Show FOR OR THE mm THE BLES AND THE FRUITS the honey hooker ilee dee not only vindicated but invited into the th fruit orchard fruit growers have relented mach much t toward 0 the bees since the results of experiments peri ments made under the direction ol 01 the united states entomologists have shown that wasps bit open tender fruits birds pecked them and they crack cracked under tinder the action of the bun sun and rain jain he the bees only coming in to utilize the ole juices of the injured fruit but now mr frank benton denton bays says in insect life that the bees have not only been vindicated but that in the future fruit growers are likely to be generally regarded as more indebted to the beo keepers than tho the latter are to the fruit growers for tho the amount of honey the bees secure from fruit blossoms cornea far short of equaling in value that part of the fruit crop which many accurate observations and experiments indicate is due to the complete cross fertilization of the blossoms by bees the observations and researches of II Il ildebrand muller delpino darwin and others as well as tho the excellent explanation of the subject by Clie cheshire shim have gone far to prove how greatly blos sonis depend upon the agency of bees for their fertilization and hence for the production of seeds and fruits the facts they have brought forward are gradually becoming more widely known among fruit growers and beckee per and additional evidence accumulates sir mr benton denton states that there has come to his notice a case very clearly illustrating the value of bees in an orchard and the authenticity of which iscon is confirmed by correspondence with the parties named gentlemen recognized in their locality aa as authorities in fruit culture particularly cherry growing the facts are these for several yeara years the cherry crop of vaca valley in solano county cal lias has not been good al though it was formerly quite sure the partial or complete failures have been attributed to north winds chilling rains rame and similar climatic conditions but in the minds of bassford of che cherry rry glen these causes canses did not sufficiently account for all the cases of failure these gentlemen recollected that formerly when the cherry crops were good wild bees were very plentiful in the valley and hence thought perhaps the lack of fruit since most of the bees had disappeared might be due to imperfect distribution of the pollen of the blossoms to test the matter they placed therefore several hives of bees in their orchard in 1890 the result was striking for the bassford orchard bore a g good crop of cherries while the other growers in the valley who had no bees found their crops entire or partial failures in 1891 1801 bassford had somo some sixty five hives of bees in their orchard and mr H A bassford brott to the entomologist our crop was wm good this se season ion andee and we attribute it to the bees and he adds further since we have been keeping bees our cherry crop lias has been much large than formerly while those orchards nearest us five miles from here where no bees are kept have produced but light crops chic chicken kezis hatched in lilay and ancl june the chickens of such breeds as games leghorns Leg Legli horns orns polish and hamburges Ham burgs are rapid growers and if anything will do better when batched hatched in may and june vegetable and animal food is then very plentiful and nothing is more indispensable in raising good stock of the above e breeds than this the tender grass and fat grubs bugs and insects rush the cuick epick feathering chicks through the dangerous rous early period of their existence in yeat gt cat shape unlimited range is what tj they want and this means limited grain food W we e must develop tho muscle and bone and not the fat and natures method ia is the correct one the failure to raise leghorn game and 11 hamburg amburg chickens successfully is due to close confinement and heavy grain feeding T this nall Is a leaf from the book of experience aw not a theory bays says the F fanciers an ciers journal which gives this advice when chickens have a free range the gra grain food is best given 1 in the n natural state stated i e dry either the whole grain or crushed according to the size of the chickens whole wheat is excellent and BO so is cracked corn A mixture of tho the two kept before the chickens at all timesia times is the simplest and best wast method of supplying food for very young chickens dry food answers equally well especially a mixture of bran cracked corn and rolled oata oats the assertion thai that dry bran causes bowel trouble is a mistake it ia is safer especially in hot weather er to feed it dry than scalded an excess of bran food however is apt to prove too la laxative lacative clover hay for sheep many sheep give their sheep clover hay and it is a good food for them thein but it ought to bo remembered it contains a large percentage bf of nitrogenous food matter we do not eay say this to prevent them using the clover hay but to remind them that when they increase crease e the quantity they increase the quantity of nitrogen supplied auppl led and ai a allowance allowa uco for this should be made when arranging the amount of corn M x cake except for this C clover lover hay bay is on one 0 of the best rectifiers as well as best foods that can be given to sheep As a means of lowering the quality of the blood epsom salts uro aro a mild agricultural A arl cultural new news and notes not unless you ba have ve commodious quarters bo content with raising one breed bre od of fowls the first shorn sheep to arrive in chicago this season were received from missouri sour the uso of english rape lias has it is said been tried with success for fattening heep sheep in wisconsin professor A J cook cool of the michigan agricultural college is hereafter reatter lie to be at the pomona college california the losses of sheep during the past year throughout the country generally were nye re lighter than during any recent season |