Janiarv. 1922 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



43 



''And, oh, (it'iir liusbniul, forgive iiic for 

 being so cross and unreasonable. I don 't 

 know what is the matter of me lately. I 

 have cried and cried over the unkind way I 

 have treated you, especially because you 

 take it so meekly. Please forgive me, and 

 I will try, oh so hard, to do better." She 

 imagined she hud been difficult to get along 

 with. The truth was she was suffering from 

 the malady that took her away, and I 

 didn't know it. Suppose I had not heeded 

 that gentle voice of conscience, and only re- 

 called it after her sudden and unexpected 

 death. I have had at least one experience 

 along that line; and had I not made that 

 apology, the sorrow and remorse would have 

 doubtless followed me until the day of my 

 death. Ye fathers and mothers, whose eyes 

 rest on these pages, take warning ere it is 

 too late. 



Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord 

 from henceforth : Yea, saith the spirit, that 

 they may rest from their labors ; and their 

 works do follow them. — Rev. 14:13. 



ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS' WORTH OF 

 HONEY FROM ONE COLONY 

 IN ONE SUMMER. 

 Over $50.00 Worth of Honey from a Two- 

 Pound. Package of Bees. 

 Now perhajjs you think I am going to say 

 that the above was done here at Medina; but 

 it was accomplished by a good friend of 

 mine who lives at Jamestown in North Da- 

 kota. The two-pound package that did the 

 big stunt did not come from Medina either. 

 It came from our good friend Ault. He 

 is the one who got out the new package, as 

 you will notice by his advertisement, for 

 shipping bees long distances. Perhaps you 

 will wonder if I am not going to add that 

 the honey came from the new Hubam clo- 

 ver; but I am compelled to say that it did 

 not. See the letter below from our good 

 friend Bennett: 



I put in about 45 acres of the white biennial 

 sweet clover all within the city limits and within 

 one-half mile of my home. In fact, my home and 

 this field are both on the same quarter section of 

 land. You will perhaps remember that my home 

 property lies along the river for about a block and 

 that Klaus Park skirts the other bank and that 

 just beyond the park li&s the field seeded to sweet 

 clover; part in the valley, part on the hill. 



I have 40 swarms of bees now and they seem to 

 be doin? very well considering that part of tliem 

 wore shipped in, rather late, from Texas. Last 

 year I had a colcny that cast one swarm and the 

 two produced 360 pounds of comb honey, and as I 

 sold all the honey I wished to for from 40 to 50 

 cents a pound, it made a profit hard to beat. One 

 two-pound package produced 160 pounds of comb 

 honey, which i.s not bad. F. C. Bennett. 



Jamestown, N. D., .Tune 13, 1921. 



When I was out on that trip to see the 

 electric windmills at Wyndmere, N. D., while 

 visiting friend Williams, who has one of the 

 mills, he gave me friend Bennett's address, 

 and I called on hiju. May the Lord be 

 praised for what has been accomplished, not 

 only with sweet clover but in the way of 

 making this land of ours a "land flowing 



with milk and honey." And you will no- 

 tice we get milk and honey "all the same," 

 even up as far north as the Dakotas and 

 Canada, where they used to say, a few 

 years ago, that it did not pay to keep bees 

 because there was nothing for them to get 

 honey from. 



Prohibition Up To Date. 



In the Sunday School Times of October 

 30, Miss Margaret Wintringcr gives us one 

 of the best world-wide temperance articles 

 I have seen. If possible, get the Times and 

 read it; then go back and read it again. I 

 clip from it two paragraphs, as follows: 



PROHIBITION A WORLD EYE-OPENER. 



Nearly forty years ago the children marched 

 thru the streets of Chicago, singing "Saloons must 

 go." I shall never forget that day, nor the face 

 of Frances E. Willard, who wrote the words of the 

 song, as she heard it sung. It was of one seeing 

 a vision. She was seeing not the sneer on the 

 faces of some of the unsympathetic spectators; she 

 saw the promised land. Not long after, an Illinois 

 liquor association demanded and secured the dis- 

 charge of the man who had dared to teach the 

 children of a big Illinois city to sing "Saloons Must 

 Go," for a State W. C. T. U. Convention. The 

 saloon was learning the menace of the children's 

 song! Soon Luther Burbank, one of the nation's 

 greatest scientists, vised the words of the children's 

 song with the message, "Sooner or later, the saloon 

 or the race must go." 



War Prohibition went into effect July 1, 1919. 

 Its enactment saved the nation one hundred and 

 eighty million dollars in money, and greatly les- 

 sened the difficulties of demobilization. Under war 

 prohibition thousands of boys returned to their 

 homes in safety. 



Talks to Beginners. Continued from page 39 



is to find out if they have enough honey to 

 carry them thru the winter. By weighing 

 the hive and contents, then substracting the 

 weight of a hive filled with empty combs 

 and allowing five to ten pounds for the 

 weight of the bees and the pollen, the ap- 

 proximate amount of honey can be deter- 

 mined. If they have less than 20 pounds of 

 honey at this time, they are in danger of 

 starving before much nectar is available in 

 the spring, and if they have only a few 

 pounds they are in danger of starving at 

 any time. 



Feeding bees that are short of honey dur- 

 ing the winter in cold climates is difficult, 

 so it is important to see that each colony 

 has enough before the arrival of cold weath- 

 er in the fall. Beginners, who find colonies 

 in danger of starvation in winter, can save 

 them by laying a block of hard candy, made 

 of granulated sugar, on top of the combs 

 just over but touching the cluster of bees, 

 then covering the hive snug and warm with 

 an old blanket. Cubes of sugar can be fed 

 in this way in winter. 



Colonies should not be disturbed by feed- 

 ing or any other way in winter, unless nec- 

 essary. Colonies that have 10 to 15 pounds 

 of hon«y should not be fed until later. They 

 usually do not eat more than two or three 

 pounds of honey per month during midwin- 

 ter, 



