Evening journal., 1907-09-02
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to be at work IN the vineyard and so
many grapes dwindle and shrivel ar
ter their visit has given plausibillty to
the slander that they injure the grapes
But they only suck the juice from the
injured grapes. A bird or another in-
sect has pierced the grape and the bee
finds the puncture and proceeds imme-
dlately to suck out the Juice before O.
spois. ! heard of vineyard Keeper
ia New York state who gave credit
TO the bees for the fact that he had
reputation Ia the market for sending
nothing but perfect fruit He said that
he could not discover the tiny punc-
ture OF the bird or .somc insect but
that tiny puncturc was sufficient 20
cause the grape 90 spoil before Il
reached the table OF the consumer. but
the bee came along and discovered the
puncturo and proceeded Immediately to
put the grape On such q condition that
he could readily recognize its condition
and he would throw it out and the
remainder OF his fruit was sound and
would stand the journey to market
The Farmer Should Keep a Few Bees.
Every farmer &c he docs not keep
bees should bo thankful to his neigh
hor for keeping them for the value TO
1.-THE products Of the FARM or maybe he
may be indebted to the bee tree in the
woods or 90 some crevico in the rocks
where the bees have made their home.
/ The bees would pay too. in the value
of the direct products OF the hive. I
know "a farmer who said he paid HE
trent from the money ho got FOR his
honey ] was talking recently with "a
farmer who kept fifty colonies of bees
land not only did not set any honey
from them hut did not make any att
tempt TO get the honey. lie kept the
bees for the value they were
10 the products OF his farm and orr
lchard. I told him that they would be
liust as valuable TO his farm II he se-
icurcd from five 20 ten dollars worth
lof honey from each colony.
/ In many homes son or daughter
lcould be interested in bees. Let tho
ifarmer buy a good colony OF bees for
his son or daughter and let them have
1.-The profit as well as the care of tho
lbees, or let the good housewife give
some OF her attention TO bees and she
wiu find that there Is not one-tenth Of
the labor which is required FOR flock
OF chickens. One good colony Of bees
will bring IN as much annually as a
dozen chickens and there VIII be nc
feeding or constant care. The reason
that many do not succeed with bees
lmay be found IN the fact that they
lstart out with a poor colony and do moi
lapply modern methods They hesitate
Ito eXpend the money necessary FOR 9
lgood outfit. one who did not know
lanything about bees came 30 me and
lsaid: "A swarm Of bees has come tC
lmy place and ! want YOU 60 hous'
Them for me-" Now there were two
ways Of doing this ! could have pu
Them IN an old box. or kog and d
lwould have cost him about 25 cents
but he wanted them housed just az
if they were my own-that is, VIII
modern methods ! did SO. and whel
they were properly housed it cost hin
lSAO0. but within five weeks ] took o
that colony sixty sections of as fine
honey as was ever made. worth I'm The
I, market about $1,000 Had he housed
them in the 25-cent method he woul'
! mot have had cents worth OF honey
j Ilt also paws to have good bees. ThI
common black bee cannot volnpet,
r with the Italian bee. It will not pro
duce as much honey. neither will
{ protect its home as well from the moth
lIt is seldom that the moth can maxi
b any headway againt the Italian bee
but &C frequently completely destroy
the whole colony Of the common hlacl
! bee.
TO keep the Italian bees where Their
.are so many black bees not only IN tn
lapiaries Of our ncighbors but IN TIN
! trees in the wood. Il is necessary q
have the modern hive with frames tina
can be readily removed so that tn
queen can be removed and a new queer
substituted when they become mixc'
with the black bees. AS long as
8 pure Italian queen purely mated re-
8 mains in the hive that colony will b
pure Italians. but when she dies o