Show SOME GOOD BEE essentials neglect to provide honey with drinking water as culpable as neglecting food by BESSIE L PUTNAM we take pleasure in kindness in various ways to the higher domestic animals well knowing that there Is profit in this humane treatment but that it should extend to the bees may come as a new thought to many neglect to provide drink Is as culpable as to cut off the food supply and yet the bees are in many instances wholly disregarded in this respect yet the insects pluckily pluck lly shift tor themselves in such cases and they may be found congregated around the vilest spots it they happen to contain moisture not because they do not prefer pure water but because it Is not convenient to obtain you may notice how they invariably flock around the watering trough it it happens to stand in the neighborhood of the hives showing plainly that water Is necessary and can you tall to appreciate how many are drowned in this effort to get a drink A fountain for their special accommodation mo dation is so easily made that it is wasteful to neglect it cover a pan or other shallow dish v alth wire screen cloth and keep the dish filled with water placing it in a shady place where it will keep as cool as possible the bees can get the moisture through the screen and yet there is no possibility of their drowning another hardship through pure neglect and one which often results disastrously Is a failure to keep the grass mowed in front of the hives how would you like to have such an obstacle in your path when coming home tired and heavy laden ease and convenience applied to the work of every helper is not without its reward |