Arizona republican., 1917-02-25
PROFITS
 OF BEES
By E. A. HadselI, Buckeye, Arizona

(By E. A. HadselI, Buckeye, Arizona)
 History tells Us that honey Was an article of commerce and one of the articles furnished the laborers in the building of Solomon's temple. The Bi- bic refers to honey as a standard of good things and describes a good coun- try as q Land flowing with milk and honey
 With our mild climate. or rather winters, bees flying almost continually and dairy cows wading in alfalfa ev- cry day of the year. our valley should have that title. The two great in dustries go together to promote, health. wealth and happiness.
 About eighteen years ago l came to the Buskeye Valley with a few thor ough- bred Holstein heifers and a few loads of bees, which placed through out the valley where they could fer tilize the alfalfa bloom for the entire valley, which only had few acres planted at that time. The bees did their part thoroughly and large yields of alfalfa seed was the result. About twelVe thousand acres were soon plant ed. The seed yields rapidly increased and sold at good prices. Our valley is now famous for its vast alfalfa fields. for seed ha" and pasture. The
 
 proportion. Three auto trucks gather up the cream from OUT valley daily and land has jumped from five ts5.00) dollars to two hundred (S200.00) dol lafs per acre since l came here. The busy bee and their owners nave also been rewarded for the work they did m fertlizng and indirectly making the Buskeye Valley what 1t Is today.
 l will let q dairy man tell what they have done and l will go back to the year 1851. two months before l was born, when Rev. l.. l.. Langstroth of Dayton. Ohio, invented the first prac- tcal movable frame bee hive. the frames to lift out of the top. l.. Adda Sago of France, also invented one at ibout the same time on the same prin- ciple. Mir. Berlepsch of Germany in- vented similar hive about the same time, but it opened at the rear and was not as convenient in getting out the frames.
 The first paper on Bee Culture, The American Bee Journal. was started at Philadelphia by Samuel Wagoner, in 1881. therefore the first nine years of my life was spent without knowing what the outside world was doing. bu, father had few colonies in nail kegs and To" gur- "hich he turned over to me to look after l would tin them up and peep in trying to get glimpse of the king bee, as the queen was then called. l wondered they had so many fat drones with no sack to carry honey and was glad to see them killed off and was anxious to take the combs out and learn more, but they were all fast. l used to pry the lid off and rob part of their honey. but it was a sticky T. .,..l, I considered cruel. Some bee keepers burned sulphur under some of the heavy ones to kill and rob them. thought that was still more cruel. so invented Q movable framed hive and transferred them from the log gums and, on coming to Arizona, about 30 years later, l found large apiaries using the identical hive l had invented, the frames being deeper and shorter than the Langstroth pattern. l am still using both kinds.
 In 1859 Samuel Wagoner imported the first Italian queens from Italy and l soon introduced them and found them better bee. also a big advantage to determine life of the bees and many other points. As they had bright vel low bands it was easy to determine their purity. With bee journal, nov able frame hives and Italian bees, the bee industry made more rapid progress. All of the first regular correspondents for the American Bee Journal are now