Show bees and cucumbers A correspondent of one of the lead ing beo bee journals la Is authority for the statement that more than growers of hothouse cucumbers in massachusetts have found it mec necessary essary to keep bees in their buildings to set or fructify the cucumbers over 1000 col onles are now being used in this way and in most cases it has been found necessary to replace these colonies each year this has created a steady demand for bees and the benefits derived have been so apparent that this demand promises to grow at present however an earnest effort Is being made to determine if poR possible sible why col anlas thus kept in hothouses hot houses are short lived since the necessity of replacing them almost yearly Is IB not ant only y very but seems a great sir of the industrious little insects |