Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1858 — Bees in the Spring. [ARTICLE]

Bees in the Spring.

Sometime ago we published an item stating that if bees were allowed access to oil cake, the quantity of thrir honey would, be thereby increased, as our authority stated, •everai hundred per cent. But honey alone, or its constituent materials, is not all that bees requiie; for as a correspondent of the New York Tribune states, pollen is also needed to make “bread” for the young bees. The weather .may be warm enough and the bees lively enough; but until the bees afford pollen, they have no material to work upon to enable them to be in season with the new brood to produce early swarms. A Mr. Sturtevant, of Cleveland, Ohio, asserts that he can bring bees forward two months earlier by the very simple process of feeding them with unbolted rye meal placed on boards near the hive. They "pitch into it at. once.” As of late years bee-keeping has become a favorite and often a profitable amusement with thousands, and as no class of “pets” can in these respects be compared to them, it is not impossible that a .knowledge of the facts above mentioned ’may prove acceptable to ma'nyi Bees are like trees—it costs very little to start them, they maintain themselves with very little attention, they are pleasapt to observe and in the end profitable.— -Philadelphia Bulletin. A- Boy Hanging Himself to*. Frightkn his Parents. —In Middlesex, Yates county, New York, a few days since, John R. Francisco, aged about fifteen years, went out into a shed attached to his father’s barn, aud suspended himself by the neck with a rope. He told some little children who were with him to run into the house, as lie was going to hang himself, and from this it is supposed that he did not intend really to commit suicide, but expected some one would come and release him. ‘A Fair Offer, —Lieut. YV. D. Porter, late of tile United Slates Navy, sjjys that the merchants of New York should employ a pilot boat, armed with a long nine-inch shell gun, to convoy their vessels free from the coast of Cuba. A crew of thirty men will answer; and if they want a volunteer for that and one who will pledge himself to return the fire of the Styx, they can call •on him. ■ -j;7 QTj-A certain Irish attorney threatened to prosecute a Dublin printer fur inserting th» death of a living person. Tne menace concluded with the remark that “No printer should publish a death unless apprisod of fact by the party deceased.” A. New Regiment.—Orson.Hyde, a Moruion High, 4’rit'st, says that “if the Lord .spares hi mi add lie lias good luck,” in ten years inure he xvilL-have sons enough to .make a regiment bv themselves. ~ L your boys a trade, and learn them to depend upon their own resources, 'ard they will make shrewd smart men. small pox is raging at Plymouth. Some three or four cases have proved fatal. emigration from Ireland now averages about 100,000 a year. United States .and England.