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a hive of bees at the Experimen-

/yw. A. BURNS, apiarist, and 11.!‘ 1 F C 3 arm harlottetown. Bee-

"3; 1vlacLaren, cerialist, examine

[keeping has been found to result in greatly increased crop yields.

E.I. Breeding Unit Thirteen Clubs

’q-is Prince Edward Island Ar- tificial Breeding’ Association is the central organization repres- mﬁgg the Artificial Breeding Glilbs here in the Province. It is

Mhposed of proportional repres- éntation from each of the thir- Artificial Breeding Clubs. “Is_‘}ach Club has two delegates Soothe first one hundred mem- bers and then one delegate for each additional one hundred mem bers or part thereof. , I The main purpose of this As- sociation is to develop and pro- mote bhe Artificial Breeding in Prince Edward Island. The sel- ectionof the Sire Committees is one of the main tasks of the or- ganization. It also strives con - stantly to maintain high stand ards in the breeding programe. The President is Smith Mac- Farlane, Harrington; Vice-Presi- dent, Ralph Adams’, O’Leary; The County Representatives “are Prince, Earl Clark, Kensington: Queens, Wilfred Furness, Vernon and Kings, Harold Annear, Lower Montague. The Secretary-treasuiw or is Dr. George C. Fisher. ~ The annual meeting of the as- sociation will be held this year on Monday the 23rd of June in Charlottetown. The special Speak- 'ér for the occassion will be the Veterinary Director General of the Health of Animals Division, Production Service, Canada De- partment of Agriculture, Dr. K. F. Wells. _ W * The number of cattle- bred ar- tificially in each Club, during the to receive service that day. first four months of this year has When you have your first cow shown a marked increase over bred you can .pay your member- Ilie previous year. In 1957 over ship fee either on an annual or

. life membership basis. The ser- Holstein Call

vice fee is $4.00 which entitles ‘Eats Odd Meal

you to three services if required. LOCATIONS‘ SERVED The location of the Insemina- ' A Holstein calf owned by Rob- ert Brown of Paris has develop- ed odd eating habits. Somehow

tors are as follows: Western

Prince Artificial Breeding Club, the calf got out of its pen one night, and in the monning Bob

R-aeburn Oliver, Albert-on, Tele- dound that his milk sheet on

phone 80-32; O’Leary and Dis-

trict Club, Winfred Bridges, O’- _WVhlC‘h was written the production .of the herd of twenty milking

Leary: Telephone 56; Tyne Val- ‘covws for the past montlh had dis-

ley and District Club, Russell Dy- Tellpeered, presunnébly swallowed

IWGIIIY Per cent of the breeding, females in the Province were bred artificially. ’

A total of 11,647 cattle were bred. The heaviest breeding months are June, July and Aug- ust as will be borne out by the figures listed below.’The figures in the brackets in the first three months represents the number of cows bred in 1958. When we use the term cows bred we refer to first services only. January 186 (367), February 216 )360), March 307 (509), April 409, May 617, June, 2485, July 3395, August 2169, September 1016, October 264, November 281, December 302. ' ONE THIRD OF COWS .

The early indications would in- timate that over fifteen thousand cows will be artificially bred in Prince Edward Island during 1958. If such is the case it will represent approximately one third of the breeding females in the Province. 7

Frequently the question is ask- ed by those who have not availed themselves of this service “How can I become a Member”? The Artificial Breeding Programme is open to any cattle owner in the Province of Prince Edward Is- land. All that is necessary to pay an annual membership fee of $100 or if you so wish to take out a life, membership fee of $5.00.

If you have a cow you wish to breed artificially and want to be- come a member of the Club sim- ply phone your Imseminator be- fore ten o’clock in the morning

2700; Kensington and District Club, Jim Heffell, Travellers Rest Telephone Sumzmerside 7981; Cra- paud and Di-strict Club, Lyman Harvey, Telephone 7-3; New Glas- gow and District Club, Charles Carr, Telephone Hunter River 22- 22; C-ornwall and District Club, Charles Lank, Telephone Char- lottetown 7576; York and Dis - trict Club, Lloyd Vessey, Tele- phone Charlottetown 7075; Hills- boro and Distri-ct Club, Gord-on Sheidow, Cherry Valley, Tele — phone Vernon River 11-110; Mon- tague and. District Club, Lloyd MacKinnon, Montague, 180-14; Morell and District Club, Garth Webster, Telephone Morell 17-2; Eastern Kings County Artificial Breeding Club, Joseph Mallard, Telephonesouris 100.

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BEE CAGES aid the Experi-

(1) That there are three casts‘ or kinds of individuals in a beeI

hive. ’l‘he queen. the worker and

the drone. The queen is the only perfect female, the workers are really females that have been structurally modified so that phy- siologically they are incapable of normal reproduction. The drones are the male bees of the. hive.

(2) That a good colony con - sists of from 70,000 to 75,000 bees, which is approximately 15 pounds.

(3) That a queen bee may lay between 2,000 and 3,000 eggs per day during the building up per- iod. The weight of the eggs laid in a day often exceeds t-he weight of the queen’: body.

(4) That the average life of a worker bee during the working season is hbout six weeks. Three weeks of this time is spent on work within the hive and three weeks as a field bee gathering nectar‘ and pollen.

(5) That a worker bee gathers in its entire life .0288 of an ounce of honey. It requires about 556 worker bees to gather a full pound of honey. The bees would fly approximately 35,584 miles or more than once around the Ivorld in doing this work.

(6) That the value of honey bees in pollinating fruits, vege

Farm Windmill On Way Out I

The windmill, in its North: American manifestation, is no? thing of beauty. A bare, squarev stel skeleton carries a galvan- ized iron whel,‘» and a rod works up and down to pump water, in the usual form of this machine.

A windmill in full working or- der is on its way to becoming

‘Queen Bee Rated Perfect Female

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Form Club Is Formed In 1868

V “At a meeting of a number ofi farmers from various sections of , I Queen's County, held February 6, many times the value of the hon- (1358, at the North American ;H0_ ey produced. Natural Dollinatingi tel, a society was formed named insects are disappearing raipidlyithe Farmers’ Club, the object of and each year We will be more,whicIh is the diffusion of prac- and more dependent On the hon-Itical and sceintiific knowledge on

tables and legumes is many,

ey bee for many of our daily foods. ‘

(7) That ‘honey is one of the safest foods. Most harmful germs cannot live in honey for any length of time.

(8) ‘That honey has long been recognized as a true cosmetic. It is an ingredient of many fine creams and lotions today.

Honey is unique, in that it is the only natural unmanufactured sweet which can be obtained in large quantities. Honey is a quick energy food, non-fattenin-g,which is contrary to belief. Honey is Natures OLDEIST SWEET, it stands SUPREMIE.

the subject of Agriculture.

secretary. Several

ensuing year: “President: J.T. Jenkins, Esq., M.P.P.

Esq., Royalty; C. Kennedy, Esq. Brackley Point Road; W. Swabey Esq. Royalty.

“Secretary: Arch McNeill.

PACKAGED b,ees as received have found it more profitable to in the spring from southern pro- purchase packaged bees each ducers. Very few bees are over- spring. wiiitered in P. E. I. Beekeepers

a rare sight, although here are plenty of the abandoned towers scattered around.‘ The windmill still is a reasonable convenient way to get power.

The gasoline engine and the elecbhicm otor are more conve- nient and always ready to work. Their advantages outweighed the che‘apness of wind power. Con- veniencea nd dependability were worth the difference, so when the old windmills wore out they were

mental Farm to study the effectcumbers

not replaced.

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Guardian - Patriot -- Tuesday: May 20, 1958,ﬂge 17B

“Alex. Robertson, Esq., St. Pe- ter’s Road, was called to the chair, and A. McNeill, Charlotte- town, was appointed to act as resolutions were submitted and adopted for the goivernmenit of the society, and the following gentlemen were appointed office bearers forthe

“Vice Presidents: H. Longworth

“The following were appointed a committee, with power to addl to their number: Messrs. Alex. Robertson, St. Peter‘s Road; ls- aac Henderson, Brackley Point Road; Angus Martin, Brackley Point Road; Alexander Scott, dp; David Mutch, Rustico, Murdoch McLeod, West River; James Dix- on, Clyde River; Duncan Ken- nedy, Brackley Point Road." I

Taken from t-he Islander, Feb 7, 1868. .

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The game checkers is thought Residence 26.3 ' Montague,P.E.I to have been played many cen- “ ,',«. . It-umies ago, since checker set-s ' have been found tombs of the

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of bees on the pollinait-ion of cu-

ment, Northern, Telephone Tyne Valley 14-120; Eastern Prince cou- nty Artificial Breeding Club, Ken by the calf. ’llhe calf suffered no ill effects, but Bob felt sick when he fouind

Walker, Summerside, Telephone that the official Record of Per-

certifinates covering the yearly production of his cows would have to be issued with the missing weights not lnIclIuIded. Iiiuwever, «syImIpIaIih-etic ROIP oI6fi- cials at Ottawa arsraii-ged to issue the records on a Plan B or Herd , Test basis, which meant tliiiat the mil-k weights for the missing. monthewere computed from the we1§ht recorded by the ROIP in- Gllecilor on his one day visit to the bend.

Start Tractor The Right Way

The cranking of a tractor is '38 of the most frequent causes 0* tractor mishaps. 'I‘Ih'1s hazard is being reduced slightly by the Incﬁeased number of tractors _°‘I“1Dped with electric starters, but the danger still exists. °bT'he following rules should be mffwed when starting any mo-

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~be2f-“Put the tractor out of gear equi e starting, even‘ If it is T .SPl_3ed with an electric starter. caumis an important safety pre- when Itlhfor that occasional time : ed to e tractor must be brank- start mjmlilseggage the clutch before - ,S0 dicreesides being safer, this starting m(E)1tsOe:rs the load on the tin; thruaxslp any engine crank with get not 8 against the first ﬂin- . I-spin” bléliround the crank. Never ‘luick updlaeaank’ but ’.‘=‘“‘°r use gjne Starts‘? Pulls until the en-

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an titled seed named Mac- e‘ é“'0WI1 at the Cressy re- farm.

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