NOTES FOR BEEKEEPEERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3619, 13 January 1906, Page 4

NOTES FOR BEEKEEPEERS.

v With good management it costs little ■ to keep a few hives of bees, t Do not neglect to look for the queens or brood when opening the hives in the L spring. No matter when bees are moved, they' I should be fastened np so that none can i escape. i. To a very considerable extent spring f dwindling is the result of poor winter i management. Have the entrance to the hives and ’ the vicinity around them clean and ••convenient for the bees to get out and ff in readily. i- The life of bees during the working fe- aeason is very abort, ana it requires a , food laying queen to keep up the force m of bees in the Live. J The proper time to transfer bees from box hives to movable frame* is early in v, the spring, before the comb becomes heavy with brood and honey. Hives should be located in good s«a----f sen in whatever particular location rrthey are expected to occupy in readiness to receive the swarms as they p some off. II any colonies are found too weak u] I l» the spring to take care of a frame of . brood give them bees from the strongest if. colonics, but be careful not to give them *“■ the queen. When the weather gets warm enough lor the bees to fly without becoming ' . chilled give them finely ground cornmeal, wheat or the finer parts of sifted , ground oat*. The secret of large honey crops is strong colonies and plenty of room for ' the bees to store honey. Give each s Inane in the hire exactly one and • half inches of apace, i; Be not open the hives to excite the < be«e when It is too cold for them to fly. The beat time to remove surplus for brood frames Is after two or three days •f good honey weather. I- Do not open the hives to excite the bees when it is too cold for them to fly. The best time to remove surplus ■ for brood frames is after two or three days of good honey weather, j If in the spring any of the colonies are found without queens give them a j’ frame of brood. Do not allow the colonies to rear queens until drones are batched to insure mating.—St. Louis The ;aivous eagles which used to haunt the Lakes of Killnrney, making tiheiv home in the "Eagle’s Nest” mouam.u living on grouse and kids Jisou. the farms along the countryside, tt*v« been exterminated. T&k Mexican government is preparfcpg to take decided steps to improve the breed of hoists in that country. By a law which has just been passed President Dia* is empowered to enter into contracts with persons who will ootablisfc horse-breeding farms.

province of Quebec is 593 years a'. 2. r ,y; Toronto, 109. . ;>e carat used in estimating the vu ,ght of gems is a grain of Indian v. 1 “at. ; ..free is planted 400 trees to the , and the yield averages a pound ""e- ---■ cultivation of sugar exteudee flndia to Persia some time in the

u century. \ floating bottle dropped- in the C.ulf stream will cross the Atlantic in about ISO days, English beekeepers average 5( p. :mds or honey from their hives A ucrican only 20 pounds. ’he United States grants 25,00( r p-nts a year, England only 8,000 Uc.mcla grants 4,000 a year. London's fire brigade puts out o fire at an average cost of £4O. New York pays £IOS for the same service, and Cincinnati holds the record v, i;h £295 per Are, The only occasion upon which a peer or peeress wears a coronet is at the coronation of a sovereign. At the moment when the an-hbishop rl Canterbury places the crown on tm head of the new monarch every pew present at the ceremony dons Ins own coronet.

The invasion of London by American visitors has reached unprecedented proportions and never before base there been so tna-ny wealthy Americans in the English capital. At one fashionable West end hotel a dozen multimillionaires are staying w,i): their families, and money is_ being spent with a prodigality which the British “old nobility'’ must regard as demoralizing and detestable.