Show BEES AND WILD HONEY HONEYBee I Bee Hunting for Profit Is a Thing aThing of the Past Owing f to the Passing of Great Forests I Br mOMAS M H It Is commonly thought that with the passing tway or of larger timber the 1111 bees becs would have to go but such Is not the case caso There arc more wild bees today than thoro were thirty ears ago ngo ngoAt At that time trees had but little i I alue and the 1 bo hunter found no 1 trouble In cutting a beo tree wherever It was found lound and many man men followed bee hunting for profit and pleasure and andos andOs os the be bees 8 were most o often len found Sn In largo large trees with decaying limbs or trunks the they became on fin easy mark for tho hunter huntor who their habits Now nil timberland Is under rence ence and tho cutting or of n a tree treo on another I mans land often ends In trouble Bee hunting Is a thing or of tho past but th the bees are aro hero here more plentiful I than ever evor The colony with 60 50 and pounds ot of hono Is not found They have havo been compelled to toI I use usa the smaller trees for Cor storehouses which soon become overstocked and a anew i new home must be found Thus the colonies are arc smaller and more numer numerous I ous In removing tho timber from three acres o oC land the owner round found nine tre trees 15 with bees and hone honey Of at these I nino roes the largest amount of oC stored was about ten pounds and on two or of the trees the tho bees wore storing honey b by building It fast to twigs outside the hollow In n a tree I The Tho largest colon colony of oC wild bees I 1 ever saw was In Pope Popo county count Illinois This colony colon was using a cavIty In a rock I blurt n as a hive and I s told It had been there for tor fifty years V lien looking bolting nt at the entrance the tho bees leaving and returning looked al ai I I most like brown smoke escaping from Crom the thc rock Th These o bees are aro out of oC or of maim mun and the amount or of honey they ther have stored within this rock ruck can only be guc at but It must ho he large The bee hunter his business veil and many wore were thu ways a s sho ho had of oC finding the thc stored Ono One of oC the tho most used waS the snow hunt In earl early r when hen tho first snow foil The hunter went Into the wood WOoI going from rom tree to treo bolting about the roots for dead bees upon the I Isnow snow as aN It was that all ull dead bees are aro removed from Crom the hive hivo and dropped b beneath Another method was tho placing of oC sweet or honey on a log near the wood and then following the bees when feeding flour WIlS dropped upon the bees making them m whito and more easy to follow Collow through the shade ot of the tho woods The flour would also be otT oc when entering the tree and this often oCten helped the tho hunter to locate the bees After Atter a 1 bce treo was found It was marked anti that mark was thought to protect the tree for the finder until the coming of oC cold weather when the tho honey could bo be removed Sometimes the fInder sot got all the hone honey but often oCten he to share with the owner of oC the land on which the ho hotree tree was found Cound The Tho cutting of oC a bee beo tree was no pleasant job as the day was never so cold that the tho bees would not try tn to de defend fend their home and often orten tW the hunter sot got more stings B than hone But it Ir tIme the tree was large and the tho cob col ony had been In It for several years the honey would pa pay well for the sath gath gathering ering |