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Show A FAMOUS BEE EXPERT Work of Frank Benton of Agricultural Department. INTRODUCING NEW VARIETIES Tho Cnrnlolnns, a Qood-Tempercd Bee Fiom Austria Effort to Oet Some of the Olant Bees From Borneo-Experiments Borneo-Experiments With Cyprian Queens Excellent Itenults From Crosses Want tho Matter Is With Senator Vest Tho Fight in Wisconsin for Spooncr Chinese Exclusion. Washington Aug 2S Mr Tiank nen Ion the apiarist of Iho Agilculturnl department, de-partment, starts thla week for a tour ot Inspection through Colorado Wso-mlng, Wso-mlng, Utah nnd some other Western States lie Is probably the most famous fa-mous student of liee culture In the world He spent twenty sears In Hsrla, Carnlolu and Csprus conducting; large nplnrles nnd mnklng n ihirough study nf all the minus crops mlapted tn bee lorage and the different arletiea nf hones -gathering bees One winter he make an expedition to Iloineo and with native guides went fur Inlan 1, nnd on a high precipice lis letting himself down with ropes over 200 feet suci ceded ced-ed In captuilng live large colonies of the giant bee of In II i known nn pla Dntsita He una smitten with Jungle fever on his way home, nnd In mnsequonte Ihe glint boos, got away He has hem at the head of the division of n Iciiliiue of the Department nf Ag-ilcullure Ag-ilcullure for many sears nnd hna published pub-lished many inluablc trellises on bee culture hevernl yeara ago he Intro du. ed Cnrntolnn bees from southeastern Austria, winch are being taken up by hie men In all parts ot the country In I rrference to the Italian bee, and base the distinguishing trait of an agreeable disposition With cry llltle smoking the Cnrnlolnns enn be easily hnndled without their making the slightest of-ftr of-ftr to sling Probably the most Importnnt discovery discov-ery that has been made since Lnngs-Irnth Lnngs-Irnth devlsid the modern hive has been male by Mr IJontoi within tho past two years For forty sears bee men hnve been trying to Intioducc Into the United Btatea the beea of the Island of t'sprus, known as Cyprians Through nn old puplt. who was with him severnl oirs In Ssrln, Mr Henton n few senis ago secured a number of Cyprlnn queens He had tried nil sorts of methods meth-ods heretofore nnd failed I.ngllsh Consul, nn 1 American Consuls had endeavored en-deavored to do him the fnvor to send queena to this countrs, but never succeeded suc-ceeded The Cyprlana nro famous for their Industry A strong colony hns hi en known to lay by over 1000 pounds of honey ln a yenr The Island ntaiunds In honey-producing plants, nnd the season runs the senr around The queens which Mr Ilenton secured were healths and thrifts", and he. has In en engaged since he got them In unking a great variety of crosses, using us-ing Cyprlnn drones on Cnrnlolnn and Italian queens, and also on the queens of the natlvo black species, lie haB nlso used Italian nnd Carnlolan drones on the Cyprian queens He Ins established estab-lished the great principle that the work-cr work-cr bee derives Its disposition from the drone nn.l Ha Industry from the queen M.llh this principle estnhllshed ho hns tested the t ostitis of all crosses, and found that Cirnlolin drones nnd Cs prion queens secure a worker bee lint will btlng the most proilt The 1 s prlo-Pirnlnlins, ns H105 mny be enlled have been tested thoroughly In southern California, Arizona and Texas Tex-as with handsome testilts Thes nre also found hards and thrifty In Mnr)-hind Mnr)-hind I'ennaslvnnla und New ork Wet wenthrr haa no effect on thein nn I thes nre extremely persistent hones gatherers I'erhnps the most Interesting nnl Important Im-portant trtnt of Ihla new variety of bees la theh snguclts and forelnn led-noes led-noes ln building up colonies M. hen nn unpropltloiia month arrives and there Is no hones tn gither thes turn it once to hieodlng nnd In a few weeks pinluco enormous!) strong colonies This propensity nnkes It necesnry to provide them with larger hives tlnn nre now used bs Ihe American bee-kieora bee-kieora hen tho hones How cornea thes nro reads to go at It with n lnrge force of worktrs, mil the result Is tint thes pile up nn enormous surpius Mr Ilenton Is especially Interested In the largo bee ranches of tho Hooks mountain States He his for sotrs urged that Ihe Inlustrs should ho cn-1 cn-1 couraged ns one of the most Important lo be undcrnken In that legion Thus fnr the principle liee forage In those Htalea Is furnished bs alfalfa The I aai.iutidlng succesa recently made I15 I bookeepera In .Nebraska who have sowed n large acreage of catnip, suggests sug-gests to Ml Henton tint there Is ,111 oppoitunltv for some dormant Napoleon of the beiTVorld to store n marvelous suocisH In I'lnh or Wsonilng bs going out on the public domain whore Irrlgi Hon la possible and sowing miles of catnip cat-nip This plant growa vvhenver It has tho slightest cm mil' moment nn.l requites re-quites little water In make It thrive It can be gathered nnl sold eommer-0I11II5 eommer-0I11II5 for the Immemorial uses of the herb doctor without conflicting with the hone) flow Theiefore the crop would pnv the cost of toning nnl cultivation nnd the hones woul I be clear gain It might be neceasiiv to sow In the nrld reglona 11 vorlets nf plnnla which would pioduce comb nnd pollen hut no ers grnve apprehension of dlltlcults Is felt 1111 Hint score The denuin 1 for honey seems never likels to be over-supplied nnl oven If the price shout 1 gn down lo 7 nr S cents n pound with this Ideil fnrnge and the hards and persistent character nf the Csprlo Carnlolan cross there would be laige prollts A good story Is told by nn old friend of Senator Vest who male him a visit not long ago The Missouri Senator hna been in feeble health for stveral sears nnd has announced his determination not lo be a t nihil, Into foi te-eleitton Ills friend expressed the tisunl solh . tilde about Mi vest s heilih and nsked bow he was totting along and If It were not possible for him lo regain hla old lime vigor If I knew what was the matter with me sal.l the Sen itor possiblv I rnltrnt but I do not and no e.ne else seems to know 11 makes me think of old Caleb v likes down ln N'odavvas counts I went to see the old man once when he was on the decline and nsked hlni how he was ucttlng on nnl what on earth was the matter with hlni Old Caleb straightened up and salt Oeorge I don l know I hive had ten different doctors look me over One sass It Is one thing nnl another says it Is unothei nnd thes name Just as mars diseases na there are doctors I have concluded to think thes are nit n pack of d d liars mid have diagnosed ni) ease msself Oeorge I think I am slowlv dslng of Anno Domini Oeorge" Hints all the t ton hie with me I giinsB com luded ihe Senstni 'I nm slowls dslng of Anno Domini ' Wisconsin pollthlnna In Washington were a good leal silt ml up thla week bv a icjort that Ihe feud hitweenOnv I.nl'oll lie of thnt State and Scniuoi Pimonei had h"en pal hed up and a trmo signet for ih" pending cam p-. iv The reptiu rrnvei to have no foundation T ro la no agreement be. tvveen the factions The statement was lu 1 on the oph 011 to Ii- in iwdlti Ian In vn-.hliu, 01 who mump 1 that nn agreement ha 1 been made from the tenor of nn Interview given out by a promlnetn friend of Gov IFollette Close friends of Senator Spooner In this city nt once telegraphed to the Spooner leaders In vAtstonsln to ask If this rc-lorted rc-lorted Iruce was n fact and the answer an-swer came hack at once thnt It was not th it no agreement had ben i-eoched nor sought and If nn were to he ma lo It would he put In vritlng All Indications Indica-tions from the conventions met to nominate nom-inate candidates for the I.eglslnlure lolnt to Hpooner a re ele Hon Spooner clubs nro being organised overs"hre to support the bennior un. ondltlonallj. The Chinese cxclu-ion net passed at the Inst session of ongress upplloB to the Philippine Isl.nds w lien Chinese labor has been vers gtnuall) emplosed In the past the Chinese passing 1-tvieen 1-tvieen Ihe 1-lnnds nnl China with the same freedom nceorded to other na tlonnlllles The question Is raised whether the upplientlon of the exclusion act to the nrchlpelago will not rove to me a mistake whlih will terloiisly Interfere In-terfere vvllh the piogreas and development develop-ment of the Islands Prof I W Jenkr who haa made a study of lahot condl lions In Ihe Philippines anl other colonies, colo-nies, Is ery distrustful of the success of American enterprise In the Philippines Philip-pines with the present ssstem of lalior nnd Is 1m lined to the belief that ans rentrleilons on Ihe character 01 quan-tllv quan-tllv nf Ihe supply will he harmful ll Is sol 1 thnt Oov Tnft nlso takes this Mew of the matter Mr Jenkn Is pro feasor of political ceonoms nt Cornell nnd Is the consulting expert of Ihe Department De-partment of Lnbor Having made the condltlnna In the colonies n studs for the benefit of the Nar department Prof Jenks has prepared n repoi t which will shortly bo published which denls with the question of Chinese labor la-bor In Ihe Philippines II Is the under slnndlng that Prof Jenks will recommend recom-mend thnt tho exiluslon net be so change 1 with regard to the Philippines ns to lenve the nitration of Iho a lml-slon lml-slon of the Chinese tn the Islnnds discretionary dis-cretionary with the commission Those who favor the npllcntlon of the ex cltiion act lo the Phlllptlnos declare that It will be time enough to nnen the Islnnds to Chinese persons when It shnll be established after trial that native labor Is not sufficient to meet the requirements Few" know thnt sang hunting" or ginseng gathering Is an Industrs that emplosn many poor people within a few miles ot the capital of the country All over the Appalachian rnngc from Pennsslvnnla to Georgia (here is a ass-temntlp ass-temntlp hunt for ginseng cver August and September and the mones gained from tho sale of the roots constitutes a large part of the s early Income of hundreds hun-dreds of mountaineer families Men women nnd children nil engnge In It nnd manifest sometimes great skill ln their methods of search The ginseng trade with China Is now greater than over. The nanie comes from a Chinese word signifying man" becnuse the root grows In n bifurcated was" resem-hllnr resem-hllnr the human form Scientists sas It hns no medicinal qualities whatever but mlrnculous henllng properties nre ascribed by the Chinese to ginseng nnd It commands n very high price the best specimens being sold nt 500 lo enn times their weight In silver Onls the wealthy Indulge In this costly drug hut such Is the faith of all clasaes of China ln the llfe-glWng virtues of the plnnt that even the poorer classes make tremendous tre-mendous sacrifices tn obtain It In cases of emergency. Owing to the Immense demand nnd the limited supply In the wild stnte, the farmers In China are doing n thriving buslnera In cultivating ginseng, nlthough It oommnnds only a fraction of the price thnt Is pnld for It In n wild condition Dried roots from America, bring on nn nvernge In this countr) ?G a pound J A. T. |