Show HELPING HONEY BEE IS ACT OF KINDNESS neglect to provide water Is as culpable as to cut off food supply other hints by IV H UNDERWOOD 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 bees may come as a new thought to many neglect to provide drink lb is as culpable as to cut oft off the food supply and yet the bees are in many instances wholly disregarded in this respect yet the insects pluckily pluck lly shift for themselves in such cases and they may be found congregated about the vilest places if they luippen to contain moisture not because they do not prefer pure water but because it Is not nob convenient to obtain you may have noticed how they invariably hock flock about the watering trough if it happens to stand in the neighborhood of the hives showing plainly that water is necessary and can you fall fail 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 really wicked as well as wasteful to neglect it cover it pan or other shallow dish with 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 our path wl I 1 en coming homo home tired and heavily laden |