Newspapers / The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, … / Oct. 31, 1935, edition 1 / Page 19
Part of The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
-H JOURNAL^EATKIOT. NORTH AVILKESBOiRO, K. PAGE' F ^• Cc _ L'iTOry Farm Can Ik Source Delicacy ForTaU ^ Bee Keeper Tdb of Soceessfid Praetkee With Bees ^ B. 'll. JOHNSON f^rtnnatelj Wilkes County is )oo«teO riKht in the very heart of the aourwood honey belt where ;the world’s famous honey Is pro- 4aoed in large quantities. Enough Iraney is washed away by rains ^each season to pay every farmer’s faxes in our county, then some, on account of not enough bees to , Sather it. We plant cane and toll to produce molasses and let hon- er. the health food and nature’s own sweet, go to waste. There Is not a farm in our county where tikes can not be kept profitably. Many of our bee-keepers report cash sales of thirty to fifty-eight dollars from a single colony of flees. Bees pollenize our orchards and crops and without them our crops would be greatly reduced. Bees when properly kept are a source of pleasure and profit, and will put honey on our table each day in the year. The following are a few help suggestions for the bee-keeper: Keep your bees in a standard ten frame hive of the following dimensions: 16 1-4 x 20 x 9 9-16 inches deep, outside measure ment. using 13-16 inch lumber tlon means future. It takes one cell of honey to rear, a drone bee or a worker bee. A standard brood frame will hold eight pounds of honey. When you have reared a frame of bees or drones It has cost the bee-keep er eight pounds of honey. If these are half drones it has cost you four pounds of honey to rear them, and after being reared they are a privilege character and will go from hive to hive consum ing great quantities of honey and never producing a single drop. Should disease appear in your bees you are helpless unless you have used comb foundation as you can not take the frames out to examine the brood. In the spring of the year you will find some of your colonies came through the winter strong and others weak. Equalize your* bees by taking honey and brood from the strong and give to the weak, then if they do not build up you may know it is the fault of the queen. The honey crop depends on the queen. Our best bee-Keepers use a young queen every year, as an did queen will not keep the population up. A colony of bees to produce a surplus honey crop should con tain one hundred and twenty-five to thirty-five thousand bees. A teen days after the e«-l» a worker a drone or inkle bee In *iul a» ilay da By all means use the standard | young queen will lay from twenty to thirty-five hundred eggs in day and night. The life of a work er bee during the working season is forty days. We must have a good queen to keep the popula tion up. One of -he bee-keepers’ great est problems is swarm control. You certainly can not expect to have swarms and make increase cannot draw drone cells. The use ^ and produce a crop of honey, of full sheets of comb founds- There are not enough bees left to tion means success. No founds- carry on house work and produce frame with full sheets of comb foundation and see that it is wired securely by hand. Bees when left to themselves will draw one half worker cells and one half drone cells. Drones are a consumer and not a produc er. Where full sheets of comb foundation is used the work is laid out for the bees and they eight ciaye. . It is thlrty-ttve tore from the time the worker bee egg is laid until the bee goes into the field. The young bee stays in the col ony and cleans house, draws combe, feeds young larva, stores and refines _ nectar, etfc., until she Is old enough to go into the field- There are only one queen tol erated in a hive. When five to seven days old she takes to the al;' for her honey-moon, when mated, which is only one time in life, she returns to her hive and never leaves it only in case she decides to swarm. The old queen and worker bees leave home aft er making provisions for a new queen. One of the best swarm control methods is room and ven tilation. Keep plenty of supers on your bees during the honey flow, add another super before the bees fill the one they have. One of our greatest mistakes is not to put on supers in time, and cause the bees to spread honey in brood nest and block the queen so she will have no room to lay. The hive body or lower portion of the hive is for brood rearing and a good queen will cover the entire ten frames. When frost comes see that your bees have forty pounds of honey to carry them through the wint er: If stores are short make a syrup of granulated sugar, one part water two parts sugar. One of the best means is to save the red honey and leave a full super of it on the bees for winter use. Honey when first gathered is seventy per cent water and the bees must have room to spread it so it may be refined. Bees re fine honey by fanning it with their wings. When refined the bees seal the honey in cells. Do not take off unsealed honey or it will sour. To help control swarm ing locate your yard so the sun LADIES, READ THIS UNUSUAL OFFER TO ACQl^AINT YOU WITH Snow Cream Flour “WHITE AS SNOW—RICH AS CREAM” there is a valuable Certificate packed in each bag which entitles you to a 10-piece set of GENT'INE 22k GOLD DECORATED ROYAL CHINA All you have to do is simply pay the few cents necessary to coyer the cost of packing, handling and transportation to your home. (Just a fraction of the retail value of this fine Chinaware.) GO TO YOUR NEAREST GROL'ER TODAY Buy a bag of this fine flour and get complete details of this unusual intro ductory offer and see samples of this beautiful Chinaware which are now on display at all good Grocery Stores. OUR guarantee We absolutely guarantee every bag of SNOW CREAM F^UR to give perfect satisfaction. If it does not, return the unus^ to the Grocer from whom you bought it and he will cheerfully refund every cent you paid for it. . ^ ^ ^ l ... RICHER—MORE ECONOMICAL SNOW CREAM FLOUR is richer, takes less shortening, goes further, is more economical and your baking will always be satisfactory. Once used, it is always preferrea by the best cooks. INSIST ON GENUINE SNOW CREAM FLOUR-^CCEPT NO SUB- STITLT'E ... A HIGH GRADE FLOUR AT A. POPULAR LOW PRICE It is made from only the richest part of the very choicest Wheat by STATESVILLE FLOUR MILLS COMPANY Statesville, North Carolina AND SOLD BY THE BEST GROCERS EVERYWHERE LOCAL WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS North Wilkesboro Grocery Go. WHOLESALE GROCERS NORTH WILKBSBORO NORTH CAROLINA - -•> of troiibie tfjritif to pre- vont swarms.' Many colonlw melt down from the heat at the son. Onr best strain of bees are the three band or leather colored Italian. The black bee is attacted more , by European foul brood and file bee moth. _ A a colony we have the male, f^ale and worker. The egg that produces a worker bee also pro duces the queen bee. The bees feed the worker egg royal Jelly which develops the sex and pro duces the queen. Both queen and workers are produced from a fertile egg. The male bee is produced from an in fertile egg and has no father, but has a grandfather. A queen can lay a fertile or an infertile egg at will. Very often a colony of bees loose their queen and if they do not have worker eggs under two days old they cannot raise an other queen, in this case the old bees die oft and the colony is lost. In most cases after bees have been queenless for some time worker bees will start lay ing. but their eggs are infertile and will produce drones or male bees. Worker bee eggs being In fertile they cannot produce a queen or worker. Look out for queenlesa colonies and as soon as discovered go to another col ony taking out a frame with fresh eggs and put in the queenless colony and they will rear a new queen. The bee hive is an emblem of industry. Within it we have or ganization and co-operation. At the front we have fifty to five hundred guards on duty to see that none pass or repass except those that have a load of nector or pollen. Inside we have nurse bees, comb builders, house cleaners, propholis carriers, nector car riers, water carriers and food mixers. Each morning scout bees are sent out in search of pastures. She will only partake of that which she >» sent for. If pasture is found she gathers a load and returns home with it. She reports her discovery, turns her load over to a young bee that can not fly and makes for the entrance to return to her discovery. Each bee is equipped with perfume glands and as she returns to her find she opens the perfume glands and sprays the air. Other bees track her to the discovery by the Oder she sprays in the air. Each colony seems to have its individual odor. In attempting to work a colony of bees smoke the entrance. This will knock the guards off duty. Don’t try to work with your bees on a cool rainy or windy day. Always work slowly, do not make a quick move or jar the colony as this will make them angry. Bee-keepers, do not become dis couraged because your bees did not get a crop of sourwood honey this season. It is no fault of the bees for if there had been honey and favorable weather they would have harvested the crop. Remember that it rained four weeks, day and night, during the sourwood flow, and that bees certainly could not gather honey under such conditions. Bees are extremely short on winter stores and those that do not examine their bees this tall and feed will loose them. Queens stop laying when there is no honey coming in. Brood rearln,g can be stimulated by feeding, thereby a force of bees can be had ahead of the honey flow. JIMMY WALKER STARTS HOME TO MARE COMEBACK Southampton. Eng., Oct. 29.— Jimmy Walker, his chin held high and the old fight of battle bright in his eyes, sailed for home aboard the S. S. Manhattan tonight ready and eager to face what he called one of the great est ordeals of his stormy career. This he started back to Broad way and the comeback trail brim ming with health after his three- year “self-imposed exile’’ abroad, w'here he lived in quaint old English cottage or visited contin ental spas. A live, trim figure in a blue serge topcoat and a felt hat. New York’s former mayor strode quickly through the crowded pier sheds with Mrs. Walker, the former Betty Compton, on his arm. Walker, now crowding 65, ap peared as jaunty as in the days when he took New York by storm a decade ago. He admitted tonight was, his “most excising night alnce I was a kid.’’ m Lsanber yV*'-- Daring .1^ ' coiurte of i months the organiMtion known m rtealey B. Brown/'dealer her, diatribatea many thouaanda doliaia tiur^ngh the medium of.tbir payroll and' money paid oat for lumber on which saw miBa and famish the product finds its way to the retail ^adh?' This is an important item‘d in the trade at North 'Wilkesboro, as all these dollars find their way to the avenues of trade. Mr. Brown employs a minimum of seventy people with approxi mately four to five million feet of lumber in stock continually. The plant is equipped most modemly, with a dry kiln of the progressive type, which has many advantages over the other style equipment Every bit of the machinery is the best kind of mechanical devices. The organization disposes of large amounts of material to outlet points in northern markets, Vir ginia and North Carolina. TOs go6F out in carload lots. The mill does surface and also resaws white pine lumber. The mill cuts furni ture and casket dimensions, and building material of all kinds. He also manufactures bee suppjics. The writer has been interested in the study of bees and knows this work wherein there is created homes for the bees to be most in teresting. Mr. Presley E. Brown was bom in Wilkes county. He has lived here all his life and during those years, an active participant in its political and commercial growth. During the meeting of the North Carolina Legislature, he served two terms, commencing in 1926. From 1906 to 1914, inclusive, the L PRESSLEY E. BROWN gentleman was sheriff of Wilkes county. We might add, he made a host of friends during that tenure of office, who are still his friends He owns considerable farm hold ings in the rural districts, besides valuable real estate and buildings in the towns of North Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro. Being keenly in terested and active in church work, he is a steward in the (Wilkesboro Methodist church. Mr. Brown is that type of worth while citizen that is not only noted in this conununity for good deeds, and his splendid co-operation he gives to movements inaugurated for the public good. He is affiliated with the Masons. While Joe Wagner was work ing in a North Carolina factory i November 6. the drive belt of a machine' BfeiltlF, Norq|_ ve getti«g re*- /I hoff-klUI^'' ;; .B,' - usoeiaU: proM^.' of animal hustendry at Statin ‘ 'College, is scheduled "to «aatoyjt^4 two radio Ulka on the 8UbJeet>- the first on Monday, Oct>ber and the second on Momiay, vember 4 In'his first talk Protesaor Nance discussed the preparatiom 'whUh . should be made- tor kill ing the hogs, and the second, hm will describe the actual methedg,;;.,. to follow In the slaughtering naA"*'^- meat caring. ^ Other timely talks which witt also be heard daring the week are; “How Insects and How They Are Controlled’’ by C. H. Bran non, extension entomologist, and "Sweet Potato Diseases’’ by Dr. R. P. Poole, professor of botany at State College. ’The full program of Carolina Farm Features for the week in cludes: Monday, R. B. Nance, “Preparing flor Hog-Killing*’; Tuesday, C. H. Brannon, "How Insects Feed and How They arw Controlled’’: Wtednesday, Dr. R. F. Poole, “Sweet Potato Diseas es’’; Thursday. Miss Sallie Brooks, “What Shall We HJat’’; Friday. H. C. Gauger, “Intestinal Parasites of Poultry’’; and Sat urday, Dr. W. D. Miller, “How A Tree Grows.’’ Timely programs to oe heard during the week of November 4- 9 include a talk on turkeys by C. J. Maupin on Friday. Novem ber 8, and a talk on “The Farm Tenant in North Carolina’’ by Dr. C. H. Hamilton on Wednes- caught his coat and hurled him | When two men of equal intel- through a window. Joe was only I Ugence quarrel and abuse each bruised, but he had to buy a other and go to law over it, they new coat. | wrong. After issuing a public chal lenge at a Pair in Mltchem, Eng.,. Jamea WWters. n 3j>rpf?»iIonia TIMBER Has Been, and Is, One of Wilkes County^s Greatest Resources We are happy to have had a part in develop ing the timber industry in this section. The income derived from lumber has had much to do with the progress our county has made during the past 25 years. WE SELL ALL KINDS OF LOWEST PRICES on ALL KINDS OF Ree SuddHcs BUILDING We manufacture all kinds of bee supplies and solicit the patronage of bee keepers in this section . Keep us in mind when you need sup plies for next season. We wish to call your attention to an interest ing and instructive article on Bee Culture wnt- ten by Mr. B. L. Johnson, wdl known ^e specialist, which appears in this Progress Edi tion of The Journal-Patriot. MATERIAL —Flooring, —Ceiling, —Roofers, —^Trim, and —Oak Steps Let us estimate the cost of the building material needed for your next job. North WiOtesboro Nmtii
The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 31, 1935, edition 1
19
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75