The independent., 1907-01-31

market at that season OF the fall was
Improbable. The introduction Of the
honeybee in these mellon fields has
not only remedied this want, but has
produced one of the finest honeys ever
tasted by man, /. e., a mixture Of the
nectar of alfalfa and the melon bios
som, and today melon growers would
as soon dispense mith their plows and
cultivators as with the honey bee in
their melon fields.
Editor e. Whitcomb Of the Friend
Telegraph, whose pen is as pointed as
the business end Of one Of the bees
who compete with the tripod for his
interest, prints the information given
above in his paper of last week. In
common with other bee keepers, he be-
lieves that the farmers would make
money by keeping bees even if the bees
themselves never made expenses. He
adds this further advice to Nebraska
bee keepers: "In all the country east
of the sixth principal meridian the
pastures are overrun with white clover
and the dandelion is to be found along
every roadside. AS these tame flowers
push westward the opportunities of
bee keeping in Nebraska are pushing
westward with it. and when Horace
Greedy invited the young man Of the
east to 'go west" he should have
added, Take colony Of bees with
you" In Bookkeeping as well rs with
all other industries the greater amount
of room is to be found at the top
There are three essential qualifications
to a successful bee-keeper, promptness,
carefulness and thoroughness. To
neglect a colony of bees at the proper
time during the spring or summer
months means an entire failure Of re-
suits 1t is as important in successful
bee e-keeping in this state to follow a
system of stimulative feeding about
four weeks in advance of the different
honey flows which come streaming
along during the whole season as it is
for the successful farmer to feed up
his work horses for the spring and
summer work, or to place his machin-
cry and tools in order for the work.
At the commencement of the honey
flow the number of worker bees in
the hive which are less than thirty
days old are the working capital Of the
up-to-date and successful beehive, and
no keeper in the state has to my
knowledge yet succeeded in securing a
great amount of honey from a colony
not we'll stocked with bees of the prop
er ages. Young bees are the wax
makers, and older ones the honey gath
erers, and in fact they die while out
in the field gathering nectar to be
evaporated ard stored in the hive
either for the use of man or genera
tions of their kind yet unmatched"
Perhaps few Nebraska boys. or men
either. know how to construct water
telescope. Nebraska is too far from
deep water for that, peShaps. The
Syracuse Journal tells a story, how
ever, of how a water telescope for use
in the Nemaha saved a valuable piece
of property:
Friday last, while working on the
dam Just west Of town, Jim Eaton lost
his gold watch in the Nemaha. He
got a garden rake and fished around in
the stream, which is about four feet
deep at this point, for some time. but
failed to find the timepiece. Jim
valued the watch very highly, not
alone as a timepece, but from the fact
that 1t was a gift from his mother.
and pasted on the inside of the case
was the photograph of his deceased
wife. and he offered good price for
the recovery of the watch.
JAS itdIulHE ittih vi AiAt AoaH, anu
with a piece OF gaspipe and a piece of
glass attached over one end, viewed
the bottom of the creek for a short
time. He soon located the watch,
which was brought TO the surface by
means of the rake
'Mr Eaton offered TO pay Harding
$40 for his trouble but Jim said s.
was enough and accepted that amount.
Hardings knowledge of subterranoan
exploration served him we'll"
Who ls the Nebraska editor of long
est continuous experience on one
paper Until recently there was no one
20 dispute the honor with George Cross
OF Falrhury. who had engineered the
Gazette for thirty-seyen years Rut
he sold his paper short time ago.
Thereupon the editor OF the Exeter
Enterprise remarks Gee, but this
tlekles this editor lie has been wait.
Ing ten years 10 be- the oldest editor
In Nebraska aud that man Cross has
always stood la his way To-day right
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