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t$m%iif^f^^fr *x*w "tW'^W^ ^y. gngnpngnaiaisnaiiaBfBfBfBJBrgisig'fignsEngnBrBiBBPrnBai eaiiiflBitiflflaeaiaiflajeii 'THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT important part in this respect. Of course, the bee unconsciously does its work of fertilizing blossoms, its prime object being to secure the nectar se creted in the corolla but as it buries itself deep in the blossom it carries on its downy body the fertilizing pol len, which is transmitted to the sta mens. Jean Ingelow noted the little fel lows coated with pollen, and wrote: Oh, velvet bee' you're a dusty fellow You ve powdered your legs with gold. According to Gleanings in Bee Cul ture no state, perhaps, produces more apples and grapes than does New York, and perhaps in no other state is bee-keeping carried on so extensive ly. The connection between the two, therefore, is manifest. I remember reading of a section of California where cherries were pro duced in enormous quantities, and in cidentally bees were kept by some who were not engaged in the produc- I'll'l li I ill IU ii.M 6?' BECAUSE: 1It aims to publish all the news possible 2It does so impartially, wasting no words 3-Its correspondents are able and energetic-^ VOL. 22. N0.22. (V The Honey Bee in Hot House Gardening' How Thrifty German Gets Cttcumberi Out of Season and Makes Money. Jt "The one great mission of the honey-bee is fructification the honey she may store is to interest us in her propagation." Up-to-date horticultrists have known for years that the presence of bees among tne blossoms means an in crease in quantity and quality of fruit. In some sections there has been ob jection raised to bees by fruit-growers who declared that they were stinging the fruit. Those who have made a study of bees know full well that the bee has no implement with whica to open a sound specimen of fruit. The hornet and wasp, both of which have sharp Jaws with which to tear old bark from trees and kindred substances with which they build their nests, will fre quently bite a grape, a pear, or a peach and because a honey-bee is seen sipping the juice that runs, some fruit-growers have declared them enemies when the reverse is the case. One has but to watch the busy fel lows as they work from blossom to blossom, to see that, in pollenizing fruit, they are the greatest of bene factors. Take, for instance, an apple blossom. We find in it the stamens with their corresponding anthers. While it is true that the winds will, in a measure, carry the pollen from the anthers to the stamens, yet at best it is imperfectly done. The body of a honey-bee is covered with a heavy down that plays a very CAUGHT 1 N THE ACT (Cucumber Blossom with a Bus Bee Scattering Pollen Upon It.) HIVE PLACED WITH. ENTRANCE IN SIDE OF GREENHOUSE. tion of fruit. For some reason a quarrel arose between the bee-keep ers and the cherry-growers, who claimed the bees were stinging the fruit, with the result that the bees were shipped away. In a few months the cherry crop began to dwindle, and almost fail and when the growers met together to consider the cause it was found that, with the sending away of the bees, the crop had begun to fail. There happened to be one or two wise heads in the convention, who surmised the cause and as an experi ment the bees were brought bacK, with the result that the crop went back to its former proportions, thus showing the close relation between bees and fruit. What is true of fruit-blossoms Is also true of many others, chief of which is the cucumber. There are two distinct kinds of blossoms upon a cucumber vinethe male and fe male and in order to get the fruit the pollen must be carried from the male to the female. During the summer, when the cutered cumbers are grown out of doors, bee* in the vicinity kept in hives, or livinjr "Arfe!f tmm^^miis^M^wmmm^ W ..BfiiwMmffl A wild in old trees, will fully accom plish the purpose. When it comes however, to raising early cucumbers in a hothouse, when the vines will be blossoming before the bees are aflight, one is^confronted by a serious proposition. Mr. J. P. Becker, of Morganville, N J., found that, if he could get a'crop of cucumbers grown in hothouses so as to get them to market before those grown out in the field should arrive, he would be able to command splendid price for them. After care ful thought he determined to try the experiment of placing a hive of bees in each hothouse to see if they would pollemze the vines. Hives with strong colonies were brought, and placed in each end of each house so that the bees could fly out into the house from one hive-entrance or out of doors as they preferred. The writei visited the hothouse during April, when the blossoms covered the vines, and the noise of the bees could be dis tinctly heard as they went from flower to flower. So thorough did the little bees do the work requL id, that, with few exceptions, healthy cucumbers formed at each female blossom. The crop that followed was enor mous both as to size and quality, some specimens being a foot long, and as much as three inches in diameter. Not only were the cucumbers fine in ap pearance, but especially luscious were they for eating. So thoroughly did Mr. Becker succeed that he deter- mined to go in on a larger scale, un til now he has eight hothouses about 300 feet long by 50 feet deep, all steam-heated, with a force of about 15 men to manage them, all growing cu cumbers. Lettuce Is raised in the houses from October to March, the cucumber-vines not being set out until about the mid dle of March. The vines are started in hotbeds in the houses, and when set out in the houses they are in most cases two or three feet in length, with buds just starting. Heavy steel wire is stretched on poles, and forms a support for the growing vines that fairly fill the house as, year after year, they produce sev eral hundred barrels of cucumbers, and that at a time when the prices they command are big. There is, however, a pathetic side to the case and that is, the loss of the bees After the little fellows fly about the house from blossom to blossom they fail in most cases to find their hives, and hundreds of them can be seen bobbing against the glass roof oi the house, trying to get outside. It doesn't take much of this to put them out of business, and so we find hundreds of dead bees on the floor which could not get to their homes This being the, case, Mr. Becker is compelled to buy new hives each year for his houses but as this is merely a matter of a few dollars' output for a return of many hundreds of dollars, the item is looked upon as one oiintercede necessary expense. Thus year after year this shrewd old German makes the bees help him pro duce early cucumbers which, without their help, would be impossible. It is therefore, very evident that all who grow fruits and certain vegetables should be sure that there are bees enough in the neighborhood to Insure the proper fertilization of the blos soms. A Profit Making English Show Sow The United States has no monopolj on swine growing. The sow picture* A PROFIT MAKING ENGLISH SOW. above is an English product known at Gilbert Greenall. This animal was en In many British fairs the pas! season, when Bhe scored several first nd m* DC^JC) American visitors to the charming island of Martinique will no longer be able to gratify their curiosity and pay their respects to a real live king of Af rica, for Behanzin, the former king of Dahomey, has departed under the direction of the French government for Blldah, Algeria, where he will re main a prisoner, close to that other royal captive, Ranavalo, queen of Madagascar. King Behanzin has been interned at Fort de France since 1894 when he was captured by Gen. Dodds and theHayti Dahomey uprising quelled. The lite of the old warrior here was a sad anderals, melancholy one notwithstanding the fact that his three wives two daugh ters and only son, Prince Wanilo. were his constant^ccuapanions, and the further fact that his movements in Martinique were not restricted. He was free to move about the city and surrounding countryside, yet while ihe possibilities of escaping from the is land were remote, some one, whose business it was to know, could al ways account for him. He was ol'+en seen driving out accompanied uy his favorite wife and Prince Wanilo. Once each month he appeared at the gov ernor's to receive the allowance made him by the French government. He always appeared in public attired in his kingly robes and invariably smok ing a cigar in a very long pipe. The government allowed him a house, too, where he and his family lived peacefully, sadly and always with with longing for his former do- KING BEHAMZIN AND TWO OF HIS WIVES. minions. He made many requests to be returned to Dahomey, and his exsome iled condition moved many people to tor him. The local popu lation sympathized with him, officials pleaded his cause, and for years polit ical journals of the colony have teemed with editorials bewailing his sad position. Finally the minister for charming in Martinique. Whe he was brought here after the end of that memorable campaign in West Africa when his warriors cut up whole com panies, of the French soldiery he was confined for a* time in the old Fort St Louis. It was thought he would be more reconciled if given more liberty, so he was allowed much freedom. During the volcanic disturbance of Mount Pelee, in 1902, he was very rest less, and hid* discontent was marked during the recent seismic movements. Anything served as an excuse to askthe to be sent back to his country. Of the thousands of tourists who OBJECTED TO Young OGLING." Woman Shopper Didn't Enow About the Store Detectives. A young woman, member 6f a well known New York family, went shop ping and stopped in a big department store to select a gold brooch, states tne ry she observed a fashionably-attired young man "making eyes" at her, a least she thought he was. She finally Showing the devastation caused by the recent calaiitft^ t*-&H^rijj0ift*^ijffifj &$*$& many families made their homes in street cars, glad even ^this^^mbrary/shelter-riRVi- Defective Page fr PRINCELY PALACES OF THE NEW QUEEN OF SPAIN. After Her Marriage to King Alfonso She Will Find Herself Mistress of Half a Dozen Magnificent "Homes." When in June the English princess, Ena of Battenberg, becomes the wife of King Alfonso and entitled to the title of queen of Spain, she will find herself mistress of at least half a dozen magnificent castles and palaces in Spain. First of all there is the splendid royal palace at Madrid, a great pile similar to Versailles, built by Philip V. It is a massive building some 500 feet square and its most striking fea ture is a magnificent marble staircase. Some distance outside of the capital is the ancient palace of Escurial, ir reverently known as the gridiron on account of its curious shape. It uas rooms and corridors totaling 120 miles in length. At Aranjeuz there is a brighter and more pleasant dwelling place, much more often visited by the Spanish court, while near San Ilde fonso is the palace of La Granja. Then King Alfonso has a delightful shooting box at El Fardo and a beau tiful seaside home, the Miramar pal ace, at San Sebastian. Among the rules which Princess Ena is likely to find somewhat irk is one requiring that the queen shall retire at ten o'clock in summer and half-past eight in the winter. Should the king wish to visit the queen's apartments after dark he must wear slippers over his shoes, have a black mantle thrown over his^ shoulders and a shield over his arm, the colonies compromised and consent-1 He must also carry a lantern and a tina was shown id the ministrV o* ed to his transfer to Algeria. long sword and go unaccompanied. I marine, but that building is not at Behanzin never liked any of the Two guards whose service begins at! the moment in ver'y good condition features which other people find so 11 o'clock pass the night in the ante ~dJ ^r^y:*^^i^w ALGERIA came to Martinique |nany, were ml*e* anxious to see B'ehhl.hzin arid, hobnob' with royalty than to,look upon the EM'S FIE CASTLES many scenes of bea^ kid" interest -Wanilo 'in iaie years* was always wes- for which the island $ ius%|l|!eleV brated. He was indeed a roy#exileI The exiled king returns $0 Africa^ but not to his own1countryX%ft A!-' geria he will still h,.an involuntary/ exile. People here will now be more interested in the voluntaryVjeilles^ Uyf whom there are a number, such as former President Simons? Sam, t*f, Lafontant, former miniated of finance, and several 'deputies^j^d, gei^f all of whom*bav& been eon^ demned to death by default in th Haytian republic and af feei^ Wa$fe ing the passing of President,Nord be^ room these guards take charge of the ish court all the articles of the trous- key and give it up to no one until the seau are exhibited down even to -the next morning, when it is delivered to the grand master of the palace after king has arisen. Perhaps the most trying feature of the life at court so far as the queen became so embarrassed that she sud denly decided not to buy the brooch, but started off to look at the bargains in shirt waists. To her surprise she was followed by the young man, who seemed persistent In his flirtation, so much so that she left the store without making a single purchase. "Itfs downright shameful," she exwhen claimed that night at the dinner table, "when a gifi can't even shop in New York without being ogled by a man." A few days afterward she happened to visit the same store with a friend, 0r#jjfc will,be |MAJfeJ^JttiiJbPi,41ieJ Black .republic^ Ws^m^s^i Beb^n^nsspn Prl&cf Wanl&, is an j|ljln$r$tron.of vi&at education can 46 lpj's man. Educated in, ^he common $tah aftd tjhe^Lyc^rpf^Slarianiqu^ ^hcinared favorably^with fcfe,btyck anoMsrhite^enow student* injhle s$ud ami'tnte in A county where the standard, of education 1st very* high. hia dethrpled father ahd transMfat$ *najve tongue ^into bea,utIfuV'F^clit 33ff Benanzin's three wives one is,* his JJivesri^tof^otirse^ithe jrouugest. his favoritism is indicated. by^er%con- ^staut'presence at his side, and she ^lf always seen holding an umbrella over herega spoused She'sno^s her de- Hvotio^-alsOj^by/Zhalding *ofr film a small ,glas8 d|sh 9Hke**st( ganger/ bowl, m.it lull j$.taj ^always ready $ anc& asefas a smoker inijjht^aYe^Coi 'a vessel o&i^Kh^&JsP&jLij, is concerned is the extreme lack of privacy. At one time even her remanhole, ligious confessions had to be made in the presence of the king and, although this restriction has now been done away with, still the minutest detail of the day's proceedings is mapped out in advance. It is said that the queen mother seldom has more than ten minutes at her disposal during the course of the day. In accordance with the custom of the Spanish court, the royal trousseau will be exhibited for the inspection of the public. This, however, will not take place in the loyal palace, which is the residence of the bridegroom elect. It has not yet been decided where the display will be made, cer- EXERCISE GARDEN IN PALACE. tain buildings in the vicinity of the palace being under consideration, such is the ministry of marine, the senate or thtrousseaeu palac offthQueen Tn chamber to the queen's room. The king himself has a nocturnal guard. It consists of six gentlemen of the city of Espinosa. They wear a cu rious uniform comprising a blue jer kin, short braided trousers, silk stock ings and a sort of a silver trimmed opera hat. Each carries a fine Toledo sword. When the king retires to hisAccording council of state. Mari a Cris an it would not be strange if an other building would be chosen. The senate adjoins the marine 'ministry and its salons are very large. If the cortes are closed the government will decide in favor of the senate building, as it offers innumerable advantages for such a show, not the least being the absence of steps to its approach. to the usage of the Span- most intimate details of household linen, the dresses on lay figures and the jewelry and other articles in glass cases, the whole being under the care of the halberdiers. and to her surprise she observed the same young man. She nudged her friend. "There's the grace," she whispered "That's the store detective," replied her companion. "He wasn't flirting with you. He thought you were a shoplifter. No wonder he followed you you didn't buy anything." young scape- -^____________ Poor King. When socialism aims at the break ing up of the home it is very un social. mm^&^r*g- one corner the whole so covered and fitted with cement ,that no insect or ^^B^canfeafelK ejgeept through DEEP WELL, FILTER FOR COOL WATER. filth which comes from the roof, pre venting the necessity for frequent cleaning. The leader from the roof enters at one end, and the waste passes from the other end. A channel is made of five-inch tiles across the bottom, beginning about three feet from where the entering water strikes the bottom, and thence by a brick flue against the side, four by six inches, to the overflow channel at top, which has a sharp descent through tiles, terminating in a four inch galvanized pipe, with a self-act ing valve at the bottom, which is closed when no water is running, thus excluding vermin. The whole chan nel inside the cistern is well ce mented. Another plan suggested by Rural Affairs, is shown in the smaller illus tration. The cistern for holding the filtered drinking water is 24 feet deep, and the water it contains is as cold as in a well of this depth. It is arched with brick over theSltop, the arch *W#^4^ J^ffflfc will a* mauhojefjft %aste pipe is required. The owner ONll^fcYPE CF CISTERN WlTHfFjIiTE: ~(a,xa, ^g^ipr GSv^j^Man-hole^c Vertical ShaftfOTrnterrffi^Eiyet^ow statodng six feetf beIo^ the^surface*. iTne^eistern which receives the water ronffthe roof is seven feet dtep, and ?$| Js^plaj&ed at the side of the deeper one, with, a pipe-tile connecting them. The filter is made of two' walls of brick on e^tge,* -enclosing two inches of charcoal, the whole in a curve, with about ten square feet of surface. The water passes freejy through the brick. The ^washings of the -roof and all fvParni ^rains are turned off, and no WM0R ft .*.!?**%_ mmWmWwz^ t&Plh&M^frto&t:^^^ggtoroar^tg&g^brfcks* etaly*ftji lhe'aiuur'at*Wpr eenmented at the edges covers the and this is surrounded with a brick wall a foot high and covered with another flagstone, made air-tight with cement. This leaves a foot of confined air and excludes frost. This is covered with a foot of earth, and turfted, and the whole cistern covered with earth. The filter in this cistern is a verti cal hollow cylinder, of brick, two feet inside diameter, laid in hydraulic ce ment, and extending from the con crete bottom to the top covering, with an air-hole an inch in cKameter, to al low the air to escape a's the cylinder fills with water. The bricks used are good weather bricks, such 'as would be used for the top of a chimney. The circular form resists like an arch any sudden pressure of water against the outside. The water soaking through the four inches of brick is so well fil tered that it answers perfectly the in tended use The overflow from the cistern is made so as to give an escape for the employs, a xshaitf^pttm^-lrhich TreepK |M Water stirreCanJplastered thee* *hjent on1 the smo&ik trceV^f-tto earl* A Dummy Waiter for the Well Where a deep, cool well is located near the house an arrangement such as shown herewith will serve the purpose of a re frigerator. Con struct a frame of strong boards with a groove in which a board on the side of the box of shelves can run. Attach a rope to the top of the box of shelves, pass it over a wheel on the crank shaft and balance with a counter weight. If the frame is 16 feet long and extended down near to the sur face of the water the lowest temperature may be se cured. A nice looking top may be constructed for the arrangement, as shown in the small cut, with a door opening into the shelves when they are drawn to the top. Most wells, says the Farm and Home, are almost as cool as a refrigerator, and this sort of an arrangement serves the purpose with a great deal less ex pense. A wire clothes line will serve as a cable. Any old pieces of iron will do for the counter weight, and it is well to have a ratchet wheel such as are found on old chain pumps to prevent the elevator dropping when it is well filled Make as many parts as possi ble of wood to prevent rusting. My elevator is 42 inches high and 18* inches square. COW TAIL RESxRAINER.One of the most unpleasant features of milking is the switching of the cow's tail. With many cows this is a trou ble, both winter and summer. A single circle of heavy rope laid over the rump helps somewhat but a persistent cow will soon free her tail. A double rope, kept apart by a bit of a stick on either side, as shown in the cut, will secure ly hold the tail. The two ropes should be tied togetuer where they pass over the back.Farm Journal. ORANGE BOX NESTS. Orange boxes can be util ized for pigeon .nests. The illus tration from Farm Journal shows how to arrange them. Each box affords two nesfc, which would be what a pair of birds would reauire. ***j^ MM