Milford chronicle., 1910-06-10
Bee KEEPING At The GRANGE.


of very great interest to the Grangers last
Saturday, by Mr. Benedict, of Lincoln,
who is a bee specialist He kindly ex-
hibted a case of Italian bees, also hive,
sections and all the equipments necessary
for the making OF honey. Some cases Of
fine honey we're on exhibition by Mr.
Benedict and Mr.. Rosa,
Mr.. Benedict said the most important
thing about bee-keeping was the hive a
hive to be easy to get into needs to have
the bottom boards so you can lift the hive
from it, and the cover so you can take it
off. The supers should fit on the hive
they are filled with a starter as a founda-
tion, and if the hive is perfectly level
the bee will build the comb straight and
all right. When the super is partly cap
ped over, the bees will work in the middle
sooner than in the top super. He only
puts on two supers, some only use one. If
too many are used there will he a lot of
unfinished sections. He uses the bee way
sections. Mr.. Rosa has fence, and he
thinks the fence separator the best. Where
the honey flow is short the eight frame
hive is all right, but the ten frame hive
is the one for this section. He has a
honey extractor at his home be uses a /
knife to cap the honey and then puts the
frame in this extracted and the comb left |
intact ready to be put back into the hive.
Starters are used to hive a swarm on, for
the reason that the bees do not have much
room to hive in. A new swarm will make
all worker comb the first year, as a rule.
Bee keeping ought to be of interest to
fruit growers, as the bees are worth
great deal in fertilizing fruit blossoms, as
It has been proven that one section of a
tree where the bees could not enter, the
fruit lid not set, or was very small. A
person growing fruit on large scale
ought to have a few hives in their orchard
when the fruit blossoms need fertilization,
as bees will not go far away if the wealth
er is not good.
He had fruit every year, where he
lived, plums and cherries mostly, and his
neighbors did not, SO he always laid it to
The bees fertilizing the blossoms
The breed of the bee is an important
matter The wax worm is trouble down
here and the Golden Italian bees get those
worms out and do not allow them to 90
into the hive, it also brings more honey
into the hive. The Black bee makes the
smooth Gaping, but the Italians are more
gentle to handle.
Thesverage life Of bee is three months,
tile honey flow from six to eight weeks.
A drone cannot go into hive this time
OF the year. The queen that he owns
came from North Carolina three years
ago and is now at its best. The drones
are not allowed to stay over the winter in
the hives. The honey is spoiled if the
queen gets into it.
In opening a hive, he raises the cover
about one-half inch and gives them a few
puffs ofsmoke to stupefy them somewhat,
but be advises not to handle them in cold
damp weather Take clear sunny day
and the warmest part thereof for this
work, and you will be in less danger of
being stung the best way is to keep cool
around bees, they know in an instant
when you are afraid of them, the only
way is to be protected.
A bee can only sting once, but this
does not kill them. There is a stingess
bee, but their bite has been found worse
than a sting. When bees get to robbing ,
they will sting everything in sight. Ifa ,
horse ever gets stung, bind the swellings a.,
with hot cloths.
II the swarm is quite a distance from 7
the hive, put it in basket and carry it
to the hive and shake the swarm in front :
of it put the new swarm where the old
hive was and then you will not be bother
ed in changing the old hive to new
stand
The alsike clover is good for honey.
He buys his hives from A. l. Root, 5
Blind Street, Philadelphia. Il
Mr.. J. J. Rosa said II do not know Z
why farmers do not keep tees, every :,
blossom must be polenized before it will
bear fruit. There is no trouble about
keeping bees. have always claimed that
f any person were not afraid of them,
they would not sting them. l do not
know how many swarms we have hived
Ibis year, some of them in different a
places, and do not think was stung d
more than two or three times do not A
mind that We kept bees in New York il
State and believe that It's better territory p
or keeping bees than in Delaware, as I
10 not think they have done any more
han t. make living, for the past week. Il
We had a neighbor in New York, who o.
iept bees one Sunday afternoon we saw By
We men tearing through our orchard and is
ne hollered out Them is my bees n, IN
hey had gone into a hive with our bees. IN
never saw anything of the kind before in
Z since. My father said: If those are Sn,
onr hoes. whv. take Them I think SUI