El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-23

bee sting cure. The first time he was
given seven stings on his rheumatic
! limb During the week following the
swelling began to go down. The sec
ond week nine stlngs were administered
and Loan threw away his crutches for
canes. The next time he asked for
( 10 stings, but received only 13. The
following week he was able TO be about
! the streets.
A few years ago an old man took
the bee sting cure for rheumatism be
/ fore a crowd of 4 thousand people, at
a field day for bee keepers at Jenkins
ton, suburb of Philadelphia. One
! big bee keeper says that he frequently
receives large orders for bee sting
/ poison, some of them reaching as high
| as 10000 stings. In taking the stings.
frame of live bees is placed before
an operator. He catches them one by
| one with a pair of tweezerS. He forces
the sting out and with smaller pair OF
tweezerS extracts it and places it in q
wiz onno'tho6 herle partially filled
with sugared milk. The homeopathic
scLVoI ..-edic.nc long has used bee
sting poison as specific.
Bees Have Government
It used to be believed that a bee
colony was a sort of an insect repub-
ilc, OUT iater students have shown II
TO be species of orderly anarchy
There is no sort of legislative, judicial.
or executive body discoverable. A kind
Of supreme democracy. government
by common consent. exists. The titular
head of a colony is a queen, but she
exerts no influence except as she in
creases or decreases the prosperity by
her industry in egg production. The
regulation of the arrival of a new
queen is in the hands Of the workers.
who make special cells and keep special
food for the rearing of a new queen.
| If the reigning one is not as prolific
| as the colony likes. they build new cells
and she herself must lay the egg which
! is destined to hatch her successor and
| mayhap end her reign. The special
| food stored in the queens cell is called
| royal jelly
Queens Made to Order
Ingenious man has usurped this func-
| ton of the worker bees, and the modern
( apiculturist is able TO produce queen
| bees at will. A mechanical device is
| used to press wax into the shape OF
| queen cell, just as it is made by the
bees. This artificial cell is placed in the
| colony, the egg deposited. and the bees
| bring the necessary supply of royal
jelly. Practically the entire CONNER
| cial supply of queen bees is produced
| in this fashion. The application of
human mechanical ingenuity to bee
|
normal habits Of the bees, but il als'
! has afforded them protection from
many natural enemies which they could
| not, themselves, combat. Freezing, a
| lack of food in dry season, and many
| other calamities meant humiliation OF
| free colonies. The bee keeper protects
| his brood from such disasters. Yet the
/ liberties of the bee are somewhat re-
! stricted by men who confine queen 20
| a certain section of her realm by means
| Of cunningly devised screens, who ar
| range peculiar entrances and exits. and
who control the very lives of all the
| bees. 1t would be interesting to know
| what the bees think about this human
| interference.
Scientific Investigations An Aid.
/ All bees are Matched from identically
| the same kind of eggs. Their sex is
| regulated solely by the character OF
the cells in which the eggs are depos
| tied and the kind of food given to the
larvae. 1t is said that the drones are
| killed off at the end of the season by
the nurses Withholding their allotment
of food. Many devices have been in
vented TO kill the drones artificially
as they are voracious eaters Drone
guards. which prevent the lazy old fell
lows to get out but prevent their get
ting back, are much used. At last,
however. it appears that the bee mar
tin, kind which hitherto has been
regarded as a dangerous enemy of the
apiary, is to be freed from odium and
! is to be welcomed as the champion |
drone destroyer. Biological investi- |
cations carried on by the department OF |
agriculture show that the bee martins |
principal food is the drone bee and |
that il seldom attacks a worker bee. /
Changes Bees Home Periodically
h lot \
idea in agriculture. He suggests the use
of an airship so that the out-apairies |
may be located in any otherwise
inaccessible territory where they |
may grow rich with honey from
the unbroken forests He thinks |
that in this way the opiculturist
could look after many colonies where |
he is now able to attend only to one.
One of the bee journals recently con-
tanned a picture of train of three !
farm wagons drawn by a traction en-
CINE and loaded with colonies of bees.
They were being taken from one pas
turage TO another. Sometimes bees |
are removed from place to place in whole I.
carload lots. and it is important that |
the comb shall be parallel with the rail. I
a strange law of bee instinct shows |
up in this moving of colonies. If they |
are moved several miles they will first |
fly around the hive after being released, !
make an extended reconnaissance and |
then settle down contentedly to work. |
Eu; if they are moved only a quarter |
OF a mile less, they invariably fly |
back to their old haunts and, if they ]
find no hive there will then go to |
their new home. Bees were transpor ted |
up and down the Nile more than 1000 |
years ago to keep pace with the chang !
ing conditions of bee pastures
Bee May Be a Trespasser
Has a man a legal right to a bee
pasture? This is a question that is agi-
tating many bee keepers. Is the bee
trespassing when il gets out of its
owners lot or is it a creature that is
not bound by the laws Of line fences?
This question is now being argued pro !
and con wherever bee keepers meet.
but no decision has been reached.
Without SINGERS.
Singles bees flourish in South Amer
lea. Some of them have been brought
to the United States and are being stud
lea for the purpose of ascertaining
whether profitable methods of bee cul-