:':"V-'5^rr-^'vpr fx v« *&&***'' \~'J"?- w- *& ',- Ti^ ""^V \y INTERNATIONAL-FALLS PRESS PAGE THREE- WORLD SHORTAGE THE STUBEE mjs BUSINESS IS LIKE MACHINE IN BEET SUGAR CHANGE Sash and Door Factory Crops Are 40 Per Cent. Less Beekeeper Who Knows His Business SUITABLE SHELTER FOR HENS IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Than Pre-War Average—Central Is thoroughly Sure of hhhhhmi "iv Powers Hit Hardest. Success. House of Appropriate Size, With Having purchased the Nests, Roosts and Feeding Appliances We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of Is Needed. Lawrence Pharmacy I wish CANE SUGAR IS ISOLATED. NILLWORK PROPER HOUSE IS IMPORTANT (Prepared by the United States Department to inform my many friends of Agriculture.) and you will make no mistake by getting Allied Beet Production Falls One»third Evfery flock of hens needs a suitable and acquaintances that the shelter—a coop or house of appropriate their prices before ordering elsewhere In Rigid War Economy Greatest Source of Loss Is Death and store will have my persona! size, furnished with roosts, nests Practiced. Weakness of Insects in WinterDisease and appliances for feeding and watering. attention as formerly, when Discourages Many A flock that is to be used for Building and Contracting a Specialty The world today is producing forty Beginners. 1 was the manager and I will breeding should also have a yard where per cent less beet sugar than the prewar All Work Guaranteed the birds can exercise on the ground be pleased to meet and serve average. (From the United States Department of and in the open air. Hens kept only Counting the American, Allied and Agriculture.) you again. for eggs for the table may be confined German-Austrian crops, as well as the The productive colony of bees is like LARS STUBEE, Prop. to their house continuously for as long neutrals, the U. S. Food Administration a good machine in the hands of a good a time as ordinary hens are profitable has estimated that the world mechanic. While energy is consumed layers. It is better to give them an S. N. RUBIN shortage created by the light crop of 2nd Ave. and 6th St. Phone 50 simply to run the machine, a good mechanic outdoor run, but when space is limited 1917-1918 is at least three and a half does the right work at the right it cap be dispensed with. million tons. time and obtains the greatest possible Small, flocks need a. little more floor That the 1917-1918 crop of cane sugar reward in the machine's output. So space per bird than large flocks, and was two million tons in excess of the beekeeper who has made a study birds! copfined constantly to the house the previous year does not relieve the of the business and knows hdw properly general shortage. should have a little more floor space The Provision Store to direct the energies of the bees is Cuba and Java produce one-half of per bird than others. A coop for six sure of winning the greatest success. the world cane crop, and the Java sugar hensi should allow five Or six square Many good beekeepers in the United is too far removed from America to feet of.floor space for .each a house States receive a good living from their transport when shipping is badly needed for t+venty to thirty hens, three or four bees and have incomes equal to that to transport and maintain the military wt tfeet to each. Yards are usu-r*)lanned HESE are serious of a prosperous farmer in other lines forces in France. times, and every to give not less than 20 of agriculture. must In Java a large part of the old sugar one shoulder a r.quaae feet of land per hen. Bees should be properly housed in serious task, but how crop is still awaiting shipment. Since on account of confusion in receiving merchandise the Company Jramll coopS. which can be cleaned efficient would we be if good hives. Swarming should be con It requires 150 to 160 days for each we worked all the time? witiiaut entering them may be built Store will hereafter be known as The Provision Store. trolled, surplus room should be provided boat that is sent to Java, the possibilities only three or four feet high: This Each morning and afternoon at the proper time, and in abun of obtaining adequate shipments at school the children height is most comfortable for the Remember we are Sole Agents for Chase Sanboun's celebrated dance, and adequate protection and of Java sugar this season are remote. recess, are given a 'hens/' Coops for flocks of more than care to prevent losses should be provided to sharpen their coffees and teas and the "Home Brand' goods of all kinds. Allies' Production Falls. 6r Six' eight birds must be of such tired brains and take during the winter. the kinks out of their Taking the Allied nations as a group, We sell the best of goods at lowest prices. height, that a grown person can move Of the major sources of loss of bees cramped little legs. official reports show that beet sugar about in them? In a low coop the same the greatest is the death and weakness production is less by one-third than the Like the boys and girls opening will answer for door and window. of colonies in winter. By starvation we must in school play pre-war average. In high coops with larger wall a little now and then, and exhaustion of vitality the average French beet sugar industry has suffered The Provision Store too, to be able to work winter loss in most localities is fully »most by the war. The French the harder after we are 10 per cent. It is not at all unusual done playing. yield of beet sugar is now only 29.1 for the honey crop to be reduced onehalf per cent, of the pre-war average. That's why we have by poor wintering, yet this coming For the five years preceding the outbreak hunted to the four corners of the earth for winter loss can be reduced readily to of hostilities in Europe, France clean talent of every less than 1 per cent. produced an average of 752,542 tons of kind to amuse you in a A second source of loss is from two sugar each year. For 1917-18 the wholesome manner this year. infectious diseases of the brood of French production was 219,416 tons. bees, European foulbrood and American With 61 factories operating, as compared For recreation and play [-fr of the finest type no foulbrood. Within the past few with more than 200 that were w^rjnyviniY! place compares with the years many of the states have provided in existence before the war and before Minnesota State Fair. for apiary inspection, and in all the general campaign of destructiveness September 2 to 7. but a few states these diseases are sufficiently launched by the German armies. France nevertheless managed to manufacture controlled to permit commercial more beet sugar in 1917-18 beekeepers to conduct their work than in 1916-17, when the total output with virtually full returns. In spite was 202,415 tons. of such success the annual loss of colo- Italy in 1917-18 produced 100,800 A Boy's Backyard poultry House, Built tons of beet sugar, which was 56,000 by Himself. tons less than the previous year and 110,250 less than the annual output of surfaces a full-sized door and. one or sugar for the five year pre-war period. more windows are needed. Roosts are commonly made of small One of the great difficulties experienced scantling or narrow strips of board, in Italy's beet sugar industry about eight or ten inches length of was finding sufficient labor to handle roost being allowed to each fowl. In the crop. Thousands of men usually The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel small, low coops the roosts should be employed in beet sugar production placed about twelve to fifteen inches were called for military service. The 250 MODERN ROOMS THE Located in Heart of Bwrinci District from the floor. In larger coops wide yield per acre amounted to approximately ONE PRICE--ONE DOLLAR boards, to catch the droppings of the half of the usual quantity of boys and girls of CUROPLAN riMetitlt .so RATE FOR TWO birds, are generally used under the be«ts harvested America are directing PRIVATE HTH, SHOWER AND TOILET EXTRA roosts, the droppings board being from COMPLETE SAFETY twenty to thirty inches from the floor AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS one of the mightiest chu­ Lot For Sale on Easy Terms or AND FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION and the roost a fewH inches above the dren's crusades in the very cheap if all cash payment on INSURANCE RECORD* SHOW THAT NEVER droppings board. HAS A LIFE BEEN LOST IN ANT WLLCDLNO Eighth street and, Tenth avenue. Enquire The simplest form of nest is a box PROTECTED NT AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER* history of all time. ff' a little over'a foot square and not less 80S Fifth avenue. EVERT ROOM HA* NOT AND COLD RUNKINQ WATER. STEAM HEAT, ELECTRIC LIQHT AND than five or six inches deep. When TELEPHONE SERVICE. Over 1,000,000 of them i-"A. space is limited the nests should be attached are taking part in corn, to the wall, the bottom of the nest being a foot or more from the potato, poultry, live stock, floor. 1 For flocks of five or six hens two nests are needed for larger flocks baking, canning, and other one nest for each four or five hens. contests, to increase the The feeding utensils required are: Hoppers for dry mash, trough for table world's output erf food of scrap's or moist mash, small hoppers all kinds. tor shell and grit, and drinking Collecting a Swarm of Bees. pans or fountains. For flocks containing You can spur these boys not more than SO birds one of each nies from disease is probably $2,000,000, kind of utensil, il! of appropriate size, and girls to still greater and many beginners in beekeeping is enough. are discouraged by the disease situation. effort by looking over and This source of loss is therefore a FAVOR SPREAD OF DISEASES praising the several large serious one. When a colony becomes populous exhibits of their work, Damp), Poor Ventilated Quarters. Encourage during a good honey flow it normally which is to be one of the Such Ailments as makes preparation to swarm, thus dividing Roup. itself into two colonies. While leading features of the this instinct is advantageous to wild (Prepared by the United States Departmunt Minnesota State Fair, bees, it results in a reduction in tht of Agriculture.) Cold, damp, poorly lighted and ventilated honey crop if the division occurs, as it September 2 to 7. poultry quarters favor the usually does, just before or during the Cl£VClAN3 spread of such diseases as roup. Such time when nectar is especially abundant. contagious diseases as these are difficult Rarely can swarming be entirely Get away from the heat and dust of land. Make a and sometimes impossible to control prevented, even with the best of vacation of your trip East Substitute for ths cramped unless given attention in the early care, but the proper measure of a beekeeper's monotony of rail travel, the comforts and ease of a stages.* Whenever preventative measures skill is his success in reducing cruise. Be free to pace long promenade decks—to fail, separate sick birds from the this activity. A failure to attempt nap, to read, to rest in comfortable cabins—to sleep flock as soon as "there is evidence of this causes untold loss in honey every in spacious staterooms, in wide berths. Eat meals that disease, and then consult expert advice year, and the methods of swarm prevention are famous throughout the Lake Districts for their excellence. to effect^a cure. and control can be understood 3 Exercise, dance, be happy—enjoy the companionship only by careful study and experience. of congenial shipmates. Let the tonic of The proper giving of room for surplus Pope's Income Uncertain. lake air restore your health—arrive at the end of your honey is important in this connection. Stated at the Vatican that outactual It is an unusually good locality journey "fit." side money capital in the in which nectar is abundant all summer papal sury, which is -the accumuny THree Ships Weekly and this room must be given at latioi popes, there is no way just the right time. This necessitates to dei (& the actual income and exthe DtilutH—Ft. William—Pi. Arthur watchful study of the nectar-producing reason that the income Soo—Sarnia—Detroit flowers. It is quite a common practice varies from year to year, according for beekeepers to put. on one The three big modern liners, S. S. Noronic, S. S. to the popularity of the particular "super" for the storage of surplus pope"on~the throne, according to world Hamonic, S. S. Huronic, sail tri-weekly over the honey and to wait until this is entirely prosperityi^and like causes, and that Northern Navigation Route. filled before giving more space.' This ltures must be fixed accorduncertain may buy your ticket over any railroad with the Northern You Copyrighted results in the loss of much honey from income. Navigation Water-link in it. lack of storage space, and often too "V Special boat trains between Winnipeg and Port Arthur-Sarnia much is stored in the part of the hive and Toronto. Direct rail connections east and west at Duluth, which should be devoted to brood rearing. Ft. William, Port Arthur, the Soo, Sarnia and Detroit. Receiver, for Nat Goodwin. The proper placing of room for Duluth to Detroit Cruise surplus honey requires vigilance and York, July 30-.—A receiver for Vote For study, and a failure to provide this the property and effects of Nat Goodwin, —without an equal as a vacation voyage. Everything' included—meals, room on time and in the proper way actor has been appointed in the berth picnic at Kakabcka Falls, dances, afternoon JOHN D. KIBBEY teas, etc. often may reduce the crop to one-third. city court here. Goodwin was described in the papers as "stock promotor,v Special Summer Rates to all. points East. for theatrical manager, moving Write for Cruise Booklet to H. Hurdont Western Agert, Duluth, Ripening Cream. Minn. picture ''star, actor in legitimate By ripening cream the albuminous drama." The recetvershlp is the outcome Northern Navigation Company JUDGE OF PROBATE mutter is rendered more tenacious, of a judgment of $1,696 recently making the churning easier. recovered against Mr. Goodwin in General Election ,Nov. 5 Sarnia, Ontario The "proper ripening of cream has a suits based on notes given in payment Make the Little Xhick'a First Home a loss of fat dead to do with the In srood Cal., for land near Hemet, when For information Ash Your Local Ticket Agent or any American "if1 Comfortable One. :v .Espreem Company Travel Department Office I Ssl Jr JSL -fo s.f v.-f 1 V-* & J?*.'.'- Jife Mr