Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-08-12
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TIC
AGRICULTURlSTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Jul
tivation of the Soil and fieios
Observation-Disclosures ViticuIture and
Horticulture.
The Beekeeper's Interests.

report of illinois Farmers Institute
Round-up.)
In the course of an address on this
subject, Hon. ]. A. Stone, secretary OF
the Illinois Beekeepers' association,
said:
1t matters not what pursuit In life
we wish to enter, the first question
that confronts us is, will 1t pay!
1t is an axiom that no business IN tnls
world will pay unless it is properly
| managed and that the time will finally
come when it will prove unsuccessful
financially Take wheat growing, for
example, which has not been profitable
for number of years in this state, ana
yet there are many farmers who nave
paid for their farms out of crop OF
wheat. One of the great faults among
farmers is to all raise the same thing
and get overcrowded. The interests OF
the beekeepers are not SO for the rea-
son that the wild flowers are dlsap-
pearing, and there Is not the bee pas
turage to feed upon that there used to
be. Then again, many are afraid OF
bees If person is not brave enough
to stand an occasional sting, 1t Wou1o
be better for him never to engage IN
bee culture.
With many barriers In the way, the
interests of the beekeeper are over
looked to the loss Of everybody. The
first objection, that the wild flowers
are disappearing, can easily be over
come. No sane man ever thinks OF
keeping any kind of animals without
in some way providing food for those
animals, but when it comes to BEES
because they have wings their owners
will say: eff you cannot sponge on my
neighbours fields, you can starve." Will
| 1t pay to raise some kind of pasture
for them? We know it will pay largely.
Not long since off of piece of alsike
clover we obtained only fifty pounds
Of honey per acre, and only 10 cents per
pound for the honey. That would pay
for the land at SIS an acre and the hay
and seed could be marketed in addi-
ton. While in charge Of the Illinois
honey exhibit at the Worlds Fair, we
were one day conversing with dairy
man who said that his COWS, on alsike
neighbours cows. We quizzed him and
said: Perhaps you have better cows"
He said in reply: "They are the same
cows l have had on other pasture and
they did not produce as we'll then" /
said: Are you beekeeper?" He said:
| HNn. h1Yt al OH VIC hoo
my pasture"
The beginner in the bee business
should get some good book on beekeep-
ing, such as the "a. B. G. in Bee Gull
ture," and should take good bee pa
per. Then, with small number of
hives there are number of good
k1nds) with Italian bees in them, in a
few years you will have all the bees
you desire, and the knowledge neces-
sary to care for them. We claim for
the bee industry what can be said of
no other 1t does not take from any
other thing that which would make it
more valuable by retaining the same,
but on the contrary adds to the value.
For example, when bees go into the
orchard in full bloom, to gather what
nature has placed there, they carry the
fertiliZing dust from blossom to bios
som, causing fruit to grow where there
would have been none without some
agent to carry the pollen, as nature
seems to abhor Standardization, and
all the busy bee carries off as a re-
ward for his valuable services ia not
needed and is of no use to either fruit
or tree, and was placed there for him
to carry away.
1t would be we'll to say in this con-
nection that We do not look for seed
in the first crop of red clover. but Wa
have observed since having Italian hoo.
that in seasons that are dry and the
blossoms not 80 large, Italian bees work
on them sufficiently to cause a ouan-
tlty OF seed in the first crop. Alsike
clover produces its big crop of seed the
nrst crop because bees work so heay-
lily upon it. Can this be said of anv
other industry, that, by taking a part
OF the things we have named, the re-
malnder Is made greater? A beekeener
friend living in the northern part Of
our county said to me during a WALL
through his alsike clover fields. "I will
get three crops from those fields.
Will get crop of honey, a crop of hav
and crop of seed" Bookkeeping will
enable US to save what is otherwise
going to waste. and with no loss ex-
cept the time for their care. DR. Want
says, Honey is a physiological sweat
In other words, its constituents ara
such it is absorbed into the blood with
out undergoing chemical change" Sucb
is not the fact in regard to sugar
Honey is an inverted sugar and 4.
rapidly absorbed into the system with
out being acted upon by the gastric
juices. 1t Is not only delicious swoot
but healthy and delicious form -,
1000 as well. 1t is also recommends
by those who have used it as a nourish
ing drink, diluted with wattr in 49,
proportions of two to five uer Govt
money improves the appetite. ZONES tba
system, and has proven to h. of -
value In many diseases, prod icing
contraction of the muscles NJ The i;
sestiVe organs, and as an aid IN di1oa
ton 1t Is wonderful in buildin. -,