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G I. K AKIN S T i\ V, K K C V \, T C R E 



for the imrt'liaso price of the lioiiey, but 

 the total profit should not exceed io per 

 cent of his investment in the transaction. 



Let beekeepers form themselves into a 

 vigilance committee for the prevention of 

 honey speculation in 1918. If there are 

 crooks in the iioney business, such watchful- 

 ness should bring them to light. 



We are ready to take our part in bringing 

 the cu]]n-its to terms, and would be glad to 

 know of all cases of honey profiteering that 

 come to the knowledge of beekeepers any- 

 where. Such knowledge must come of prov- 

 able facts. 



If any of our advertisers are exacting 

 unjust profits, they will be denied space in 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture, on the receipt of 

 proper proof. 



MANY A SMALL beekeeper and many a 

 beginner in beekeeping does not feel war- 

 ranted in making 

 Here's a Way an investment in a 

 to Help. honey extractor. 



Not only is the cost 

 considerable, but the small beekeeper may 

 have so little work for an extractor that it 

 cannot be made to "pay its way." Yet it 

 is a necessity for any beekeeper producing 

 extracted honey. 



Here is a chance for all you beekeepers 

 owning extractors to help the "little fel- 

 low" — just as many of you are doing. Do 

 his extracting for him — and tell liim you 

 will do it for him. You can afford to do this 

 (at present high prices) for about two cents 

 a pound. Lend a hand in these days of food 

 scarcity by helping "the other fellow" who 

 may not be so well equipped as you are. 



This need of many a small beekeeper 

 points out the advantages that might be de- 

 rived from better local organization of bee- 

 keepers. Where there are local organiza- 

 tions, it is a simple matter to have all ex- 

 tractors owned by members of the organiza- 

 tions listed, and the names and addresses of 

 all owners of extractors willing to extract 

 for others made known to those needing 

 such services. 



Burton N. Gates, head of the apieultural 

 department of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, in a circular sent out to the 

 beekeepers of his State, makes a timely ap- 

 peal to those owning extractors as follows: 

 Have you an extractor which is not listed in this 

 office? if so, are you -svillins to help your neishhor 

 beekeepers? This office has a ejreat many extractors 

 listed, the use of which is offered nearby beekeepers 

 who have none. An asireement blank will be sent 

 those who wish to list their eJitractors. Inquiry for 

 the service of an extractor may be addressed to this 

 office. Your local ascent in beekeepins will be able 

 to help you. 



This is a kind of practical help that a 

 state department of apiculture may render 

 its beekeepers everywhere — but more ef- 

 fectively where there are local beekeepers' 

 organizations and county agricultural 

 agents. 



The beekeeper owning an extractor can 



help hx-al beekeepers not owning one, in 

 just the same way— if he will — whether 

 there is a local beekeepers' organization or 

 not and whetlier a state department of api- 

 culture is helping or not. IIow? By just 

 telling his neighbor beekeepers who haven 't 

 an extractor that he will do their extracting 

 for them, if they wish him to do it. 



It's a neighborly and helpful kindness to 

 do this — especially in these war times when 

 the prices of equipment are high and when 

 every encouragement should be given to pro- 

 ducing every pound of honey possible. 



,Cif: 



IT IS A well recognized fact that the more 

 alcohol a nation uses, the less sugar it re- 

 quires. Now that 



Where We 



Get the Sweets 



We Eat. 



the consumption of 

 alcohol in the Unit- 

 ed States is de- 

 creasing (and the 

 probability is great that soon there will be 

 almost no alcohol used as a beverage), it is 

 well for those interested in the production 

 of any form of sugar to study the situation. 

 From a purely selfish point of view, bee- 

 keepers ought to be anxious that the pro- 

 hibition amendment shall pass. But this 

 is not an article on-temperance. It is barely 

 possible, however, that in getting rid of 

 one bad habit we may be taking on another. 

 It cannot be expected that sugar will fill 

 jails or asylums, but it may fill graveyards, 

 unless the American people have care in 

 their diet. The editors propose in two edi- 

 torials to outline the facts regarding sugar 

 in the diet of the American people in order 

 that beekeepers may know where they stand 

 on this important question. 



The first lot of sugars that we eat belong 

 in the class which we must regard as not 

 fully helpful. Cane and beet sugar lead all 

 the others in amount in the diet of Ameri- 

 cans. We produce in the United States 

 about five per cent of the sugar of the world; 

 and the island possessions, Porto Eico and 

 HaAvaii, add another five per cent to the 

 world 's supply. But what wc produce is but 

 a small part of what we eat, for we import 

 enough so that, when sugar is plentiful, we 

 use about 90 pounds per capita. Directly 

 after the Civil War the per capita consump- 

 tion of sugar was only about one-third of 

 this (but we used more alcohol), and the 

 rate of sugar consumption has been on the 

 increase ever since. Eefined sugar is about 

 as dead a food as one can well imagine. That 

 it has food value we would not deny, and it 

 has the advantage that, when it can be di- 

 gested, it gives up its energy quickly. It 

 serves no purpose other than the giving of 

 energy quickly. The process of refining re- 

 moves from sugar all mineral matter and 

 all of the partially evolved sugar. That 

 the human machine needs mineral salts is 

 well known, and that we can digest the 

 gums and similar matter found in raw sugar 

 i^ ecjually recognized. However these are all 

 removed, and in refined sugar we get simply 



