South Bend news-times., 1917-06-30

ask is good place for their little
house 10 stand They will willingly
travel miles 10 gather their wealth
never failing TO get back we'll loaded
/ 10 the home hive When once well
at work the care of the colony is
almost nothing. At swarming time
they must be looked after. At all
other times the thing that they
labove all things desire is to be left
alone.
Fruit Growing Convenient and
Profitable.
1t has long been known that fruit
culture and poultry culture 20 well
together. Each one supplements the
other. But fruit growers have re-
Gently discovered that the honey bee
is one of their greatest co-workers
I'm the production of the biggest and
choicest crops The little worker
sees the snowy flower at a distance,
and seeks il Tor the honey that he
can extract He pushes resOluteIy
60 the center of a fruit blossom. and
comes forth bearing not only the
sweet nectar which he sought. but
also the pollen dust, which some
how must be borne 10 another bios
som of different variety on some
distant tree. ON he goes, and with
out intending il. he bears the pollen
dust 10 the other blossoms and the
essential work of cross pOllination is
accomplished
1t has been proved that large or
chards have failed to produce be-
cause oi the lack of the services Of
the honey bee. When the apiary
was established at the edge of the
orchard. large fruit crop was regu-
larly produced. Fruit farms are for
this reason taking up bee cuIsure
as secondary and supplementary
industry. The fruit orchards furnish
working grounds for the bees. and
the bees do the vital work of fertil-
izins the fruit blossoms Some so
per cent OF the work of cross pollin-
alton has been found TO be perform
Ell by honey bees.
Thus it is seen how vitally the
fruit orchard and the apiarc are
related The poultry plant and the
fruit orchard are just as naturally
and vitality related The domestic
fowl was oricinally a bird of the
jungle Her delight is 10 forage i'm
the dense shade. digging about the
roots OF shrubs and trees. capturing
and devouring endless numbers of
insects. and gathering from the ma
tive soil a hundred and one kinds
of stuff about which YOU and / un-
derStand nothing. but which she
rapidly manufactures into personal
property for the increase of our
holdinss
Thus the fowls forase i'm the fruit
orchard with much profit To them
selves while at the same time they
return 20 the fruit. shrubs and trees
culture and fertility most needed.
I study and Experience Much i'm
Demand.
Bee culture ON a large scale re-
Quires expert knowledge and large
experience The same may be said
OF fruit culture. Each is a skilled
occupation. 40 one can master all
there is in them i'm a year. or in five
years
HUT the pouitr1mar is 20 handle
them i'm strictly subordinate way.
He is 90 be an expert in his main
line e-he may be a skillfull amateur
only iu his two side lines. He should
not be-in bIindly. \ few dollars in
vested I'M the most down. -tO-date
books ON his two chosen supple
ments 10 his main business viii he
the best investment he can make at
the be-innins. The price of the
books viii return % him manifold
within twelve months
People plunge bIindly into bee
culture. and get "Stung i'm more
senses than one The honey bee Is
roo busy tc prosecute war for
conquest only. Her weapon is for
defense. II handled wisely she viii
use 10 only in self-defense. Like
the grizzly bear and many other re-
putedIy "ulood-thirsty animals the
honey bee is perfectly harmless
and neiSaborly creature. The sea
s0ned apiarist Will handle them
with bare hands. he viii let them