Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1870 — Pollen for Bees. [ARTICLE]

Pollen for Bees.

Giv« all bee* floor for pollen as soon as they begin to fly in the spring; it is as essentisJ for then* to hare it as honey. They will live on it*and water for weeks, if the weather Is so they can fly out every few days, if they have no honey. Pollen and water constitutes the chief food the queen eats When she is laying eggs. A queen in a well stocked hive, as to honey and bees, would not lay hut few, if any, eggs if she did not have pollen. Hence, the necessity to supply the bees with it in early spring before they can gather it from natural sources. As soon as bees begin to gather it, thpy feed their queens with a certain prepared food, which is constituted chiefly of pollen apd water. Bees do not feed their queens unless they are laying, or they wish them to. They then tend her regularly, and offer her food every few minutes. (At other times the queen helps herself to food as any other bee.) Hence, the necessity of furnishing them with a substitute for pollen, so as-to have them strong and populous early. For herein licsthe secret of bee-keeping. Take oats, rye or buckwheat, (either will do), I prefer oats ; get itground fine—it need hot be bolted; I feed in baskets, aS they are handy to set oat or take in at night, or if it should storm they should be set in a warm, sheltered place out of the wind. To get 4he bees to find it readily, drop a few drops of “oil of anise” near the basket and it will attract them to it.—Cor. Ulusirattd Bee Journal. w s An old man from the country was recently robbed of a satchel containing 110,000 in bonds at the New York SubTreasury. He had laid it on thd floor of the rotunda and was reading the bulletin notices, when an unknown person walked off with the bag and contents. A portrait of Mr. Gladstone, the English Premier, espied from a late photograph, 1* given on ths first page of Evixx Satvbdt for March 12. Four full-page illustrations—Kabyle Orange-Sellers, A (London) Street-Plug during a Frost, Girls Painting Tiles, Racing the Tide—and a comic illustration, entitled " Croaky," complete the excellent engravings in this number. Single number, 10 cents; Yearly Subscription, $5.00 in advance; 00 a year to subscribers for any other periodical issued by Fiilds, Osocod A 00., the publishers, Boston, Mass. Messrs. Gbo. P. Rowell A Co., Advertising Agents, No. 40 Park Row, New York, are authorized to receive advertisements for this paper at our lowest rates. We have just received from the well-known Agricultural Warehouse ot Messrs. R. 11. Allen A Co., of New York, their new Catalogue of Seeds for the Farm and Garden. This has numerous illustrations of the novelties and specialties in Seeds, and, though a handsome and expenrive Catalogue, it is rent to all applicants on receipt ot stamp to prepay postage. By their advertisement It win also bi noticed that they deal largely in Agricultural Implements and Machines, and Small ;Too's of every kind for Farmers, Gardeners and Stock Raisers' use. Indeed, they are the oldest established house in New York, and their assortment contains many articles that our Western Farmers ought to have, which they cannot buy at our local stores. So that we feel we are doing our readers a service by recommending them to send their orders to these gentlemen. See their advertisement elsewhere of their large Catalogue which every Progressive Farmer ought to have in his library. • !