. Eastern fruit. Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life. EASTERN ERUIT HINTS FOR THE APIARY Practical and Timely Notes for Bee Keepers. fWritltii expnssly i> Irank (i. I xlell, (if , Nfh.) "Why should the fruit grower keep bees?" Because lliey are a vahiable and almost indispcnsal)le agent in pol- linatiiin of fruit h1n>s(ims. Every up- to-date fruit uniwir -hould have beo in his orchard or gankn. M' than six colonics for cmtv ;nrc lie culti- vates. Have plenty of l)ci'> and the problem of pllinali(>n is solved. "Rut the bees will destroy ; Who sa
. Eastern fruit. Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life. EASTERN ERUIT HINTS FOR THE APIARY Practical and Timely Notes for Bee Keepers. fWritltii expnssly i> Irank (i. I xlell, (if , Nfh.) "Why should the fruit grower keep bees?" Because lliey are a vahiable and almost indispcnsal)le agent in pol- linatiiin of fruit h1n>s(ims. Every up- to-date fruit uniwir -hould have beo in his orchard or gankn. M' than six colonics for cmtv ;nrc lie culti- vates. Have plenty of l)ci'> and the problem of pllinali(>n is solved. "Rut the bees will destroy ; Who said so? "C)]!. we Ikim- vccn them sucking the juiee froui grape-, peaches, ; Undoubtedly; !)ut that does not prove that tlu' In (,- damaged the fruit originally. It is physically impossible for the h<iney bee to punc- ture the skin of a grape, plum or peach; its mandibles are n<»t built for that sort of cutting, as a simple ex- amination nncler the microscope will show. What hap|»ens is this: The early birds, warblers, robins, spar- rows, etc., poke a hole in the fruit. or it breaks open when over-ripe and the bees g^ather up what wouhl other wise be entirely wasted. erably east; the bees which get the first rays of the morning sun are the first ones in the field. There are abr)ut fifty thousand workers in a good colony. An hour on the working day of fifty thousand bees i-- \\orth a lot in honey harvest. 1 )o not give the bees too much shade: "Under the shade of the old apple tree" sounds fine, but the branches are apt to hang low and catch the bee keeper's veil or knock his hat off when the bees are flying ihicl<cst. Excessive shade makes bees l,i/y. hastens rotting of hives and is geiurally undesirable. Set them where they have the shade of a grape vine or -ome low-growing shrub, or where they are protected from the excessive ht;it <if the late afternoon 'â un. wliich collies down the hotte-^t .about four rcaking out when heavy
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