Show that we are living in a land flow in ing 13 with milk and honey has lonn long 0 since been evident this immense quantity has not been so noticeable noti cable until recently when it seems asif as if creameries crea meries had sprung upon up on every hand many of the young people here must have given this matter a thought as to ul whether lether there is actually a gr greater ertter honey yield than in some of those old countries of europe which are completely covered with flowers that there is a vast difference between the amount of honey made here and there is evident from the following durino during the summer of 1885 the writer visited mr joseph of zug switzerland this gentleman was one of the largest bee raisers of central europe and used all the latest improvements known to bee raisers such as movable frames ex tractors etc ile he informed me that when the season was very favorable he could average 0 ten pounds to the swarm those people who still use the old straw hive he said averaged about five pound the writer tended to four swarms last year from which he took eight and one half five gallon cans of honey and would have made more if they llad been baen tended stil better mr david buerkli author of the famous almanac said that the honey yield of central europe had been very poor for the past four years the last being the worst whole libraries have been written about this rems remu kable insect its uses and culture the oldest people of the earth the eg egyptians aryans chinese greeks romans and normans who lived in the distant north all understood bee raising and valued honey very highly the normans scarcely ate a meal without it others beside the normans understood making intoxicating drink from honey the wax was used for statues and other fine works of art bee raising did not reach its zenith until after moveable moveably move able frames were introduced by dierson Dier zon zou and the extrac extractor ter was invented by major by means of an extractor honey can be separated from the comb without damaging the latter another advantage c is that the honey does docs not loose its aroma in this way as it does when melted on the stove As an article of food honey is very good it contains much nutriment and is easily digested the ancient en egyptians ay used honey to embalm the bodies of their dead children by this means they could preserve them for many years now it is used in cases of sickness among children the value of bees to agriculture 0 is under estimated by most people millions upon millions of blossoms remain unfertilized if i it t were not for the bee carrying from t trees rees of one sex to those of the other the australian farms furnish the best evidence odthe necessity of the bee for their orchards produced nothing until after bees had been imported mr it S suter says that lie he has experimented for several years by covering with t gauze adze through which air ar lia light litan ami 1 I itt cla CAU readily rc pass branches of certain tress and shrubs and found that when other limbs of the same tree had much fruit on them the covered ones had bad none the perfect order there is in their government is enough to fill a person with wonder and amazement it has been demonstrated thattie that the brain braia of a bee weighs more than the brain of any other insect of equal size the important part they take in aiding nature shows the design of a wise creator cra ator |