1 f "MHnmiin. iiuiii Mi m Be it ordained by the Board; of Commissioner s of the City of Hen dersonville that for any person, firm or corporation to permit any dog or dogs to run at large in the cor porate limits of the City of Hender sonville shall be guilty of a misde niearior and upon conviction of the violation of this ordinance, before the Mayor shall forfeit and pay a fine of $5.00. And, provided, also, that any such dog for dogs found at large in said corporate limits shall be shot or otherwise killed immediately, by the police department of said city. 2 G. W. Brooks, .Secretary C. E. Brooks Mayor 2Z Sstter SEieet si Metal Worn Any kind of Roofing, Guttering or Conductor Work, Metal Ceilings, Sky Lights or Galvanized Iron Cornices Best qualities and reason able prices. Factory and Public Building Work a Sp3ciaty T. P. Johnson & Co. 69-71 Biltmore Ave. AS HE V1LLE, N. C. jAccoimiant ' EXPERT AUDITOR Periodicals audits, books closed and financial statements rendered. Books opened for new corporations, firms or individuals. - Audits for banks and public boards and commissions a. specialty. REFERENCES': " All Ashe ville banks. D G. Devenish . Phone 1236 v - Asheville, N. C. -: SOME THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT BEES AND HONEY (Continued from Page Three.) manufacture. Honey absorbs mois ture and things made with t do not dry up and get hard, Honey also pre vents things in which it is an ingredl. ent from becoming musty. Honey al ways loses its flavor when hatfid, otherwise its value is not impaired. Doctors, in this country, and especial, ly in Europe, are using honey more and more in convalescence from vari ous diseases.. They are using car. loads after car loads for the soldiers recovering from various ailments of the battle field today. When they can. be assured of a pure product, which there can be now in most localities, the doctors of this country will use an amount undreamd of. Honey is also used extensively in making fine soap, cold creams and lotions. Wh'o has not heard of Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream? The production of honey nec essarily carries with it the production of wax, though in value to a much smaller extent since it takes about the amount of honeycomb which could contain about 40 pounds of honey to make one pound of wax, and then, too. as a large amount of honey produced is sold with the comb this proportion would not hold good as to the actual wax production. Nevertheless, in the United States alone more than two million dollars worth of wax is pro duced annually. This wax is used in the arts and. is invaluable. Hundreds of tons however, are used in the pro duction of what is known as artificial comb, which is in reality a thin sheet of wax which passes through a press. This machine impresses hexagonal in dentures in the wax just the size and shape of the base of the natural wax cell as made by the beesf This-ls used as "Starters" to majee the bees build their comb straight and to hasten them to accept the little boxes and frames which we use for them to fill with honey. Without this "Starter" we could never have "any considerable amount of section honey which we are accustomed to purchasing from oar grocer. The use of honey and wax are go numerous that it would be tire some if, I attempted to even delineate, the greater part of them, which I doubt very much if I could do in the first place, I have given some idea, however, of their uses and. will; pass on to the other side of the proposition, namely, .the bees the producers of these articles. . . . . We do not know just'wheji man be came , familiar with a rudimentary knowledge of the. honey bee, but it is evident that that knowledge is as old as any considerable advancement among the human races. We find evi dences of it in Egypt in the age of about 3,000 years B. C. We find also that God used honey as, a typical arti cle to describe to Moses the wonderful land to which he .would lead tJ;e:pep. ple of Israel There are many refer-; erics to 'honey-in the Bible and-all tend to show thatthe honey bee was known to man long years ago. The strange part of it is that while man had this rudimentary knowledge of the honey bee at such remote ages there has not been; or was not, in the thousands of. years following any material advance ment .in that knowledge, commercially speaking. It has " been only within the last sixty years that mate rial advancement, alog this line has taken place. About sixty years ago the movable frame hive was patented and at that time we might say: began the industry. Knowledge began to ac cumulate with leaps and bounds and today it would seem that apiculturels beginning to be recognized as an in dustry of note. The government us ... i m A 9 . ;now providing scnoois oi siuay auu making appropriations to stimulate this, industry and . disseminate a knowledge of it throughout the coun try. The success of . handling a largo number of colonies of bees profitably depends absolutely on a knowledge of certain .truths pertaining to them, and not merely upon the fact that we read that such , and such things are truths, but we must know and feel within ourselves that they are actually truths. Any person can purchase a few hives nf hPP with the nrobabilitv that seem- mr surcGss will follow for a short time from the very nature of the bees ex. iistance. But it i3 certain that cuch a ) condition is short lived and doomed ifrnm Yio vdrv nature of the case. It I Ulil vv ' -w- J . , is absolutely necessary to know wny this seeming success, preceeding sure failure. We must" remember, that it takes lots of experience and study to handle a large number of colonies profitably and it is very necessary that one get a good standard book on the subject and subscribe to some , good bee journal as means of saving countless failures and discourage ments. Ttfere are some things a lot of them that will only come by experi ence. But . we must know what : to do . before we carknow how to do iC With the tielp -given in thi3 Tvay any Intelli gent person who can read and under stand what he is reading can be suc cessful with bees. Now, there are two kinds of bees in this country which have supplanted all others a honey gatherers, etc.. and these two are the black or common bee which Is Indlgi nous, and the Italian or yellow bee which we Imported from Italy. The black bee will on the average build lighter comb than the Italian bee and will as" a rule stay in the hive on cold days or' mornings when an exit might result in freezing and thus deplete the working force of the colony; . On the other hand the Italian bee is less sub ject to disease; is thrifter (will fre quently leave the hive in quest of nec tor .when the weather is so cold that they freeze or become paralyzed and unable to return) and will make more honey on the average than the blacK3. They have a longer tongue v and can get nector from flowers from which the black bee can not, arid they are more gentle and generally more easily handled. The. various strains ol th;e two bees differ ' greatly in general characteristics and upon one jretting the more desirtle 'of sich character istics depends a good eal on whethei one makes a success or -failure. In every hive or colony of bee3 we have the following: the queen bee; , tho drone, and ' the worker. The queen is the only fully developed female bee In the hive, save at certain periods of the swarming, season.; She lays all the eggs that produce the thousands of bees in ,the hive (some times two or three thousand eggs she lays daily).. There is . only one laying queen in .a hive . at one . time: The . que?n lives from one to-five years and occasionally longer.- The drone bee is 'tho male bee. We find him. in the hi v only during the swarming and mati.ig s.'u.. son. At the end of this period he is driven from the hive and perishes in various ways. The. worker hee Is an undeveloped female bee. There are many thousands of them in a good col ony. Should a colony lo3e-its queen when there ar no drones the probabil ity is that the new queen reared from an egg which would' otherwise pro duce a worker bee would not be mated. She would. lay eggs which would only produce lrones and in all probability the hive would soon die out as there would be no bees to take the dace of the ones dyeing off. As the colony be-. came weaker in numbers the moths or "worms" would take possession. ) A fertile queen, therefore, lays two kinds of eggs, one produces a drone or male bee and the, other a female. But per haps only xme in a hundred thousand or more is fully developed into' a queen and therefore most of them become workers. When a queen Is made she never leaves the hive except when tak irig a swarm with her. While the queen may live four or five years the work er's life is very seldom over four months and in the summer they gen erally wear themselves out in a few weeks. The -hdhey comb is an oily secretion from the worker bee and this tan be produced at will under certain weather .or temperature conditions. There should be in a good vigorous colony from one hundred to one hun dred' and fifty thousand bees, though mny colonies with far less "than that number store considerable honey on favorable years. Of course in winter the number of bees in a colony is not nearly so great as in summer. But a stood strong colony ought to consist of from twenty-five to thirty-five thou sand. It will be seen, therefore, that about the- most important thing about a colony of bees is to have a queen that will produce a large number of bees. All things being equal it is the number of hees which produce the honey and not the number of hives one has. A good vigorous colony of bees in a tight hive will never become a prey to the boths or "worms" as the-: are called. These pests are appar ently the cause of the most of the fail ures with bees in this section. The real cause, however, is excessive swarming and starvation in winter. Swarming is natures way of making increase, but one swarm is as. many as should be allowed from a colony in one season, and if ft were possible-to prevent swarming altogether the hon ey crops would be very materially in creased. A hive of bees Is like a lien they become, very "broody" before swarming and waste a lot of time in which they could produce lots of hon ey. Unfortunately we can not prevent swarming altogether, but we can con trol it to such an extent that we are not materially effected, by it. We now know how to raise queens and start new colonies without waiting f dr the bees to swarm, and then by minimiz ing the swarming we gain considera bly In the transaction. A hive that swarms .naturally once loses about half the bees then able to fly, when it swarms again the same season It does so within a few days after, tho first time and It again loses half of the bees then able able to' fly and so pn for as many swarms as are cast. Some times as many as a dozen swarms will come from' one hive in one season. They alVcome from one set of queen, reared before the first swarm is -cast and left in the cells by the old queen who leaves " with the first swarm. - It. will-be seen then that after the first swarm there is no queen in th hive and all the eggs "she. left; will have hatrhWi in twenty-one days so that continual swaming so depletes the hive in number that before the last queen is mated and her eggs hatched there ar sn fGw.hees-in the hive to defend it that very frequently5 other hives rob them of all they nave ana me Dees leave the 'hive and attempt to go into another one when very frequently they are all stung to death. But whether they stay and are not robed or whem- of ttiev are robed and leave, you gen- eraliv find the hive in a few week3 well filled with vworms" ana we mmK ine worms killed the bees. But aio strong colony of bees is ever killea by .worms. The same thing: happens when the bees starve in. winter. The first we know of it in the spring is to' find the hive filled with worms arid we, think the worms killed the bees.. Nothing of the kind! " See that the bees have plenty .of honey to carry them over the winter and you will see no moths he next cpring. There are diseases, of course, that make serious inroads on tho bees, but I Tiave never seen any of them in this locality., It is necessary, how ever, to know how to combat, them when they appear since no locality is immune to them. Under all these con dition we must have the movable frame hives, but it must be remember ed that a cood colony, of bees will build as much money in a wash pot, -If you will turn IT upside down, as ttiey will in the best and most convenient of hives. The value of the movable frame hive is that it Is convenient to handle and gives us the honey in a shape that it' can be easily marketed. It gives us the opportunity of at sul times knowing how the bees are and what they are doing. We can not suc cessfully keep bees in any other way. But the hive itself will 'not insure success. With them and the proper use of them we should in this section secure an average of fiftv nounds of honey annually where not more than a hundred colonies are kept for each four square miles. Of course loca tions differ. Where there is no flora there will be no honey. There is lots and lots to know about bees and it is therefore riot safe for one to launch into the handling of them on any con siderable scale. One must start with a few hives and increase as experience demands. In conclusion will say that any person wishing to get inforfSation along this line can do so by communi cating with the Board of Agriculture of Henderson county. : Very truly, JOHN EWBANK. r .:A. I-IT.IOREY DENTIST ' r.lorey Building 1PHONE6C) . j, - '-. -.... v - Dr. Hinder Linden DENTIST - Phone 351 . Off ice over Duff s Holmes Building DR, H.;L. KEITH (Successor to Br. W. F. Nickel.) DENTIST. : ' . " r Office: Over Hunters Pharmacy. W. Marshall Bridges '"' ' LAWYER, ... " Holmes Building. . - Hendersonville, N. C. AN. OLD-FASHIONED IDEA. - - f .'-, . ' w r ' Another thing that makes us tired is the mother who goes to her daugh ter's room at 10 o'clock In the morn ing an dsays. "Get up, dear, your breakfast is ready." Our idea is that daughter ought to be fetching batter eakes in from the kitchen at 7:30 and getting the eld man in good humor for his day's work. Houston Post. dr. e. a. McMillan (Successor to Dr. W. T, Wallace) . DENTIST QGce: Burckmyer Building, 4th At Phone 442. Hftn dersonville. N. C3. DR. EHRINGHAUS Dentist PHONE 57-J. Office over J. O. Williams. j HENDERSONVILLE, N. C TAKES OFF DANDRUFF, HAIR STOPS FALLING Save your Hair! Get a 25 cent bottle of Danderlne right how Also stops itching scalp. England imported $150,000,000 worth of bacon last year. -r Thin, brittlo, colorless and scraggy hair is mute evidence of a neglected scalp; of dandruff that awful scurf. c There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hale of its lustre, its strength and Its very, life; eventually producing a feverish ness and Itching of the scalp, whicK If not remedied causes the hair roots to shrink, loosen and die then the "hair falls, out fast. A little Danderlne tonight now -any time will surety save your . hair. Get a"25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderlne from any drug store. You surely can have beautiful hair and lots of it if you will Just try a little Dan derlne. 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