The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-17
FAIRFIELD

Owing to the severity of the wealth
Ct there was not much of a crowd
yesterday morning at the 9th annual
institute of the Greenh.Ad Country
club. ar 1870, the hour set for the
beginning of the exercises, but by
noon the theatre of he club house
was crowded, and at least 200 gentle
mon and ladies were present from
this and many surrounding towns.
The only disappointment was the alb
sence of George V. Smith. who was
to speak on Poultry for Profit. he
telephoned that he was snow bound
In Columbia. where seven inches of
<the beautiful had fallen and 1t was
impossible for him to catch a train
in season The president of the clue,
Simeon Bradley. in calling the meet
ing to order, said it was like great
family gathering, and he was sure All
would pass an agreeable and proht-
able day. The first speaker was Rev
Z H Olmstead, of the Greenfield
Hill Congregational church. He
thought he could give practical spir-
1tual consolation but agriculture was
not quite In his line. He saw many
men present whom he never saw at
his church. but now and then ne
saw O few Of them at funerals. Some
one had asked the question how to
make anything grow on a Connecti-
cut hill top. He would say a few
words OF the blessings and opportuni-
ties OF country life. and added that
IT0m 1TSenuGiu x1AA OiAC NOAA0
al the kingdoms Of the world: He
related the. story Of the school teach
<r who desired to know II one OF her
pupils had been paying attention Sne
was saying that both the Engilsh
sparrow and insects are destructive.
she asked the boy IL this was true.
He said he did not know; he had mad
worms but never had sparrows. Mr.
iOlmstead said that both Of the Sen
ators from Connecticut had disgraced
A~~ ~ In
we cannot have better Senators GOD
save IN ALL There Is much the Con-
necticut farmer has to be tnankIuI
for There Is one advantage in living
in = small state. for it is easy easy to to get get
best excise bills Is supported by
Connecticut farmer. and he gave
.hieh praise to tho worth and inte-
gr4ty Of farmers. IT is not fair, ne
lid. to lay a state tax on the no
had for the keep Of criminals made
BY the license towns. He stated that
fully $4,000 Americans have gone TO
the northwest Of Canada, and they
lara They tell great stories about
the land IN that country: A man can
start 20 pillow q furrow In the spring,
and keep blowing until fall and har.
vest his crop on the way back. 1t rs
not the amount farmer raises, but
fhe price he gets for his produce.
The main thing LIS to get good prices
6fxty-five cents out OF every dollar
melts away between the farmer ard
the consumer. One doesn't nave TO
fhiurs. but still country life can be
broadened. How few men in coun-
try districts go to church 1t is>one
of the blessings many do not seem
view Of country life. All social and
spiritual influences are for good.
The next speaker was Lyman G.
Root, Of Stamford. a famous bee
Keeper who used to run bee farm
In the Mohawk valley, n. Y, OF 5oo
OF civilization there was the honey
bee, and that the Indians regarded
the coming Of the honey bee as the
,harbinger Of the white man. Bees
fused to live in hollow trees and the
smoking out and killing the bees with
birthstone In time the movable hive
was invented. and later the comb
could be removed from the hive. Now
the honey h thrown from the como
and does not have to be strained.
The bees consume Is pounds OF honey
20 secrete one pound OF wax. To
save this waste the honey is taken
from the combs and the COMBS nos,, are
Honey can be taken from a comb
or times a year, and combs will
last 10 years. This saves the time
Of the bees Mr.. Lyman described IN
q very interesting manner the life Of
the bees in a hive. the wonderful
things they do. how the queen bee
II produced how she acts, and told
bow far bees will go to get honey.
I.e has known them to go eight miles
and to fly up hills soc feet high.
This tires them out and they come
back exhausted. There are not
enough bees in Connecticut to prop
erly fertilize the blossoms. Every
farm should have at least one swarm,
and this should give from SO to 100
pounds of honey every year. He
would keep. a swarm of bees if he
had only a dry goods box to put it
m A hive does not make honey.
There should always be a hive ready
when the bees swarm. An hour lost
and the bees may be lost The age
of a honey bee is from tire to six
weeks They work themselves to
DEATH Young bees must be con-
tinually coming on. The queen bee
will lay as many as 1900 eggs in one
day For general purposes the Ital-
ian bee is the best His first Italian
queen bee cost $50 and he regarded
that as cheap. He had taken as much
rs Al pounds of honey from one
hive. I'm The Mohawk valley. There
the bees feed on the linden tree bios
SONS which make the best honey. It
would take hive holding bushel
of bees to make the amount of honey