Show kenping KEEPING BEES it has been a matter of doubt with isome whether bees could be kept in this territory especially in the northern pi par rf of it while many questioned its paying even if they could be kept these doubts are practically set at rest by actual experiment three hives in pres pros youngs apiary have already thrown off three swarms this season and it is expected that two or three moie mode more mone will yet be obtained from them by comparing the weight of the hives now now with what it was when they were put in the apiary it is believed that there is an average of fifty pounds of honey to the hive already in them this will be positively tiMy known in a month ortho or two when the honey is taken out which will be largely increased in quantify by that time the hives are BO so constructed that the honey can be tk taken e n out when desired and of course the hives will not be entirely cleared of it if w s some will be allowed to remain for the bees we will take pleasure in noticing the extracting of the honey when itis it is done from time to time as the subject is one of interest this settles satisfactorily the questions about keeping bees proving that they will live breed and largely produce honey here the uses to which honey is applied are so bo well and widely known that it is needless to enumerate them thiem apart from its being D a luxury wenters largely into regular afon in many places and is an article hi highly I 1 9 aly estee esteemed fied pied and at times almost indispensable in the sick chamber its high price here places it beyond the reach bathe peaple generally and the only way by which they can obtain i fc is by keep ing the bees and thus having the article anthe independent principle but besides sides s this chis keeping bees wiit wilt wil wll be as profitable an investment of means as can weli well weil be be made honey is and will always continue tobe to be a marketable commodity the cost of kee keeping P ing them is comparatively trifling the wild flowers er around ahe the leaves of certain trees and plants and in addition a small patch P ch of white clover and a little buckwheat planted will amford afford them all that they lequire squire while some attention to the hives and swarms is nearly all that is needed on the part of those who keep them this short article is not written with a view to give information concerning the treatment of bees but hift simply to advocate voca teth the wisdom and rind benefit of procuring curing abd and keeping them As they have for the present to be imported here the formation of clubs of those who IV wish ish to keep them would be the ancans means of getting and having them brought here on more economical terms han than if they were sent for in single hives any information concerning pres res B youngs bereswill bees bee swill wili will be courteously furnished by br IV C staines who anay 4 be beable heable able oble also to give valuable suggestions gest ions to parties wishing to obtain hives for themselves |