The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-29

branches of bee culture He contri I
outes largely to magazines and period |
Gals most import matter dealing with |
he industry.
Mr. Wilder has been such close
student of his business as to make him |
1ne of the most charming converse |
ionalists regarding the habits of the |
bees. "The bee," he says, considers |
everybody and everything as an in
truder that enters the premises where |
he bee home is maintained. The bee
IS a Waterman with keen eye and a
,hrewd detector of mischief. 1t is one |
IF the most affectionate of all insects
The least infraction of established Gus |
..oms about the farms by single in
lividual will often cause wholesale
leaths which seem to come of broken
lnarts. have seen the bee die of a
broken heart as surely as it is possible
or person to suffer from distraction
IT the breaking up Of happy homes"
Mr.. Wilder is the largest bee keep
IRIS supply dealer in the south. Dur
ne the season re manufactures sew
,ral car loads Of lumber into modern
zee hives and the supplies for the
zee farms He not only supplies his
)wr farm, but he provides for large
numbers of other individual honey
,roducers all over the southern states.
K This local bee keeper is a promoter
# the industry of the rarest type. He
has given a great deal of time to adj
Using other lee keepers and starting
lem out under proper methods for
loney producing. He receives and an
;wers thousands Of letters in season
md conducts a publicity bureau on his
1ordele farm that would surprise any
me with it's large proportions
The local farm is not the largest he
possesses, but the visitor looking over
he field containing hundreds OF snow
white hives is impressed much as II
re were about to enter field OF mon
lments,-where marble slabs mark SO
many graves of the dead. The farm
lere is within the city limits and is
listed by large numbers ot<people dur
ng the season.
Mr.. Wilder's enterprise has already
crown to immense proportion and is
apidly becoming great industry.
The owner does not impress the Wis
tor as a man of great business build
ng and development, but he knows
he enterprise he is operating and GER
'ainly has a knowledge Of bee culture
ar above the average person. He
tudes the habits of the bee,-has Civ
N already hard years OF study to the
development of the bee and can give
he listener long chapters of most in
eresting experiences gathered while
PLANTING new colonies.
Mr.. Wilder states that this little
worker is of great value to the fruit
yrower all over the country. The bee
came from Asia through Rome into
england and thence to the United
States. the first colony in this country
being brought to Savannah by some
FRUIT growers who were not after hon
~, but needed an agency for scatter
ing the polin in the bleomso Of the.
orchards. These early colonizers at
Savannah complained to the English
government that they could not grow
orchards that would bear fruit and
he government advised that bees be
brought over. The remedy proved of
great value.
SO in the large orchards Mr.. Wilder
has now several farms. In the great
ceach belt about Fort Valley he main
tains fine colonies of bees and in the
Florida citrus belt the very best re-
suits are obtained where the little
bee is set to the duty of busting his
legs with the polin of the blooms so as
% be able better to scatter it.
No food is provided for the bees on
The Wilder farms. They are sent to
preserve their own supply and GER
tain fixed amount which must come
from each hive where things have
gone well with the family of workers |
IS taken away to be marketed. The |
hive is so constructed as to prevent |
moths from stealing from the bee as
ne works and the owner watches with |
great care the progress Of storing the |
honey. He can determine with ease |
rs to the amount of honey gathered |
during the working season and is pre- |
cared to take away that which can be |
had with the least possible disturb |
ance.