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Show PLEA FOR BEEKEEPING. I know that It Is claimed by somo writers that tho honey crop Is on tho In-. In-. writes M. Aiken In Agricultural Hpltomlst. Perhaps It may be In ono way. large scalo hero and there private cnterprlso may bo furnishing much honey Ilia city markctB, but that which I speak of relates to the keeping of enough ' for our own home use. Almost every farmer In the old dajB provided his own tnblo with this henlth-of henlth-of sweet foods, but In theso days ho docs without. And yet what Is raised on farm which so amply pays for Itself, with so little labor and outlay of feed. wi' I can remember hearing old ladles say that tho eating of much honey a preventive of cancer. I cannot say as to Its medicinal qualities In this tut It will allay Inllammatlon nnd thus keep down disease of an Inllamma-cHiructcr Inllamma-cHiructcr along tho digestive tract. V.liy do not more people keep becs7 There was a time when old-fashioned and ci oss bocs might huvo frightened some people nway from the Indus-lut Indus-lut now bees aro progressing ulong the line of civilization nnd education. ycem to tindcrstnnd that the sting, and tho poison It conducts was rot given t to go to battle with but to add tho drop to tho honey which keeps It from Hug Italian bees ore singularly docile in this line, the Syrlun beo Btlll more Thcro uro tjpos of honey bees In South America that do not sting at all, but nt they will not llvo In this country. It Is very likely that somo time, by !n. wo can get them acclimated The Italian bee, taken nil around, is our "II bee Its tongue Is long enough to dip even Into the red clover for honey. Ill crawl nto flowers that other bees, especially the black bees, shun. It ork on days so cold that other been would not think of venturing out. Hllo thero sepma tn bo natural born bee workers and perrons born Immune 1' " poison, yet anyone If he would only muk up his mind could havo bees to' i should be Bet facing low tieeo. Here Hie bees will mako a first stop, uy soung pcnon, either boy or girl, can lendlly learn how to get them n emptj hive which Bhould always be ready for such cases In swarming " A good bee vtll nnd calmness aro tho main requisites. A boo roon scents ftvons person and resents being handled In r shaky way. Another thing, a " business Intent, seldom Ftlngs After they swarm thero Is llttlo danger "lags, just as there Is llttlo danger whon tho bee Is loaded with honey. |