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BEES LIKE A MACHWE COMPETENT BEEKBEPER JS AL- MOST SURE OF SUCUHSS. Proper Hons Is Very Important-- Qreqtest Source of Loss Is Death and Weakness Caused by Severe Winters, and Disease of Insects Sometimes Discourages the Be- ginner, The productive colony of becs ls 2 good machine in the hands of 7004 i hanis. Ww energy is sumed sis to run the muchine, . id does the right work t time and obtains the 3 greatest possible reward in the chine's output. So the beekeeper has made a study of the business and knows how properly to direct the en- ergies of the bees is sure of winning the greatest success. Many good bee- keepers tn Canada receive a good liv- ing" from their.bees and have Intomes equal to that of a prosperous farmer in other lMnes of agriculture. Bees should be properly boused in good hives, Swarming should be con- trolled, surplus room should be pro- vided at the proper time, and in abundance, and adequate protection and care to prevent losses should be provided during the win of the major sources of loss of bees the test is the death znd 1 weakness of colonies in winter. 3y starvation and exhaustion of vitalit {the average winter los: most lo + not jey crap te pear foul d and 1 foulbrood, Withi Vv years many of the provi provided for apiary insp in all but a few provi eases are sufficiently permit commercial conduct their work full returns, In spite of such st the annual loss of colonies fr ease ig very. Sarge Ba a many discc with virtually ne When a colony becomes. populous during a good honey flow it normal fy makes preparation to swarm, th dividing itgelf into fw coloni While this instinct is advanlagepus 10 wild bees, it resulis In a reduc tion in the honey bi if the division as it usually does, just 3 or during the time whe nec especially abun t swarming be entire prevented, even with the best of he proper measure of a heckeeper kill is his success in reducing this activity A failure to attempt this causes untold loss in honey every y the methods of swarm preventio and control can be understood only by careful study and experience The proper giving of room for sur- plus honey is important in this con- nection. It is an unsually good local- ity in which nectar is abundant all summer and this room must be given at just the right time. 'Bhis wecessi tates wafchful study of the nectar producing flowers. It is guite 4 com-~ mon practice for begkecpers to put on one "super" for the storage of surplus honey and to wait until this {ir entirely filled before giving more a a 'honey from lack of storage often too much 18 stored Ts and Ly i e to provide this room on and in the proper way often may a the crop to one-third. Conserve All Grains. Ive stock men of this country are fronted with a situation unparal- history. The unprecedented for human eon- Takes it imperative that p 'ts bo conserved to the Bud She only those feeds be for 1 stock which are not ie js the duty of our stockmen to 'the provisioning of the great § engaged in saiviary ud indus- g both in this country 'They must also preserve their usefulness will be This results in the loss of | 4S) Ontario. Tue Opserven. ASR reading about the hung routo on Monday, May 7, SB bf PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to ace cept their food much the same as they breathe the air KJ ' . . . They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a § thing as this affecting their own dinner table never enters 2 their mind, and it is the responsibility of Tha Observer 52 to bring home to its readers a realization of the facts, as un- by legs' something is done, iu another year, they will not be in Belgium but the hunger in I'he following should be memorized by every reader of ence of all interested iu food production was held ju Tis. S NE NS i Under the Presidency of Mr. J. W. Woods, a Confer RS 4 £ ZR OE LON 0 vITY'S FIRST AND LAST FALL Jericho'd Siege and Capture One of the Spectacular Stories of the Old Testament. On the morning of Washington's birthday Gen. Sir B. H. Allegby's Aus- trallan troopers rode a8 conquerors into a little village of huts, noted geo graphically as being the city of low- est elevation on earth, and in Biblical history as being the scene of the Promised Land, observes the Minne apolis Journal. In the Canaanite days Jericho was a fortified city, commanding both the lower ford of the Jordan and the route leading up to the highlands of Judea. The story of its siege and capture and the destruction of its populattpn is one of the spectacular stories of the Old Testament, which contrasts strongly with its gentle seizure by a Christian army In a year of our Lord thirty-five centuries later. According to the Ofd Testament story, the city was left desolate with a curse from Joshua upon the man whe should attempt to rebuild it. And it is related that Hiel, the Bethelits, who did rebuild it, lost his two sons in the construction of the wall as punishment for his temerity. It was at Jericho that Joshua insti- tuted his campaign of frightfulness upon his enemies; and it was on the Jericho road leading up to the Judean highlands that Jesus laid the scene of the story of the Good Samaritan who gave first gid to a wounded enemy. The advance from Joshua 5 Jogud in the human tion. 33886 This war is fntarentatly a con- flict between the ideals of modern brotherhood and ancient overlordship ; and nowhere is the contrast more note- worthy than in this little village of Jericho, where the people today are safer in the hands of their enemies than they were under the rulz of thelr own people. The world, with the excep- tion of Germany and Turkey, has tray- eled a long way between the two 'falls of Jericho. y get. Permanent cuion hence t 074 Lbs