The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Bees on the Farm 
What a Woman Can Do 
Part II. 
Wasted Nectar. —When I ride over 
the country, see and smell the many 
Alsike clover lields in bloom, I think 
what a shame it is to have all that honey 
go to waste for want of bees to gather it. 
Many of our farmers sow Alsike, and it 
is among our most valued honey plants; 
the farms in this part of our country 
with their beehives in evidence are the 
exceptions rather than the rule. If one 
lives where the common White clover 
grows naturally, and there are no large 
bee yards near, he would be reasonably 
sure of a good return from bees. 
Starting Right. —If you become in¬ 
terested to the extent of trying your luck 
with bees, start aright in the matter of 
hives.. No difference how handy you may 
be with tools, do not make the mistake 
of making your own hives. There are a 
number of good machine-made hives on 
the market, and it pays to have them, 
because they are cut true, spaced pro¬ 
perly, and the furniture, such as brood 
frames, section holders, etc., so accu¬ 
rately made that what will lit in one 
will fit in any. Decide which suits you 
best, then stick to your choice. Hives 
of different styles in the same yard are 
a nuisance. Do not spend much money 
for a fancy stock of bees to begin with. 
You probably know some bee-keeper who 
think they have no individuality. I find j 
some colonies always till their sections 
neatly and others will build “bur combs” | 
and stick them where they have no busi¬ 
ness to be. like disorderly housekeepers. 
The difference is in the queens, who are 
really the mothers of the colonies. 
Controlling Swarming. —To this day 
I am not able to hold my nerves steady 
enough to pick a queen off the comb. My 
hand trembles so when I try that I am 
fearful of hurting her. I have picked 
many a one off the grass in swarming 
time without a tremor, but going into “my 
lady’s chamber” and molesting her seems 
a different matter. So I have never 
clipped my queen's wings. I prefer to 
control swarming by the use of an ex¬ 
tractor, or let them swarm in the natural 
way when I want increase. But I always 
look in the grass in front of the hive for 
the queen if I happen to be on hand when 
a swarm is coming off, and if I happen to 
be fortunate enough to get her it sim¬ 
plifies hiving the swarm. 
Neat Honey Making. —Help the bees 
to do good work by giving them up-to-date 
equipment. I once showed comb honey 
at our county fair. I was standing near 
my exhibit when a couple of young women 
came up. One of them called the other’s i 
attention to the honey and said : “That 
Removing 
a Crop of Honey 
would be willing to sell you a swarm at 
swarming time, and hive it for you if 
you will leave a hive with him for that 
purpose. Then if you go after it at once 
you can bring it home and place it where 
you want it to stand, and begin to famil¬ 
iarize yourself with your new workers. 
Reading and Study. —You’ll find 
money invested in a good text book well 
spent. I am frequently called to the 
’phone to answer bee questions, yet all I 
know I have learned from reading, plus 
experience, and my experience has only 
proved to me the truth of what I have 
read. Someone else had made all the 
“discoveries” before I did.- I will admit 
it is a help to see an adept handle bees, 
and yet when you come to do the things 
for yourself you will probably find that 
you have your own way of going about it. 
Two people seldom find it easy to do 
things just alike, and the book I used, 
“A. B, C of Bee Culture,” is so arranged 
as to be readily consulted, like a dic¬ 
tionary, and all the processes so plainly 
described that it seems to me any intelli¬ 
gent person can be self-taught. If you 
secure a start as I have suggested it will 
likely not be necessary for you to do 
more handling the first season than to 
place the sections on the hive and take the 
honey off when it is ready. Your text 
book will tell you just how this is to be 
done, and there are appliances to make 
the work easy. You will want to look in 
occasionally to see how they are getting 
along. They may need more sections to 
fill before you will suspect it. and you do 
not want them loafing on the front of the 
hive for want of room to store away the 
honey. If you find yourself gaining in 
confidence, and you want to see how it. 
looks in thee brood chamber, you need not 
hesitate to try, but select some warm, 
bright day when honey is coming in well 
for your investigation. Then carefully 
open the hive in the middle of the day. 
Most of the cross old bees will be in the 
field then, and young bees, nurses, drones, 
a few guards and the queen all that are 
at home to receive' you. You can com¬ 
pare a brood comb with the illustrations 
in your text book and learn to recognize 
the different, kinds of brood, and how 
healthy brood should look and see if you 
can find the queen. Be careful not to jar 
the bees nor make any sudden, quick 
movement. Bees resent that. Never 
strike at one that comes “buzzing” at 
you. It is probably only “bluffing.” Keep 
quietly at your work, but if you find your 
nerve failing you, walk quietly into some 
enclosure until you collect yourself again. 
If you show tight, remember, you're likely 
to have one on your hands, and that the 
bees are more than likely to win out. 
Also, l>e careful to replace the frames as 
they were. A queen does not like to have 
her housekeeping upset, and you must not 
is artificial honey. The bees never made 
that honey! Father keeps bees and they 
always get the frames all daubed up. 
You can see that wood is all new and 
clean. It has never been in a bee hive.” 
I stepped forward, saying, “Pardon me, I 
but that happens to be my honey, and I 
took it out of the hives myself, so I know 
that it is the real article. Besides, there 1 
is no such thing as artificial comb honey.” J 
She just looked at me, but as she hurried i 
away through the crowd she said some- ! 
thing to her companion. I did not catch 
her words, but her whole manner said. 
“My! What an awful story!” Now, I 
think she was honest in her belief. Her 
people were likely keeping bees in a “bee 
gum” and knew nothing of improved sup¬ 
plies and methods. That old canard of 
manufactured comb honey seems so firmly 
fixed in the mind of the public that it is 
hard to dislodge. Extracted honey may be 
adulterated, but the bees have a patent 
right on comb honey that man has been 
unable to infringe upon. The only way 
to adulterate that would be to get. the 
bees themselves to help you by supplying 
them with syrup to carry in. and I have 
serious doubts of that being profitable. 
It is so much easier to let them find their 
own syrup. You may not like some comb 
honey. It may not taste like some you 
have had before, but remember that the 
bees gather their stores from different 
sources and that accounts for the differ¬ 
ence in flavor and appearance. But you 
may be sure, if it. is in capped combs, 
the 'bees put it there. There is a vast dif¬ 
ference between White clover honey and 
that gathered from buckwheat or the late 
Fall flowers, such as smartweed. 
(loon Returns. —In the years I have 
kept bees I have found that they have 
paid well. There has never been but one 
season when they were in debt to me. 
That was so dry they had to be fed. j 
Every other year they have made at 
least plenty of surplus for home use, and 
one exceptionally good season I took 
-•■156 lbs. of honey by actual weight from 
-0 stands. Spring count, and increased 
to 29. Try at least one hive for home 
use. Those who succeed will soon keep 
more. Everyone will not make a success 
of beekeeping, any more than at other 
things, but no one knows what he can do 
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