Show the busy bee there Is no domestic animal or fowl that pays us as big dividends as the honey bee she works for or nothing boards herself supports Bup ports tier her queen ideen and the tha royal mile malo harem fertilizes the blossoms blosi iome for miles around and frequently furnishes us with bough nough honey in one year to buy bu y the nelre entire hive bees and all twice over hives of bees are frequently kept in large cities as well as in the country we have harp seen been a number of hives ott on roofs of buildings etc where the own era had no other space available and the bees will do just jual as well wall there na As on tho the ground provided the hives are shaded from the hot sun your success in keeping bees been depends upon one main factor and that Is in the food supply they gather their food la in the form of nectar and pollen from all sorts of blossoms the nectar is eaten by the bee undergoes car tala tain changes and ts to stored in tho the corob comb an finished honey the pollen Is treated in a somewhat similar man nor ner and Is worked over into boo bee broad with which tho the young arsted are fed A fairly constant of flowering plants must be available for your bees and there must bo be enough of these flowers so that the bees can gather moro more honey than they need remember that you dont get any honey until the been beels have hare all they need you got get the surplus only before you buy a hive of at been look over the territory within a radius ot at a mite mile and size up bie lahe feeding dosal willies it if there are consid emble amounts of clover you are safe eafe sweet cloter cloer fruit trees and bushes baw wood and mustard buckwheat and flax are hewy heavy honey bearers bear ere of course ornamental flowers do their share but they are of at much less importance it you find and plenty of teed feed without too much competition train from other bee keepers your next step is to secure a jandard ian dard beehive bachl ve with a strong colony colan of italian bees arid and a tested ital tan ian queen the eight frame Langst langstroth rith hire is an excellent one for the begin ner while your b bev ev might be bb secured cheaper from some farmer it elister castor to haie them corae cone right la in hive hire at tho the start the complete outfit will cost coat about 15 most people poop teran can handle italian without the tightest slightest danger of tung after A hula hen ben it la it wen well to use UM a bee veil tie yourI eeves tigh tightly yr yr colony m I 1 rota aio per capt aach and pace colony will produce from fifteen to a hundred pounds of honey depending upon the season it will not take ton ten minutes a week to care for them but you must spend a 06 lot more time than that watching them no aa they aro are most interesting in their habits habata |