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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1946
Page
6
Beekeeping guidance notes that fall honey may be difficult for bees to digest in winter. A 10 pound colony needs about 60 pounds of honey and 4 5 combs of pollen annually. Feed sugar syrup after fall honey flow ends, monitor rations, and provide soybean flour on top of frames if pollen runs short. Place a sugar syrup can in each hive when housing new bees or honey is scarce.
Flea beetles over winter as adults under leaves and in waste areas near gardens and fences. Begin control now by removing weeds and trash that harbor them and using calcium arsenate, arsenate of lead, lime dust, rotenone, or pyrethrum dust as sprays or dusts.
Rhode Island station experiments show dry ice used in pest storage rooms to kill rats and mice. Twenty percent carbon dioxide from 25 pounds per 1600 cubic feet, distributed by electric fans, suffices to eliminate pests.
2 4 D is known to kill a wide range of weeds including buckhorn burdock chicory cocklebur dandelion dog fennel elderberry fanweed ground ivy lambsquarters legumes locust morning glory nettles pepper grass pigweed plantain ragweed sow thistle sumac sunflower wild top wild buckwheat wild carrot wild radish yellow rocket yellow trefoil and Austrian cress. Others are added daily.
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