Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — THE APIARY. [ARTICLE]

THE APIARY.

Hoc Note*. No other legitimate business pays half so well as a stock of bees judiciously/ cared for. Millions of pounds of honey are lostt annually for tho want of a sufficient stock of bees to gather it in. A. I. Root, In Bee Culture , says there Is no clover equal to alslko, for bees or stock. The bees always go from clover head to clover head, and never from clover to any other kind of flower. Every farmer should keep bees to take care oi the honey secreted in the millions of flowers blooming In his orchard, meadow, glade, and glen. It Is estimated that to collect a pound of honey from clover, 02,000 heads of clover must be deprived of nectar and 3,750,000 visits from bees must be made. Beks are no rospectors of lines, lands or persons, but roam at will for miles around In quest of honey, which thoy carry home and store away. They gather it from every nook and corner of God’s domain, unmolested by landlord or tenant. A stand of bees In any of the improved hives should contain not less than 100,009’ workers ready for tho field. Such a stand would be cheap atslo, for a colony of this strength will store several hundred pounds of honey during the season. They should have ample storage capacity. Perhaps no other occupation is mor©’ suitable or half so profitable to the invalid as boe-koeplng. Thousands of invalids all over this broad land, both men; and women, could begin bee-keeping with little or no capital, and as their strength increased allow their stock of bees td multiply in like proportion until both bee-keeper and bees grow strong and vigorous.