The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-30

any account which they gather is from the cherry pear. apple and other fruit trees. The next is from the locust blossoms: then from the tulip trees sike and red; the clovers in this section yielding most of the honey for the year Later on the bees gather from the lin- den trees where there are many. Eve ry section, of course, has its different flowers and trees. which yield a harvest for the bees.
 Wax for building the comb is pro- ten pounds of honey being consumed in the making of one pound of wax. The bees secrete the wax in tiny scales un- derneath the body and remove 1t as they need 1t for comb building.
 Thirty Years' Observations.
 MT. Faucett. has as already noted. been in the bee business thirty years and Is an enthusiastic apiarist. work ing these days from early morning till late at night among his hives. Some days he will have as many as ten swarms and these naturally keep him on the jump. However. by clipping one wing of the queen, he makes sure that the colonies never go far from home; and by getting her in his wire QuCcH CdScp Hc 6oou- HdS HC COlohy cnAS~ I1y back in the hive. The bees swarm ed twice the other morning. and. just for curiosity, MT. Faucet weighed one swarm and found 1t to be eight pounds without the swarm catcher. This rep resents about 36,000 bees, as they run about 4.50o to the pound.
 Now. bees swarm for various reasons.
 sometimes because they want more room. or the old queen wants to abdi- cate as sovereign and give place to younger one. When there is a revolu- tion in the colony and the old queen Is superseded in swarmfng time. two or three young queens go out with the colony and one queen will sting the others to death, for there must be but one queen in a colony. Queens have been known to reign four years. but are generally regarded as unfit and super seded when three years old.
 MT. Faucet begins in March to see that all of his colonies have satisfacto-
 ry queens, and if they have not. he buys them in the South, Later, in fruit bloom. he examines them again. re- moves all queens that are too old and sees that their wings are clipped so
 that they will be recognized as unfit and remain in retirement. Next he
 builds the weak colonies by giving them young bees just hatched: later by
 giving a full frame of brood just ready
 to hatch. He has found this to be the best method He never puts on sec
 tions till the bees are strong, sections
 are put on before the honey comes in. our cold springs chill in the brood and do them harm.
 Prevents Mischievous Diversion.
 If they swarm and the honey Is com ing in. he takes the old queens and frame of brood and bees enough to cov- CT 1t and puts them in a new hive with cop,ha and fhic will hiild i'm into a fine colony. The old colony he gives
 sections and keeps them strong. In eight days he destroys all queen cells and lets them have a young queen. raised by the Pratt method.
 As soon as the cases are full of honey he removes them and puts them in cupboard, where hot water pipes keep the temperature at about 90 degrees. He does nothing with old colonies, after removing the sections till September. when he sees If they have enough sur plus honey to winter on. Sometimes
 if he has not the filled comb of honey
 he adds to the supply a syrup of one third honey and two.thirds granulated sugar. and lets the bees rtpen 1t and seal it for winter stores. In October he puts a Hill device over the frame which leaves a small space for the bees to move around. and on top of this q piece of bagging. or four inches of oats chaft or ground cork. During the extremely cold weather of the past two or three winters hundreds of bees per- ished. however
 Fifty pounds of honey from colony
 In year Is an average amount. but MT. Faucet has colonies at present which have finished 64 sections. It Is estf- mated that a colony of bees has to make 15o pounds of honey a year to give surplus of 50 pounds to the apia- rist.
 A great deal of honey is carefully ex- tracted from the comb and the undam- aged comb Is returned to the hive, year after year. We saw quantities of the amber liquid in immense tin cans. ready to be bottled for shipment. Much of
 this Is sold to candy manufacturers for the making of high priced sweets. hon.
 ey being preferred to sugar on ac-
 count of its purity and flavor
 Fear Spells m Apiarfst. MT. Faucett has made a financial suc- cess of the business largely because he does not flea rthe bees, and because of
 his untiring efforts and keeping up with the times in the latest and best methods Nine-tenths of the men who go into the business fail because they
 are afraid to handle the bees. he says. Among some of the pioneers in bee keeping in this section were Dr. Penn
 Worrell, who invented the Worrell hive in 1875; Dr. Morrison. Of Oxford, who imported the Carmolian bees and raised them; Francis Dazenbaker, the paten- tee of the Dazenbaker hive. and also of the inventor of the dove-tailed cor ners used in hives, now made all over the United States. and at present E. IA Pratt, of Swarthmore. the inventor of
 the Pratt system of queen rearing, now employed all over the world. Thomas Darlington, of Westchester. now 90
 years of age. Is one of the oldest men | in the business. .... | Solomon said: Go 70 the ant, thou | sluggard consider her ways and be
 wise, which, having no guide. overseer
 or ruler. provideth her meat In the
 summer and gathereth her food in the harvest" Solomon might with equal
 propriety have said this of the . bee,
 which certainly vies with the ant in
 wisdom and industry, and apparently
 Is just as wonderful.
 I Jessie Bowles Fisher, | If You Would be Popular.
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