Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-12-01

ives in the rocks but often swarm in
hollow trees. When this is the, case
the same method Of collecting them
is used. In order to lessen the danger
of being painfully stung by the swarm,
it is sometimes necessary to feed the
bee honey water solution to pacify
them and make them more easily
handled.
Glazier now has about 80 swarms
Of bees working for him out on the
hills of the surrounding country Il
have about II or Is more located that
l can take up when the opportunity
presents ITSELF" he adds, his infectious
smile lighting up his face.
They're Like Humans
"Bees have many of the same char
acteristfcs as humanss" Glazier
states. During hard times, when
there is little honey to be gathered,
they will rob other swarms. They
will never admit hungry bee who
is stranger, but the latcn-string is
always out to strange bee who is
full of honey, and they will never keep
tout young infant bee though he may
be a stranger, states he.
There is only one Queen bee in
hive and She rules the swarm, Glazier
J. has observed. Undoubtedly there is
some system of assigning the work to
the working bees, but it has never
been discovered fully. The only thing
that is known about this system is
that certain bees are assigned TO
gather honey, others water, and still
others pollen from the flowers and
plants in the fields. When a bee is
assigned to carry water, he never
carries honey or pollen, it has been
observed by students Of their actiV-
tiles.
A working bee does nothing but
work, and has no part in the repro
duction of the species. It's life is be-
tween four and eight weeks, mainly
during the honey flow in the spring
and early summer, when most of the
honey is gathered. The working bees
are constantly dying in the field, and
it falls to the Queen bee to lay suf-
ffcient eggs to maintain the swarm.
; Queens Lay Heavily
An interesting feature of bee study
! is the fact that the Queen bee is the
only living thing known that pro-
dutes it's own weight in eggs. The
Queen bee, which is larger and Of a
more decided yellow color than the
others of the swarm, lays between
1000 and 5000 eggs daily, approx
mately three times her own weight in
"a hours.
During the spring and summer
months, when the honey is being gath
cred, an average swarm Of bees num-
Der between 10000 and 100000, which
decreases between 5000 and 5000
in the winter months when practi-
cally no honey is gathered. Bees feed
on the honey which they themselves
make.
San Diego county is the greatest
bee section in the country, according
to statistics in the hands Of GlaZier.
From the 80 swarms that are working
for him, approximately a ton of hon
ey was gathered during the past year,
which is doubly interesting when it
is said that one working bee gathers
less than a teaspOonful Of honey dur
ing it's lifetime.
Doesn't Rob
! On one occasion Glazier took ap-
proximately 200 pounds Of honey out
of hive found in the hills. He never,
robs the bees of their honey, leaving
them to starve, but in collecting the
sweets, also takes up the bees and
cares for them.
"But don't the bees ever sting you?"
is the usual question that people
ask Glazier.
/ Eyes, indeed" he answers; "but
after living for some time in Calf
ornia I don't mind mere bee sting"
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