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v just a buibmbee by jennie a reeher rff j registered pedigree poultry notable progress has been made in poultry raising in canada in recent years to which the laying contests held in every province of the domln- i ion have materially contributed a the front yard of the big farmhoney it is made of wax and it house was bright with early spring round like a little bowl it is placed greatly increased average throughout flowers tulips narcissus and iris near the entrance to the nest and all the contests has been reached in dandelions bespangled the grass like close enough to the mother bee that a few years which is direct evidence golden stars charlie the tenyearold she can eat from it without leaving of a remarkable improvement in the son of the home and i a visitor were her eggs thus too she is facing her breeding work behind hundreds of en- enjoying the morning looking for new door to guard against intruders in tries reprsenting thousands of mat- blossoms that might have opened durj about four days the eggs hatch and ings ing the night a demonstration rose garden the demonstration rose garden males there is certain to be surplus stock of lesser lineage not qualified for registration many of these aw of good breeding but not tested to the same extent as registered stock these birds are- available in large numbers from breeders of registered idea but upon reflection you will find iced drinks for simm desserts by jane hemmingway it may seem at first glance a daring tins to serve with the iced drinks that stock ft an attractive and sound one that of serving an iced drink for the sum mer dessert in the summertime a thirst quencher is far more acceptable at the end of the meal than any ad ditional nourishment the old standbys are always wel htt 1ct m ku f th huurw ale grape juice ice tea coffee and him shouted the httle bov home their mother enlarges the cell im ono m iuncuat tne town or marknam ill- ginger shouted the little boy stop i spoke quickly home their mother enlarges the cell to twoounce eggs as a ni-j- t irstdvanced chocolate and currant or raspberry he as they grow thus always keemmr in j n mjisw aires irora toronto nas aaancea grabbed a hi a made for the them covered with wax m firs f ai the bird sufficiently to enable rose growers to a wafe a a iced cocoa foran iced foodmo1gsl many of the leadinf varieties j54 i 1 1 is derent mixtogot bee dont hurt it come hero to the opens the cell and puts food among standard characters laid down porch and i will tell you a story about them then closes it again but in a the breed for roaes a half are needed on the very hot days loganberry punch kub a banana through the colander add it and the juice of one lemon to each quart of loganberry juice serve with cheese crackers white grape juice float seed and halve white grapes cut two or three bananas into tiny dice and add fruit to prepared white grape juice scrval with lemon waters cocoa drink different mix together a cupful if acre in which one ough dessert for anyone bfss this handsome bee few days they are large enough to t j h i fif huh theres nothing pretty about stand up wedged closely side by side the standard for the male is still ed ast year is now blooming in pro- tev for i esstrttbft a syrup and chill then u uvi ml r a u uv i imore severe he must be bred from fusion and an additional half acre has when one wishes or a dessert a bit a fflwwnmnfn ai an old bumblebee they sting wo and then she feeds each baby bee sepi i- rrnv- m aiv boys like to rob their nests and get aratoly she fills each little mouth da and pwsf m e chbeen opened up this spring the soil moro elaborate the honey he said scornfully i with honey and pollen mixed from her j t lssif i j par ly table sherbet ale is delicious and refresh- is an achievement worthy of an offijtho plants to the best possible advan- vrith singer ale servo with roll vay a qualifications to bleed such a malebcen done with a view to ihnwino- off or mon m c gloss and fill it such a thing robbing mother nature canary bird feeds its young soon iiiiult ti is v v un with einirer nle sorvv with roll of something she needs in the worlds they are full grown and spin them- 1 a vement worthy of an offithe plants to the best possible advan- g vsssw wi tjs r uktji x5iti kii-tst- o record and a number of such males t tho garden occupies an open waf o x work listen to me mark and bery as a protection from north winds j 7 added when on ir i ilthe mixture is half frozen i continued selves thin touch blankets for cocoons cal rworu alu t ucn mares tage tho garden occupies an open j w nicest ice to this big bee we saw is not x it in which ths to sleep ouleni wlh v procurable this year with sunny- spot with a slight southern j ia ono f i qua parts lssffissk u youshoul mothertutwlx fifdss sjsj- th and a broad boulevard of zj3 kill her you would destroy the little and then sho has rows of pale yellow home she has founded i think her sleeping babies black and yellow suit is handsome i warm and so she noticed you liked tho black and yellow night and day sweater your mother gave you any- does sho still keep the honey pot the number of daughters of registered dams that qualify in the contest in creases in breeding up to tho excellent how why do you want to kill the bee inquired charlie i smiled at him as i questioned oh yes there are yet many cold dont know answered charley days but here is something queer guess its because it might sting me she could not cover all the cocoons if sho never would unless you hurt they were flat on tho same level her or invaded bar homo i replied therefore the two outer rows are now for the story first do you higher than tho centre ones the lar- know what cocoons and larvae are v composing these rows have been yes indeed we learned all about d a little better than the others thus them in nature study at school said making them grow taller queen bee tho little boy j knows her business you see in the fine then you will understand groove thus made she sits the groove everything i tell you you know how s always made so her head faces the a hen broods her eggs and little chick- 1 entrance flattening and stretching breeders registered thev mutteledti carr a11 tho identification marks j practically all classes of roses are to mixture- is half frozen brthem aex their blcedi bo found in this garden contributed del ta a w ot 1 the number will be limited thisby nurserymen in holland england i s p d rub them year but the supply will increase as ireland the united states and canf tho cohinder sweeten to ada tho garden is open to the pub- ta3t flavor with a few drops of al- lic and being close to the public high- m s and add a l of r way it is expected that a great many m 8i threequarters full rose lovers will visit the ground this of thls top with whipped standard demanded in registered year effective methods of controeng weeds by e s hopkins the most effective method of con trolling weeds is thorough and fre- 5 quent cultivation of tho land usually ens to keep them warm yes well her abdomen until the central cocoons i ths can gi m03t economically mother queen bumblebee does that are covered and then putting her legs by adopting the proper cultural metli- very thing she hovers her eggs and over the raised outside ones she clasps j ods in connection with the regular ro- babie3 them close to her sides thus all are how do you know that she does k warm aunt annie said charlie his face why she must love those babies aglow with interest of hers exploded charlie i never because wise mon have watched reaized before that a bumblebee her do it and have written in books knew anything i like to hear about all tliey observed i returned this her 9 on aunt annie bee you wanted to kill came from the lsn much more to tell in nest last august a fine large young afew davs the young bees come out queen only a few days old her coat the ceus and then the queen has was fresh and glossy her life free p of helpers this brood is much from any care as she flitted around all smallersized insects than those hatch cream and sprinkle with sliced blanch ed almonds serve very cold liquid gold make a very thin cus tard using only tho yolks of the eggs and no cornstarch or other thickening flavor it with rose or any other flav oring you wish dilute with cream if it is too thick add finely chopped day sucking nectar from the flowers and flying in the warm air where one day she met her mate she was stor ing up energy for the future ed later the queen keeps on laying ggs which the workers care for whie they also gather much nectar and pollen the big honey pot where ad she go at night asked ll u and tho wax used for other tho child did she go back to the in a few weeks the colony has nest arown until there are hundoods of no she never went back- after j 1usy bumblebees in it in the late leaving it at night she crept in a a doben or mora larva- a cultivation especially immediately idates and walnuts just a sprinkling after plowing in order to prevent all of them and top with whipped cream green growth the whole work will dusted with macaroon crumbs serve be wasted if green growth is allowed with brandy snaps these little snaps at any time because the roots will then are so cahod because they are used be revived again and their life pro- often as an accompaniment to that longed spirit when it is served overseas in the fell this land should be plow- thj reci wa8 b an e rl n train tvit vfr tztiirrh avap iirlntai crevice on the south side of a building or wall or some such warm place but later on the weather began to fed in such a way tjst they grow irto large fine queens and are sent from of tho revenue from one crop it is desirable to use other methods if at jail possible where a rotation of three or four years duration is practiced consist ing of one year in corn or other inter tilled crop one year in grain and one or two years in hay it is necessary to prepare the sod land thoroughly in preparation for the intertilled crop and also to cultivate the intertilled crop itself in a most thorough manner this work will not be necessary tation used on ones farm occasion ally where some noxious weeds be come unusually troublesome it may be led again and left rough over winter h tonmkothoatias necessary to summerfallow the land if manure is available at this time of i j attji but as this method involves the loss this time if jt is not available it qter j from fl and may be applied in the winter or in butter fa melted ad the spring and then disced in the all beati ku ti land should be cultivated n the spring j flnd several times before the time of seed- thirds of m of three ng the interbred crop i of of troubled with couchtass or similar tzzzzj s weeds having underground rootstalks if the land is free from these weeds this is the most convenient time to control the weeds and the opportunity should not be overlooked in the four- year rotation the timothy sod may be plowed in many districts by aug j ust 1 while in the case of the three i if mustard or similar weeds are prevalent it is advisable to merely j disc or cultivate the corn ground or where other intertilled crops have been grown rather than plow tho wuv w reason for this is that the surface the nest as was our queen mother last year rota where two cuttings of layer of soil has already been- thor- grow cold can you guess what sho j- no weather will soon be cold c are harvested the plowing will oughly cultivated and the majority of did bees cannot endure cold youi mother lays no more eggs not p until about september the weed seeds contained in it germin- know one day she leaves the nest and wan- f where couch grass is present or ated and killed it is a mistake she might have holed up for the dors among some late flowers en joy- j wner there are any other weods hav- therefore to plow up a new layer of winter like the chipmunks do he g their nectar the sky is blue the in underground rootstalls it is soil on such land which will contain answered j air warm but tho bee is old and rusty ver v important to get the land plowed an abundance of viable weed seeds good guess charlie that is exact- 1 poking she goes to sleep among the ear and to cultivate it throughout two inches apart and bake in a slow oven remove from the pan with a longbladed knife and roll over tho handle of a wooden spoon little wafers and cookies may be made on a cool day or early in the morning and put away in airtight add two tablespoonfuls of strong cof fee for every glass to be served uso three tablespoonfuls of tho syrup and three of shaved ice fill up with rich milk and shake well iced coffee do luxe place a large spoonful of coffee ice cream in a glass fill with lco cold coffee and top with whipped cream angel cake is a de licious accompaniment for either iced coffee or chocolate toa punch one cupful of sugar and one cupful of hot tea infusion when this is quite cold add ono cup- ful of orange julco threequarters of a cupful of lemon juice ono pint of- ginger ole one pint of water one tablespoonful of chopped preserved ginger and a large piece of ice this is a most refreshing drink mint sangaree make a fruit lem onade of lemon orange and pineapplo juice color a light green with a harmless vegetable coloring paste and and mint flavoring to taste serve with a sprig of fresh mint in each glass orange rickey fill each glass one- third full of cracked ice add orango juice until the glass is half full then flu to the top with ginger ale serve with little nut cakes mint chocolate add mint flavor ing to the iced chocolate top with whipped cream sprinkle with a few tiny little green mint candies fruit limeade make your limeade of fresh umss add shced straw berries and grated pineapple serve with fruit cookies i make a very delicious fruit cooky using an old aunts recipe and thej are very popular with my patrons the recipe calls for a heaping cupful of butter one and a half cupfuls of sugar two eggs beaten separately three tablespooniuls of sour milk ono small teaspoonful of soda one pound of raisins and as little flour as possible to make the batter stiff enough to roll out bake in a moderate oven have you a foot scraper if the men folks had to sweep tho house just on week there would le moro foot scrapers at the doors of the farm homes a foot scraper costs practically nothing and yet it will save a great deal of dirt from being another effective means of checking taken into the house ly what she did she went searching fl the c n comes on but- the rema of the fall after the weeds is to hand pick isolated patches i several things may be used to make september y ls done land has been plowed it should be this work can often be done when the a good footscraper one may use an cmm0 sxciuswejzsafa around as soon as the chill came in the air until she found a small hole extending far beneath the roots of a tree down at tho furthest end of it she snugly slept all through the long winter while the snow was piled a foot or more deep over the ground outside one warm april day the queen mother awoke no more easy times for me she might have said if she could have talked like a boy she crawled out of the ground and filled herself with honey from the early spring flowers then started to eeek for a nesy ive seen em ive seen ml shouted charide jumping up and down big bumblebees alone hunting round going into and coming out of botes sometimes they getnto the fcouse onto the window and we kill them oh chariie i 6m dont ever- do now listen the queen toby flds a piaco that suits her her busy little life ended i wont ever kill another bumble- bee said charlie but tell me auntie w ar6 thcy y i should be disced in about a weeki ihey are most important to the time and the discing continued at farmers all bees fertilize the flowers about one weeks interval until the that is help them so they can beargod has rotted sufficiently to enable seed but the bumblebee is the only the use of the cultivator when this harrowed in order to hasten the rot- weeds are first seen but if it cannot old plowshare or any piece of metal ting of the sod and if couch grass or be done then it may be done later or they may be purchased cheaply other similar weeds are present it when other work i3 not pressing it however the blade of an old shovel may seem like small business to pick upturned and sot in the edg3 of the by hand a few weeds but such a work concrote step will make a dandy foot- is a very profitable investment and scraper it should lean slightly out- the returns if not apparent in that ward so that falling dirt will clear particular year will bo realized in the step a box may be set under tho later years when such patches would scraper to catch the dirt and when it otherwise have infested larger areas is full itimay be conveniently emptied and seriously reduced the yieldsof a footecraper not only prevents a fi s j bum na ground the underground rootstalks j crops in any event tho longer the do- great deal of work for the women- mh l th there some objection may be taken to tho lay in eradicating the weeds the folks but it also saves shoe leather by would be no clover most farmers u of the disc harrow owing to its 1 greater amount of work there will bo more cleanly removing manure and one which has a tongue long enough to get the honey from red clover and thus fertilize it not a head would bear first is possible the cultivator should bo substituted for the disc harrow in order to bring to tho surface of tho know this but few know tho story of the life of the bumblebee there comes papa and im going to toll him ail about em wait daddy and full of enthusiasm he left me while i sauntered toward the house cutting tho roots of the weeds but it appears to be necessary to use this implement as early as possible after plowing and before the sod has lotted enough to permit tho use of the culti vator in order to check the top growth of the weeds in fact the egglaying contests during the season of 192324 twelve often it j an abandoned nest of the egglaying contests were conducted by yfo mouse in a log or banoh of the poultry division of the central ebs or ujider the roots of a tree experimental farm a canadian 3 ff the floor then arranges contest was held at ottawa and the 5w or moss and grass in a circle other eleven were provincial these round iv then she goes away fe contests which- have been carried on gather pon which is as you know since 1919 are intended to encourage the dust of flowers ah hnds of bees and improve the breeding of poultry father it tj feed their young wo along lines of egg production to pro- a f did you 0v6p vide reliable information for breeders and a medium of qualification for the eventually it is simply the opera- other leathereating substances from tion of the same principle as that the soles h i h which is familiarly known by the ex- pression a stitch in time i a summer drink it is important to use at all times clean seed grain clover and grass in trying to combine a number of seed it is simply a waste of effort necessary food values in ono summer basicprinciple in killing weeds which to work the land to eradicate weedsj drink for threeyearold daughter have underground rootstalks is to while at tho same time polluting it call it bee broad bee bnad- ye sometimes it is in honey- j registration of poultry according to comb from a bjvo of bees father has tlw 1s2i report of the dominion poul- jmoked out and put in another hivo husbandman tho contests have it doesnt tasto good brought about a remarkable improve- it tastes good to fho baby bees v in the brce of poultry and queen mother gathers a lump of pol- j v0 much to sta the in- ten mjxes it with honey then fastens j canaaa -the- increase in i to the floor of her nest upon top p between the first and fifth thjaiump she builds aciroular wall jj the contests is 57 eggs per f wax then inthls cell lays her first z p which is distributed atch of eggs about a dozen and fin- v the publications granch dopt of j ehes by sealing a cover of wax ovor a ottawa gives a djtailedl it the tvholo thing is small about account o 192324 contests in the size of a pea as soon ns it is ch 3 hens took p and laid completed tho mother liko a tiny hen 2 av of 1696 eggs per hen its on those eggs night and day oniv p m the nova scotia section teavlng when tho sun is high to get 813 in 52 weeks out of bonoy for her own food but you know tavin 200 e a over that at this time of year cold storms qualified for registration lasting for several days aro liable to 7 come if tho bumblebee loft her ozes larkcun problems will be much at such a time they would chih and n iyd when wc have con- she would perish therefore sho v 0ur saics g that we aro builds a honoy pot and keeps it filled t up ar honc 8 p and thus has foo for stormy days i- y understar that thcy can how big is the honey pot aunt ot j to a advantage annie and what is it made of s5i 0 part of borax t two of hv charic hs ecs sparkling prevent their sending up top or above- j with dirty sosd the supply of ma- ground growth if this is continued nuro should be rotted on farms where long enough the roots will die the j weeds aro prevalent in order to pre- process is facilitated by any method vent this means of spreading weed of cultivation which will tear out the seeds over the farm but where weeds roots and leave them on the surface j aro not present it is a mistake to rot of the ground where they will be kill- tho manure owing to the losses of ed by the sun it is imperative to give j manurial constituents incident to the the land very frequent discing and rotting process i evolved tho following nourishing re freshing drink for adults as well as children juice 1 orange juice 1 lomon cup sugar 2 eggs yolks and whites boaten separately 1 quart milk beat ail ingredients together the white of the egg will io to tho top of the pitcher cracked ice is added for adults mrs p w it hoilj iicary a timbsful 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