Should the air be saturated with moist
ure, SO that it can contain no more, then
this avenue of escape of moisture from
the bees will be closed. The air of a bee
cellar that is warm and damp would be
just as injurious as a moist air without
; the warmth. A warm air does not thus
! 4 st
moisture in the air should be ascertaned,
and complete record of it kept every
day. A wet bulb thermometer can be
obtained for a small sum, and one should
be kept in the bee cellar all of the time.
1t is not so much. then, the tempera-
tnre of the cellar as it is the degree of
, saturation. A large colony, we'll pro-
tected and in good condition, can stand
more moisture than small. sicklv one.
Mold in the cellar is a pretty sure in
! dication of moisture-ladea atmosphere.
Its presence may not be injurious to the
bees, but it indicates the beginning OF
conditions which may result unfayorably.
But damp cellars need not be the rule.
| for there are easy methods to prevent
such conditions. One bushel of unsaked
lime will absorb twenty-eight pounds of
, water in the process of stalking. II a
quantity of unslaked lime is thus kept
5 in the cellar continually. it will absorb
| the moisture and create a dry atmos-
phere.-Annic G. Webster, IL. American,
t CultipdtOr.
Mr.. Richard \. Proctor, the WE'LL
known lecturer on astronomy, once
tried the experiment of wearing COR
set. and thus describes the result:
/, "When the subject of corset-wearing
was under discussion in the pages OF
the English Mechanic, was struck, !"
he says, with the apparent weight of
evidence in favor of tight lacing. I
was in particular struck by the evidence
of some as to it's use in reducing cor
pulence. was corpulent. 1 also was
disposed, as I am still, to take an inter-
est in scientific experiment. I thought
1 would give this matter fair trial.
read all the instructions, carefully fol-
lowed them, and varied the time of APP
plying pressure with that perfectly
, stiff Dusk about which correspondents
| were SO enthusiastic. 1 was foolish
enough to try the thing for a matter of
four weeks. Then laughed at myself
as hopeless idiot, and determined to
give up the attempt to reduce by arti-
cial means that superabundance of fat
on which only starvation and much ex-
ercise, or the air of America, has ever
had any real reducing influence. But I
was reckoning without my host. As the
Chinese lady suffers, am told, when
. her eet-bindings are taken off, and as
the fat-headed baby bowls when his
head-boards are removed, so for while
was it with me. found myself mani
testify better in stays. I laughed at
myself no longer. I was too angry
with myself to laugh. Iwould as soon
have condemned myself to using
crutches all the time as to wearing al
ways busk. But for my one month of
folly / had to endure three months of
discomfort. At the end of about that