Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-12-15
LARGELY ATTENDED
FARMERS INSTITUTE


ed up in the TANKS and has a jerky
respiration commonly called the
''thumps.
The first measure should be thor
ough cleaning up OF the houses and
yards The hog troughs should be
kept thoroughly clean and disinfect-
ed The task of thoroughly disin-
fecting the hog houses, yards, troughs
and fences is not an easy one but the
free use of a spray gun with five per
cent carbolic acid, bichloride of mer-
curry, one dram to each ~allon OF wat
err, or creolin one per cent will do
much good in the way of disinfection.
Medicines which are given by the
mouth or in the feed are OF little or
no value. Many so-called hog chol-
era cures are put on the market, but
they are fakes pure and simple. 1t
is an easy matter to get testimonials.
Passihcation of the mind may do as Il
"placebo" but if the hogs get cholera
they will need something other than
talk. There is one method OF pro-
ducing immunity against hog cholera
and that is by serum injection.
Wesley Foster, state bee inspector,
in his remarks on Bee Management"
said:
The behavior of the bees and their
habits are affected more by weather
conditions and the changing seasons
than by any other causes. This fact
has led writers to call bees creatures
of sun and warmth and lovers OF the
summer time. This is true because
flowers are the same. In all nature
no more beautiful relationship exists
than that of bees and flowers. All
unconscious of the harmonious CO.
operation existing, doubtless the bees
and the flower are. but the true lover
OF nature can see it just the same. AS
the sun sinks lower with the approach
OF fall, the nights become cool and
the flowers are unable to keep up
their nectar-producing functions.
Nectar secretion is an act OF love
on the part of the flower-it is the
wooing of the bee, and nature needs
warmth for love making. Physical
nature controls the most tender of
instincts. Lovers cannot induce the
tender passion with the thermomc-
ter around zero, but get next the fire
and all is different. Man and bee
and flowers are all under the same
law.
As bee keepers, there is no one
study that would be more profitable
than that, of the behavior of bees at
all seasons OF the year and under all
the varying conditions of the seasons.
Ii calls for the highest art of the true
nature lover and the accuracy OF the
scientist.
A dry burlap sack placed in an
empty super body over the frames
and the hive cover over all is a nice
snug way of holding in the warmth
of the cluster and keeping 1.-The bees
dry. One of the practices that ] am
sorry bee men fall into, and from
which it seems hard to rescue them,
is using burlap. oil cloth, etc. over
| their comb honey supers. So many
beautiful white combs and white bass
wood section honey boxes are plas-
tered all over with propolis or bee
glue" which the bees gather in the
| fall from the buds OF trees and these
sacks and cloths just encourage the
bees to cover our pretty white honey
with it ii the sacks are over the SUI
pers of honey. Nearly every super is
provided with a bee space and all That
is needed is to see that the bee space
is accurate and that fiat honey board
or fiat cover is over the sections.
/ might go on and tell OF hundreds
of ways in which we might improve
our practice. but what we really need
is fine pride and enthusiasm in bee
culture. If we love the work we will
do it better. Nothing on the farm
pays better for the care required and
money invested than bees, and if we
could have a revival of the religious
art of bee keeping, there would be
more sweetness in our homes.