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Show :5,.r.1 THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH mSEECFUJU IB IE EES Swagger Knitted Coat for Spring or Summer That Is Done in Simple Stitch Clock in Sons House Stops as His Father Passes Away ' At Ancaster, Ont., Thomas Barnes, died on a recent Sunof all the stitches needed; material at 3:10 oclock. His day morning requirements. son, Barnes, living at WinStanley Send 15 cents In coins or stamps hundred miles several Mass., (coins preferred) to The Sewing Cir- chester, In his possession an old had away, cle, Household Arts Dept., 259 West clock known to be at Fourteenth Street, New York, N. Y. grandfather least two hundred years old which formerly belonged to his father The clock had stopped at exactly the same time, to the fraction of a minute, that his father died. seventy-thre- O e, eS TIMES DO CHANGE True, But Trainer (encouraging his man) What youve got to do is to stick to It and go for em, and youll come through with flying colors. Yes! But Boxer (doubtfully) at be Royal Artheyll canum Bulletin. half-mas- t. How an Expert Prepared by the National Geographic Society. D. Washington, kHERE C. WNU Service. are some 800,000 bees In the United States, producing about 100,000 tons of marketable And yet the honey annually. bee is not a native. There were no bees in North America when the Spanish explorers arrived. Settlers coming in later expedi-:t- ! is brought them, and at first the Indians called them the "white mans Since then they have followed fly. man in his migration and settlement of every part of the United States and Canada. Until recently these insects chief usefulness to ..ian was their production of honey and beeswax no mean serv-- : Ice, since for centuries honey was virtually the only available sweet But now, as pollinating agents, they perform a far more important duty. In the' pioneer stages of American agriculture, bumblebees and other native pollinating insects that fed upon nectar and pollen were plentiful everywhere. But the planting of vast areas Which once were forests, prairies, and swamps with fields of grain, orchards, and gardens upset the delicate balance of nature. Widespread cultivation of single plants in huge acreages brought about an abnormal condition of insect popu- latlon. .Injurious species, afforded an enormous food supply, prospered and multiplied until now serious insect pests menace almost every important - , . O crop. , Insecticides must be use to protect , farm crops, particularly fruits. Unfortunately, these materials kill not only harmful but beneficial insects. The toll Includes honeybees and other wild bees, as well as the efficient bumblebees all the insects that carry pollen from one blossom to another. Plants Need Pollination. Even yet we scarcely realize the dependence of many plants upon insects to effect pollination. The cutting of wood lots and the clean cultivation of our fields have added to the difficulty of survival of our useful insects, with the result that more and more dependence has to be placed upon the honeybee, the only pollinating insect that can be propagated and controlled. Some plants bear only male flowers, which produce pollen but no fruit, and female flowers In the same species occur on a separate plant. To set fruit, pollen from the male plant must be carried to the female flower. Some plants simultaneously bear both male and female flowers, but still ' require to set fruit. Then there Is a third class in which - both sexes occur in the same blossom. Some of these plants can set fruit with their own pollen. But in many plants pollen from another is necessary to set a full crop o fruit or seed. . Although the honeybep Is by no means domesticated, it is easily controlled. Consequently, millions already are being moved from one section of the country to another and placed In orchards and on farms. Bee men in the South even offer for sale a pollination package, a wire cage filled with bees. The grower distributes the requsite number throughout his orchards, opens the cages, and leaves the rest to the bees. Hundreds of full colonies are rented to orchardlsts during the peak of the blooming period. The bee has f also largely replaced the camels hair brush in pollinating cucumbers under . , cross-pollinati- Q Were it not for the work of the honeybee, most of our apple, peat, plum, and cherry orchards would bear poor crops, the growing of certain forage crops would be unprofitable, and the variety and quantity of our vegetables would be materially reduced. Found In Nearly All Countries. Honey and beeswax are produced over a wider geographical range than any other agricultural crop. There is scarcely a country In which honeybees are not kept. They Inhabit the Tropic and Temperate zones, they are found In the deserts, on the mountains, in the plains, and In swamps, and as far north as Alaska. Shes mistress of all she surveys and youre certain to be, too, if you elect this swagger knitted coat for wear this Handles Bees. easy making and spring and summer. So easy to knit Scattered over the world are several In a simple loose stitch, with stockdistinct races, such as the Italian, inette stitch for the contrasting borCaucasian,' and Cyprian. All der, youll find Germantown wool races, everywhere, react in almost the knits up very fast. same manner. In pattern 5534 you will find comIf honeybees are properly handled, plete instructions for making the there is no more danger in caring for swagger coat shown in sizes them than in raising chickens. How- and an Illustration of it and ever, the belief that bees learn to know their master and will not sting him is without foundation. Car That Launches Airplane During the active season the averEmployed by Oregon Police age life of a bee is six weeks. The first two weeks are lived almost exclusively within the hive, but thereafter the bees Oregon state police have purpass most of the daylight hours In the chased a surprising weapon. It is fields when the weather is good, in a motor car equipped to launch an search of pollen and nectar. Since the airplane, and the small plane so to beekeeper rarely opens the hive more be used. When the car attains than once a week, there is little opporspeeds in excess of 25 miles an hour, it is said, the pilot of the plane actunity for the bees to become acquainted with their owner. celerates his motor and takes off Some persons are so constituted that from the platform above the cars one sting may prove highly dangerous top on which the plane is carried. to them and require Immediate medical attention, but these cases are rare. During the active season, a normal colony contains one queen, a fully developed female; thousands of unrepro-ductiv- e worker bees, which are females only partly developed ; and several hundred drones, or male bees. The queen is endowed with great powers of reDON'T OFFEND THE NEW NEIGHBOR production, since she can even produce JACKSONS-HE- 'S male progeny without mating, but she ON TO KEEP HIS cannot produce female bees, workers CHICKENS OUT, THE MEMBERSHIP or queens, without going through the COMMITTEE FOR OF OUR YARD, marriage ceremony. Thus, the maligned THE LODGE OR Kill drone is indispensable to the compleand you're up tion of the immortal cycle of the hon For membership all-roun- d Car-niola- "Hiram writes from school that they are putting in an electric switch. Theres no end o them ideas. The birch rod was good enough in my day. n, new-fangle- 16-1- 8 38-4- 0; An Old Deck ion dont you show your wife whos master of the house? Why She knows. a i'll eybee. WRIG LEY'S Trf6 PERFECT GUM sm frrtnrM mg eras vnn HIM uissaMYiimisiwwn'wMMWMw'' -- bet he keep s HIS LITTLE FEATHERED FRIENDS HOME! AFTER ! muh SHOULDN'T JACKSON A THING OR TWO HAVE DONE THAT NOW YOU'LL NEVER GET INTO THE J , THIS j Queens Wedding Flight. Upon the wedding flight of the queen depends the subsequent development of the colony. On a bright spring day the virgin queen emerges from the hive and soars away to seek a mate from among the hundreds of drones cruising about in the warm sunshine. Blissfully, perhaps, the drone is seeking an encounter that will cost him his life, but insure the perpetuation of his race. A moment after mating the drone dies and the newly mated queen at once becomes a widow. But this one mating enables the queen for the rest of her life, three or four years, to perform her maternal duties. A few days after returning to the hive, she begins egg laying, slowly, at first; but at the height of her career she may lay as many as 1,500 eggs a day and maintain this rate for days at a time. She lays two kinds of eggs. One kind is unfertilized and hatches Into a drone, or male bee. Mating has no Influence upon this part of her family. Her sons are not the sons of her mate or husband, and are consequently fatherless, but they can claim a grandfather. The other type of egg is fertilized by the queen with a male cell, of which she retains an almost unlimited number in a special organ of her body. The fertilized egg hatches into a female bee, usually a worker. . Thus both workers, or neuter bees, and queens come from the same kind of egg. Yet the two show marked differences. The queen has the function of reproduction; the worker bee has not The queen bee possesses teeth on her mandibles, or jaws; the worker bee has smooth jaws. The worker bee has pollen baskets; the queen lacks them. The worker bee has a straight, barbed, unretracmble sting; the queen has a curved, smooth sting. The worker bee loses its life after stinging, but the queen does not A worker bee takes 21 days to develop from the egg to the adult while a queen, who is much larger, requires only 15 or 16 days. The colony Itself has the power of determining whether a fertilized egg shall develop into a queen or a worker bee. During its normal existence, only one queen is necessary to maintain the population of a colony. Unlike the worker bee, who lives but six weeks, the queen may live two, three, or more years, but eventually she also becomes old land decrepit Then a new queen must be raised to carry on the life of the colony. . iMMiiiyi' Hi MR. I UNDERSTAND JACKSON HAD THAT PLEASE OVERLOOK PETER'S TROUBLE ONCE -- OUR DOCTOR SO IRRITABLE HEAD IT CALLED COFFEE-NERV- ES -- BUT SWITCHING TO POSTUAA WORKED WONDERS ACHES, AND HE CANT LISTEN TO SLEEP HER-EPT- ING RIGHT, OUT OF THAT, WOMAN'S HAND W Xfi DAYS UTER WELL, PETER, HOW DOYOU LIKE THE LODGE, NOW THAT YOU'RE A MEMBER ? HE'S HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE, MR. JACKSON PETER GETS A THRILL OUT OF EVERYTHING SINCE HE SWITCHED TO POSTU M 5V! Children should never drink coffee . . . and the caffein in coffee too. If you are disagrees with many grown-up- s, bothered by headaches or indigestion, or cant sleep soundly try Postum for 30 days! It contains no' caffein. It is simply whole wheat and bran, roasted and slightly sweetened. Easy to make, costs less cent a cup. Its delicious, too . . . and than one-ha- lf may prove a real help. A product of General Foods. FREE Let .us send you your first weeks supply of Postum freel Simply mall the coupon. ( WNU General Foods, Battle Creek, Mich. ... ' i.'V, 1 r v d Send me, without obligation, Name. .R Mi & a wrecks supply of Postum. State Fill in completely, print name and address . General Foods, Ltd., If you live in Canada, address: Cobourg, Ont. (Offer expires Dec. 31, 1936.) |