| Show A NOTE FOR BEE KEEPERS I 1 As the past winter has been hard upon ibs lbs pnAt inathe the he bee keepers of bf v e m met acwith with baft many bis dis dou cou i i a ag cr emente any suggestions of experienced ca eastorn eastern storn apa irist inist will no doubt bo be received within erest ferbet crest and if ir ap applicable r to utah be guay gla gia als ais adly adopted A correspondent of the 11 farmer h has as tb tho following to say in regard to a spring substitute for pollen pol poi lerf lerr which we think may blay leof be of use to our home bee farmers barcli is hero nero avith with 1 its tb windy dams days and its ltd hours of bright sting hinel hinol ald our little workers anvor ers are daily busy buoy about the pile trying top to pump I 1 lill iiii P sap out of lot the green wood or at work on oro the s sawdust chewing it with avith their mandibles and then packing it in m the shaped basked baskets of bf their hild lc legs s they rhey carry this sawdust to tb their hive and use it as they would the polled bf flowers to make the jelly with which they tiley feed teed the carvee laret dufin during this montaj it i is s our custom to give flour to our bees generally rye ryo flourn flour which is amil amii a much cli setter better te i substitute for ar pollen alf kw sa w dust if it is placed in shai shallow loff boxes in a sunny and sheltered spot there is no gish gisk of losing bees beba through thir their get getting fing c chilled billed or or of seeing sepi seel tho gaui floun all blo llo blown away a ily should sho naf d the flour be loosely 4 in ta the 11 box the tile bees are sure to drown in it if with bran bragg they cannot annot get all of it experience af lias ha taught ift that thab to ofner offer it to them it to 1 41 jew pew handfuls on tu the bottom C bax X and liris press s 51 himo hito a conical mass ais aa elg eig tightly lk as possible if many bees es h ave ve access accas to ahe flour aio nio it wll wil surer surprise ise the owner to ped sed bee see ho how IV fast I 1 it if dW disappears appears coming in not of fresh pour I 1 ert eri ernt erit tic ices es bees bees to raise brood blood and if honoris not mot scar sear scarce searce cc in th the hiVe ehle the colony soon hasa numerous s and vig vic jorona I 1 i orous drous population I 1 J I 1 |
