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BEEKEEPING iMENTS
MANY GREAT BENEFITS HAVE
BEEN DERIVED.
The Year 1914 Was One of the Poor
est for Homey Production
Ever Known.
During the season of 1914 instruc
tions and material for conducting
co-operative experiments in bee
keeping were sent to 541 beekeeper
. by the Provincial Apiarist,' Mr
Morley Pettit of the Ontario Agri-
cultural"College, Guelph; Ont., and
while many failed to send formal re-
ports it is quite evident from cor-
respondence that great benefits
• have been derived which • cannot
well be tabulated.
The season of 1914 will go down
in the history of Ontario beekeep-
ing as one of the poorest for honey
production ever known. Bees win-
tered better than usual and a bet-
ter spring for building up could not
be dewed. In some sections clover
bloomed profusely but there was
very little honey ,anywhere. The av-
erage crop reported for the Pro-
vince was about 16 lbe. per colony
as opposed to an average of over
100 lbs. per colony in 1913. As usual
the average crop reported by ex-
perimentere is much better than the
general average, the experimenters
reporting on their crops having a 35
Ib, average. This will of course, be
modified by the fact that many ex-
perimenters became .discouraged
and sent no report, but the fact re-
mains that the careful beekeepers
always secures better returns than
his indifferent neighbor.
The effect of the: 'general failure
upon results from co-operative ex-
periments is very marked as the
honey flow is one o.f the greatest
factors controlling the behaviour of
bee.s.
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The Rost Popular Experiment.
pf the season was a, new method of
kntiroducing laying queens to queen -
less coloniee. It was quite natural
thad. this experiment should attract
*Ade, attention because the spread
of European :Foul Brood requires
wholesale requeeniug and gives in-
•pi:et:Med prominence to the prob-
lem of queen introduction. The
method tested, while not always
•iuceessful, has proven its worth to
•tstartel in the front rank of known
methods for performing this oper-
ation,
. The results obtained from Experi-
ment No, 1, a method for the pre-
vention of nat,ural iSIVaMillig in ex-
tracted honey produotien by hold -
g the colony :together, indicate
:that by this method swarming waa
sadueed from 35 per oent. to 5 per
dent; the average honey crop per
colony being increased.
• Results from Experiment No, -2,
the prevention of natural swarming
so comb honey production, were
incemplete because the prochtc-
49n af comb honey in always affect-
tholq by a poor season than that
extracted hooey, It was demon•.
stiated, however, that comb hone
jaen
b4 preeldeed without natural.
•'Mite results from •Experiment No.
3, the prevention of natural swarm-
ing by manipulation of hives instead
of combs, indicate that it is a great
advantage to give the queen an ex-
tra brood chamber of empty combs
for a week or two before the opening
of clover flow, provided the colony
is strong enough to need the extra
space.
Those who tried Experiment No.
4, which is a method of spring man-_
agement of bees, proved beyond
question that is pays to give hives
extra protection when they are tak-
en out of the cellar, early in the
spring. The extra warmth so ob-
tained is of great -value to them in
early brood rearing.
Experiment No. 7, which is the
•' .."Smoke Method"
,of introducing a queen to a full col-
ony, • proved entirely satisfactory
with two -third of the experiment-
ers. The system is as follows :—A
colony to receive -a, queen has the
entrance reduced to about a square
inch, and then about three puffs of
thiek white smoke is blown in and
the entranceclosed. In from fifteen
to twenty seconds the, colony will be
roaring. The email epaoe at the en-
trance is no* opened; the queen is
run in, followed by a gentle puff of
smoke and the space again closed
and left closed for about ten min-
utes, when at is re -opened and the
been are allowed to ventilate and
quiet down. The full entrance is
not given for an hour or more, or
even until the next day. The theory
of the cause of the success of this
method is this :—Bees in distress,
know no enemy or alien, and every
one is turning to some other for
help or food, and every bee which
comes within the influence of the
uproar of a distressed colony seems
to be seized with the same emotion.
In other words, when a queen is in-
troduced to a hive under these oon-
ditihns the bees do not know her
from their own queen and she is ac-
cepted without question,
Races of Bees.
The Special Experiment on Rases
of Bees. Applications for this ex-
periment were sent to beekeepers
in counties where European Foul
Brood, this much dreaded disease of
bees is known to exist, also to mem-
bers of the Experimental Union,
The material sent is an untested
queen of the Italian race purchased
from some reliable queen breeder,
The experimenter is asked to intro-
duoee this queen to .some colony or
nucleus and give her the best of care
and report later on her value as a
breeder and the value of her bees as
esisters of European i'oul Brood.
chle hundred and six beekeepers ap-
lied for this experiment and re-
eived one queen each. Later thirty
f these reported that the queen had
eels successfully introduced :and
he 'oolonies were going into winter
uarters ie good condition. The
ollowing is a sample of reports re-
eived these queene. "The
ween you sent me was introduced
nto my worst ease of European
out Brood and ,it noW one of any
trongest .colonies and free from di"s-
ase. She certainly a good. queen
s the colony was so weak. that they.
id not, gather over 10 lbs. of white
env.' It is proven beyond a
onht :that the best remedy for this
isease -0,e use a vigiorotia 1We-
an queens,.
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SI LE Of BRITAIN'S NEW ARMY onfieneutimnbgertatantoonnse iswoienh-
thought there were a lot more kilt-
ed men ooming, dropp.ed their rifles
even the most up-to-date Army List
never knew. and put up their handle. Some
HOW MANY MEN KITCHENER I will not give any figures from handed thena over the souvenir
.1.11,701 MumjeoterVeRy, MARITIME PROVINCES.
(inth to fittie hilted 300" Ger- ft ns " Inierest Fr°111 Pa
Lapped by Waves of the
mans 'With Enetta'ts Own
How Pte. tleoree Wileen, of the
2nel Highland I.ight lmfan16. a111.1 it
iinu. a oopelar iiews vendor •oi
the etre ef the Seettisn eaatrat.
,won his Viets»in cl,,se makes up tole
S of the near ..eJoetional -Aeries 411. in
div idui1 Bravest 1410 \Sur. There.
is 31 Munohauspe flavor alemtthe
series of epieerde,4hi kehiell the
soldier figured, but Wileon has hie
Vs. , preeented by Rho!, George to
back up his story, lie now in
Glasgow hoepleal recuperating freen
the elfgeta of nem roue 'W.Ourals.
happened like this," Pte. Wilseei
said to an interviewer. "We had
reaehed Verneule where we made
• our first stand niter the retirement
from Mcnis, Getting well forward,
for I wanted to see all that was do-
ing, I saw two Germans in front ef
us. I pointed them out to my of-
ficer, and he was looking through
his eases to see them when he drop-
ped. Making .good
I Picked Off Both the Teutons.
"Going . bill farther forward,
though my Pals 'shitted that T would
get potted, I suddenly came on
eight Germans in a hollow. They
had oaptured, two of the Middlesex
men. Well, I saw I 'could not
turn back, so I. made a rush
them, shouting, 'Come, on, men
Charge 1' though there was devil a
soul near me ! The Germans
of our lade did come up, and
HAS READY the Army List of January, but from (the Germans)
the A.rmy List of December, which «Being still inquisitive I wen
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ie in the German's possession, since still farther forward, when I hear
• he has quoted from it, it is suf- someone Shouting 'Jock! Jook V
German. Spies Have No Inform- ficient to say that we have records was some of •our boys, and they tol
tion That is of Any there of about 396 laattalions
t
g
me not to go any farther or 1 w It
Kitchener's Anny. We have re- get shot. 'Why l' I asked. '19..4o1,
Value. cords, too, of :some 160 new batter- at this,' they said. What a sight
The new British Army List i.s les of ,artillery, and 27 divisions of Our men lying dead and wounded
engineers. Provisions have been in, scores'. A German Maxim was
very informative, and., ,at a moment
made, so far as the higher leading doing it "
when some of our journals are de-
manding further informa,tion con- i's eenee'rned, . _
cerning the, oompoeition of Kitche ,ed which are corop,osed of the men
Lor :six armies, two
Turned Maxim on Germans.
• ener's* Army, not for themelves, of Kitchener's troops,. There is no " 'Clan't You get hold of it?"
but .with a finelack (4 self-interest, apecial rule as to , how many army said, 'Wish to God we could,',they
on behalf of the Frenoh, one won- corps there are to an arniy, any replied, 'Well. here'n Jock pin
dens why the Arnik List in not in- more than one oan lay down the to get it,' said, I, and one of the
writes a London correspondent. brigade. The Army List,
number of regiments there are to. a King's Royal Rifles volunteered to
Ai& leas go with me. We hadn't gone far
yoked to supply the details desired,
Since there is some idea, that se- passed the censor, and is, there- Oben he droPPed, for the Germans
crecy is the order of the day at the. fore; quotable, gives us 36 divisions had spotted him, and riddled him
with bullets from the Maxihn. I got
War Office, it may be pointed out, in the new six armies, that is to.
that Lord Kitchener has already
abont
say, eighteen new army corps, or vome kind of cover behind a little
720,000 men ,of .aii arms. stack of hay, and from there I snip -
given us particulars of some num-
each of the seven Germans at the
bers, and that the members of the Where Calculations Go Wrong. gun. I then ran forward, bayonet -
Cabinet , responsible were very ed an officee, who rose up and fired
frank in the first anonths of the But though the list oan give us his revolver at ane, and turned the
war as to the quantity of e.oldiers the oomposition of the armies, their
commanders, and divisional Com- gun on the Germans behind. I fired
available for service in the new fully 750 roundis, and I should say
menders, it does nob tell us the
army. put at least 300 of the eneany out of
t number of men in the regiments, the fight. They were in massed for-
e and that is where all calculations mation, and I oouldn't miss them.
,t go wrong, and that is where even
- with the information at his dispos- By this time their ,shells were land -
1 al, the German may ing round me, and I had to go back
sorts of ghastly 'blunders when he
commit an to our lines,, where I fainted.
f comes to sum up the forces opposed tea"gWethstnhe mr'ewaximve,readndI dwettntholeucit
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8 to him. The number which I have ag.ain, got hold of it, and brought
✓ given of 720,000 men is purely con- it back. To finish the job I went off
jectural, and probably wide of the again to
mark. We teem to have readjusted
our arrangements also in respect Get the Ammunition.
to eommands. . which I brought in, Then I found
This frankness,. admirable as i
was from the point of view of th
curious people who want to be kep
right up to date with all the Im
perial gossip going did not fin
great favor in the eyes 'eitherth
French 'or the Russian's, neither
whom have published any figure
concerning the strength of thei
armies or reserves.
Can't Get the Exaet Strength.
There is a, limit to the e,spionag
system, and whilst it is"possiblefo,
the spies who in England are boun
to communicate to their Govern
went the movements of ships, an
so on, it is a very much more dif
ficult matter to get at the aocurat
numbers of Kitehener's Army i
training. Although I have written
a, great numlber of novels, I invari
Air, describe myself as a "report
er, and I suppose, I know as much
aboirt" the game of collecting news
as any man in England. I have
many friends in the army, and it
may ,seem quite a, 'simple matter
with all the resources at my dispos-
al, and with 'the facilities which my
many friends would he prepared to
grant ane, to get a very definite iclea
as to. numbers. • Yet, I can assure
the reader that though I travel
from .cantp to oatnp, thougth I snake
judicious inquiry in likely quar-
ters, I have, to-elay, only the hazi-
est notion as to the exact atrength"
of our new army. The German spy
would find .greater diffioulty. and,
for this reason, official frankness
is undesirable..
Can Only Guess.
that my comrade was still !wing
e The army corps does not seem to
✓ be recognized as a military entity,
d and we now count our foree,s by
- "armies," which are divided into
d so many division's, under divisional
- generals. There is no arbitrary
e rule as to the number of men which
n compose an army corps, and in
Englancl they vary between 30,000
- and 50,000, and there is no reason
alba revolver range.
St. John, N.B., hae civie til.
..(kad 1•"rederiet(ln, N.B.
James Fen, 91 ever- eadoehroiesee.
• hurried owing to a eat upaetina
lamp.
At St. Jehn, a.. 1,tase wa'
eleeelon, N.B.. an araireg eon
'ing drunlo
stalde wro arrested. ellarged wit'
in a tire at Ferryland, Nfld.. Mae
lotreed to death.
thew Slaney's two' eltildren wer
Fire thief E. H. Culton luta re-
aigned at Stella i•ton, N.S. nher
years, aetive
k lour is now :45h.50 a barrel ir
Newfoundland, ha‘ ing gone up $1
barrel in the last month.
It is stated that the .E,astern
Co., of New Glasguw, receiver.
Russian Government.
an order kr 15,000 ears "inorn tin
At Sydney, C.B., a woman war
sentenced to two months in jail. be
oause she begged without perm'
skin of a magistrate or clerge
At St. John's, Nfld., the
found four large boxes full .
ferent kinds of goods in the
of a girl arrested, charged wit ,
bery.
Pine Hill, N.S., Presbyteree,
College believes that more of it)
students have enlisted than all of
the other theological colleges in the
Dominion.
The Russian Government has
bought the steel steamer Lintroee
from the Reid Newfoundland Co.,
to use a.s i� -breaker in the
White Sea.
Benjamin Tucker, who retired
from the servioe of the I.C.R. after
43 years' service, did not have a
written complaint against him in
all that, time.
At a party in honor of has 92nel
birthday, John Lockhart, of Monc-
ton, N.B., danced a two-step with
one of his granddaughters. His eye-
sight is as good as it ever was.
Magistrate Ritchie, of St. John,
N.B., has .given warning that he
will send any man to the Pen. for
two 3%am,, who is found guilty. ot
giving li:lanOr'to. .'soldiers' on duty. •
Operations in the Newfoundlae
mines, Which were suspended wh
the war broke out, have. been
sumed, and 500 men, about o:
fourth of the usual number, are
work.
W. Duff Reid, of the Reid New-
foundland Co., of St. Yohes,
presented the Newfoundland
regi-
ment with two machine guns. His
son is serving as a privatwith the
regiment at Fort George, Scotland,
Two men at Lewisporte, Nfld.,
obtained free passes to St. John's
on the pretext that they were going
to enlist in the second contingent.
They failed to enlist; were arrested,
confessed and eaoh lined $2o co. 30
days.
Two years ago, Scott Moffat, of
Oampbellton, N.B., was operat
on in a Montreal hospital. He did
not make as complete a. recovery as
was expected, and developed a •
lump, in his side. Later, two sur-
geon s forceps were found in tbe
wound, and an operation will lie
necessary to remove them.
The Sydney, C.B., Chemical Co -
pany is producing a beerprottluot of
coke, known as benzol, which is
where he had fallen, so the captain , highly inflammable and ezplos
and I went out ,and carried him in. A plant for the manufacture •
His last words were : Thank'60-1
Poor fellow, he 'died next morning.
' mond for war purposes,mait
substance, 'wallah is largely in
Jock kept his word and got the 'erected if the War Departieiitgun;,
' " guarantee to take delivery shot,–
the war mine to an end 'within, a
limited period.
Wilson's remark when he brought
the captured Maxim back WaS char-
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the world Why a. British division acteristic of the Mau, Throwing it
isheuld consist o.f 20,000 troops of 1 cd:a:ai'lla ag.1'.a;Illisen:111:8;e:.a'sg. ele.7't he said,
all arms, The German General ' "Here's the thing that has been.,
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,
, g e sleet y it 'starts to reckon Edinburgh, and was .a reservist,
Private Wilson ie a native of!
'Staff will get 'itself into a terrible
up the Kitchener iforoes by military 11117"al-elagres,ollfsbeedge7.11e,likfhteerwstsrvbi4e.!ttY
rule of three. .Nev•ertheiens,
little cause there is :for ,pessitnism. ous kinds of employment, He be
the .figures available, we know Nhviotthv tneviollasnr Ibilflee,eanYde:aeaTigha7ree.cd'elliirti eb,:icike-
and • we really.° how- exaellently I came well known in the, elapse:it- of
Lord Kjtchener has served us dur- news vendor in the icitT, and was a
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general favorite on, account of his
.generous, care -free nature.p0bq
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The difficulty !lab one strikes is
hat there is 00 uniformity in the
trength of battalions, ,ancl that., if
ne goes on +the old alma that a bat-
alio» consists of 1,050 men, and
aises calculations upon that num-
er, one very soon copies up against
npleasant irregularities an the
ing the pant five month.s.
A neutral who has just returned
from Germany, and who is a friend
of a number of junior officers of the
General Staffs, tells me that those
enterprising gentlemen are pretty
sick about their one great misealou-
lation in this war, and you might
make fifty guesses without striking
the 'muse of the 'German perturiba- I
'Oen. Tbe hig aniseed:cella ion which I
Germany made ie ,Toffre.
A anon may be lonesome becalr..
other men are particular abiai
their assoeitates,
But the young fool is not exonsee
We on the ground that there is no
fool like an old one.
Many a tolan's sneeese, 'like that
of an actot, is due to a good $nates
ger.
A double RP941.4thrift is one eiso
I wastes biettIll his time and WA:1/st
yoaillto a
The college prolesaor, greatly be- Any ung:Man ettO erdm
3,3,__if tale girl hot oney tinliugti.
' loved because of his kind heAr,
1 but very abseut,ntindecl, visited lug for two. c..0,111A peciAs are ag (mac* ap,.
married niece and listened te her '"
der and °there are ea 46:wit aw
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s ceR
ivingt'•pt() 111(4 M al to,
" 'Give and take' is my motto,"
said the footpad, giving his vietim
a• rap on the irets,'d and taking his
watch and diairtionol pitt.
raise of her first-born. When she
mole/maim.
paused for breath, the •professor I Aly san, there are OW
fait that ho most say Homething, shau1d never boa -w.- dtd:r
iou espeoially kito.
tb
Ana 00'4.14441004.1 the giylwho mwtr,11
ries boa ±1iOJtI eta divoret, Aroti
lives hiolo4 1VO1 OW,
Being kind to A riehitillOttlier'4":-11140,
natty be a good itrafitcyont.
old ho,,catkApr foiVit a, boo
tilde then a wow= ears
asked, with every appearance of in-
tereet. 1" ("toed the mother
indignantly.•' Why, he'a been
walking now for five,
"Dear me exclaimed the profs -
'What 25 long way he must
have (exko!)•
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