The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-14

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colonies. But she is just as depend
ent on her family as it is on her. In
other words, it is the bee teamwork,
the pulling together of the queen, her
workers and even her drones, that
make bee life SO successful.
Exhibit Is Good.
The bee exhibit at this years big
free fair is about the same as 1t was
last year, no larger and no smaller.
And, of course, it will not be any
larger until the free fair association is
in a position to set aside more money
for premiums for it. The fact that It
is as large as it is under the present
allotment of premiums is rather re-
markable, and is fine testimony OF the
appreciation of bee exhibitors of the
merits of the Topeka free fair. They
will be able to show their wares to
many people and perhaps interest a
sufficient number of them IN pee
culture to recompense them for set
ting up their exhibits, even if the pre-
miums they may win will not be suf-
ficient to pay a small part of their ex-
penses-
Mr.. Priddy had just 1892 to divide
among first, second and in some in
stances third premiums Cor exhibitors
in the apiary department, and in order
to make the individual premiums as
worth while as possible he reduced the
number of classes of exhibits from the
twenty-seven that there were for last
years fair to seventeen for this year.
Among this years exhibitors are G.
C. Galley & Son. of Cozard. Neb, whose
special displays this year are alfalfa
honey and candied honey. The latter
| is honey in a granulated form, that Is
especially adaptable for medical use.
or for the preparation of prescrlp-
| tions in which honey is an ingredient.
And this graduated honey is easily
reduced to a fluid, or strained honey
condition merely by heating 1t.
All Forms of Honey.
o. A. Keene, of 1900 Seward avenue,
who has a bee farm east of the
city limits and near the Topeka In
| dustrial institute, where he has as
many hundred stands OF bees, has
an unusually large display Of honey
in almost all of its forms, cakes of
beeswax and a colony or two of bees
| in glass houses.
| A r. Smith. whose farm is on r.
F. D. No. 1 out of Topeka, has an ex-
hibit of white honey in the comb.
A. v. Small, of st. Joseph, Mo-, who
| is one of the big and prosperous bee
men in this section of the country,
has confined his display this year to
bees only, and his bee-in-the-flesh
speciality is the 3-Banded Italian
variety.
| W. A Durham, of Topeka, is the
other exhibitor, and not the least in
teresting feature of his exhibit is
| specimens of the flowers and plants
both the pollen and the nectar-pro
ducing variety, which the bees show
| their Partially for at different sea
sons of the year for their honey
making.
Climatic conditions affect the bees
| just as they do all other things that
are adjuncts to agriculture and hor-
ticulture. Extremely wet weather in
terferes with their work. and a con-
| tinued spell of dry weather burns up
the plants or the flowers from which
the bees get their honey-producing
| nectar.
Hard Working Insects.
But the bees have more brains or
instinct than the corn-stalk. and they
are quick to take advantage of their
| opportunities. So despite the wet
| spring, which delayed the bees in get
| ting under way at full steam ahead
| for two or three weeks. and the long
| dry spell that ran ON from midsum-
mer until recently and which burned
up most of the plants that the bees
work on, the latter nevertheless put
by an abundance of honey this year.
| There was periC in between the wet
| spring and the drouth that has just
| been broken which was ideal for bee
activities. and they worked overtime
| during it
Some folk smile at the proyerbial
and because the he, she and its among
| them do nothing but eat or sleep in
their hives during the several months
of the winter season, but the bee is the
| busiest thing on earth or in the air
when it has a chance, as is evidenced
| by the honey yield in this section of
| the country this year when the bees
made as much honey in few weeks
and when the time was ripe as they
| do ordinarily during an entire sum-
| mer season when weather conditions
are continuously favorable for them
and the flowers on which they labor.
| The bee men are generally enthu-
siastiC over the lee prospects for the
immediate future. They say the bee
is coming into its own again on the
farm and ir the orchard, because the
agriculturists and horticulturists of to-
| day are rapidly realizing and appre-
| ciating the facts that the bee is not
only a money-maker on it's honey
yield, but is also far more servicea BILE
| and sure than the wind as pollina-
tor, not only of fruit blossoms, but
also of garden and field plants, such.
for instance, as cucumber clover and
| buckwheat, just to mention a few of