| Show w yr R aly r 10 ot am till ir V q aa rt I 1 la X give the bee a c chance b ance anti and it will literally break bieak the boughs ot of your trees with the weight ot of fruit frank G odell of lincoln neb bee roaster master who gave a series ot of demon st atra rations tlona with bees at the national apple show in spokane made the foregoing observation in the course ot or an interview discussing beekeeping and scientific agriculture and fruit growing tie ITO said the bee la the expert assistant ot of the horticulturist and the fa farmer riner so indispensable are its functions in the pollination of fruits vegetables cereals and grasses that its activities may be said to lie at the foundation of 0 all on BUC agriculture nature has ordained one supreme law that ot of creation the perpetuation of the race type this law universal in its application and absolutely identical in its form obtains in the plant world pa as in the animal world the luscious pulp of the fruit Is the envelope the package the strong box devised by nature to protect the seeds within from injury and render it susceptible of germination so that the type may be reproduced in all its perfection the bee like other insects effects incidental pollination of flowers in its search for nectar but its great value to the fruit grower lies in this that it goes to the lowers flowers specifically to gather pollen literally by the carload in the hairy baskets on it its legs hastening from bloom to bloom rolling and packing and literally rioting in the golden dust pregnant with the germs of 0 plant life until the golden pellets pe lets aro a pj packed away it hair a ii baskets to br bp carried to thit he hive for storage as aa an indispensable portion of the food of its young during the winter months to bonte zonte ome it requires no expert knowledge to comprehend how perfectly the bee thus performs the office of pollination indeed it is ria natures tures chief agent in this indispensable work no seed no fruit Is the universal law hero Is tho the only insect useful in all its habits having a fixed habitation accessible to man dependent upon the pollen of every variety of flower as an indispensable portion of the food of its young and going to the bloom ape leally to gather that pollen thus making possible the marvelous fruit crops lit in washington and the northwest that la Is why I 1 say give the bee a chance and it will literally break the boughs of your trees with the weight of fruit delve into the realm ot at applied or structural engineering and your search Is incomplete until a lesson Is conned from the structure of the honeycomb with its ts marvelous roar strength as compared with the fragile nature ot at its fabric no more marvelous structure exists exist a among the myriad marvelous works of nature this waxen fabric derived primarily from liquid honey converted concerted into wax in that marvelous laboratory laboi atory of at the bee formed by same mysterious instinct or intelligence into the very form of 0 all others designed for economy of materials space and extremity of strength passes beyond tho the measure of human skill la in its perfection somewhere between 1744 and 1768 it haq discovered that wax la Is produced between the plates on the lower aide of tho worker bees abdomen it was john fl hunter unter the celebrated anatomist who discovered just how the bees secrete wax and thereby settled a vexed question lie he communicated his big dla dis c covely very in a paper read to the he royal society of london february 23 1793 wax Is a produced at the will of the atlee ee and when called tor for by the feces sity elty of the hire alye the wax producing bees obtain a somewhat higher temperature pera ture usually by clos clustering though they sometimes hang in blender festoons fes and chains wax to la not chemically a fat or and those who have railed called 1 it I the fat ot of bees have grossly erred yet it Is ia nearly allied to the fats fata in atomic constitution and the physiological i conditions favoring the tha formation of one are curiously similar to those aiding in the product oln of the other we put our poultry up to fat in confinement with part light to BO be arror bodily inactivity we keep warm and feed highly our bees under tinder natures teaching I 1 put them themselves sOlves up to yield wax under condei conditions so go parallel that the suitability 0 the fattening coop Is ia vindicated Clie in hta his says that on ilip tha inner olda of the elgh eight t the 10 lower aid side ot oi the alij domen bonien are about glands front from which the wax ax is secreted ai aa a white liquid which hardens on exposure to the air it is evident from the best beat authorities au thorl that the form and method of wax secretion berti were knowin as early as 1691 and possibly at even an earlier date the extraordinary economy of the use or at wax Is shown by the fact that the hive of eight to ten gallons capacity will yield but about two pounds of wax when melted according to dr donhoff the tha thickness of the sides of a cell in a ww now comb a only the 1 leoth part pait of 0 an inch cheshire states that he found some that measured mea suied only 1 part of an inch notwithstanding the fragile of the boney honeycomb comb it Is still sufficiently strong to carry the relatively im load of sweets stored in its cells cell the perfection ot of insect abor la Is shown by the fact that human ingenuity has never teen ren able to make artificial honeycomb the tales talea con can manufactured honeycomb are aio i fig pigments figments ments of the imagination consider that any machinery devised for manu fac fracturing turing honeycomb would make all parts alike in similar sections sec tlona likam ino ine carefully two or more moie one pound boxes of honey at your gro grocers cero and yoi will note tho in the finish of cap cappinus pings arid and building the comb fast to the wooden casing which will at once convince you of the genuineness of the article not enot only does the bee excel as nn an artisan but also as a chemist its ito honey i stomach Is abe most chemical laboratory in the world eforo the nectar of the flowers to Is transformed from a highly diluted sweet 1 a of speedy fermentation j into n the h most at perfect food product known this chemical change inverting the he sugar according to the chemists phrase Is undoubtedly accomplished complis hed lit in the laboratory of the bee during its short flight from the field to the hive this chemical reaction Is so delicate that no laboratory aside from that oame of tt beo bee can successfully accomplish it consider the queen bee the sole and undisputed monarch or of her empire Ln endowed dowed with powers superhuman she governs without exercising visible authority rules without coercion her subjects go about their tasks with that cheerful zeal seal which ran can only accompany toll fully band and offer to men torn into factions of contending opinion an ideal social state where every member of 0 the community la is a toller toiler and all are prosperous peaceful and content the queen bee Is solo sole mother of the race all life from the egg that great biological axiom Is exemplified in a the hive lve the queen mother passing rapidly from comb to comb places a single egg lit in each selected cell laying the inconceivable nurit number tier of to in 21 24 houts this labor represents in a single day the expenditure of physical subs sub stane equal to two and one halt half times the weight ot of her body consequently she he does not ovon even tees feed herself being always accompanied by a devoted group of maids of honor worker bees whose office it Is to bring lit in profusion the tha choicest predigested food to their ruler not tle lea least st of the wonderful powers of tho the queen its it that of pre predetermining determining the sox BOX of the offspring which shall result from eggs precisely alike alfke under the microscope but ut which in fit turn may eventuate in a worker drone or queen as their mother may elect |
