NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 16 January 1906, Page 4

NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS.

With good management it coafts little to keep a few hives of bees. Do not neglect to look for the queens or brood when opening the hives in the spring. No matter when bees are moved, they should be fastened up so that none can eseape. To a very oonaidier&ble extent spring dwindling is the result of poor winter management. Slave the entrance to the hivea and' (he vicinity around them clean and •onvenient for the bees to get out and ik readily. . ' The life of bees during the working . season is very abort, and it require* a food laying queen to keep up the force •I beta in the hive. The proper time to transfer bees from box hives to movable frames is early in the spring, before the comb becomes ksavy with brood and honey. Bivaa shoald ba located in good sea* *«a In Wiiatevar particular location they are‘(fxpecttd to occupy in readinew to receive the swarms as they own* of. . If any colonies are found too weak |ke spring to take care of a frame of twnad give (hem bees, from the strongest •atonies, but be careful not to give them ■. Ike queen. When the weather gets warm enough flat tka bees to fly without becoming •kitted give them finely ground cornsaeai, wheat or the finer parte of sifted groand oats. Tka Searat of large honey crops is sttaag eolenie* and plenty of room for Iks bees to store honey. Give each flmasa im . the hive exactly one and • half isehes of space. Ba not open the hives to excite the ba«a when It is too, cold for them to fly. Tha. ; ksat time to remove surplus for frames is after two or three days at honay weather. Ba not open the hives to excite the b»W when. It is too cold for them to ftf. ...The best time to remove surplus lor brood frames is after two or three 4aya cd good honey weather. If in the spring any of the colonies are found without queens give them a Ahum of brood.- Do not allow the colonies to rear queens until drones are hatched to insure mating. —St, Louis ■She "S*oou» eagles which used to haoat the Lakes of Killaraey, making flbadr homo in tka “Bagie’sNcet” monotaSaw.aad hvlßg oc srrouse and kids farms along ,the countryside, SM Mexican government is prepar)ag"tb take decided steps to improve the 'bre'ed'of horses in that country. oj a law which has Just been passed President Dias is empowered to enter Into contracts with persons who will establish horse-breeding farms.

province of Quebec i« 293 yearl Montreal, 259; Toronto, 199.

he carat used in c.sliraati«g the ■ i,,ght of gems is a grain- of Indian wheat. Toffee is planted 400 trees to the i and the yield averages a pound a tree. The cultivation of sugar extended from India to Persia some tune in th< ninth century. A floating bottle dropped in th« Gulf stream will cross the Atlantu in about 180 days. - English beekeepers average 6( pounds oi honey from their hives, American only 20 pounds. The United States grants 25,004 patents a year, England only 8,000 Canada grants 4,000 a year. London’s tire brigade puts out a fire at an average cost of £4O. New York pays £l3B for the same service, and Cincinnati holds the record with £295 per fire.

The only occasion upon which a peer or peeress wears a coronet is at the coronation of a sovereign. At the moment when the archbishop oi Canterbury places the crown on the head of the new monarch every peer present at the ceremony dons his own coronet.

The invasion of London by American visitors has reached unprecedented proportions and never before have there been so mimy wealthy Americans in the English capital. At one fashionable West end hotel a dozen multimillionaires are staying with their families, and money being spent with a prodigality which the British “old nobility” must regard as demoralizing and detestable.