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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE ( 



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EDITORIAL 



JSlNCE OUR August issue a nunibiT of our 

 subscribers have written to us, saying that 

 they had made ap- 

 How to Get plication to the U. 



That Sugar S. Food Adminis- 



f or Feeding, tration, Sugar Di- 

 vision, at their 

 State capitals, for permits to secure sugar, 

 but liad received no reply, much less a per- 

 mit. Several in our own State of Ohio 

 wrote, but received no response. 



To clear up the matter the Editor of 

 Gleanings made a special trip to Columbus 

 ou Aug. 20 and there learned that Ohio bee- 

 keepers — in fact, beekeepers in every State 

 in the Union — should tirst go to their local 

 food administrator and ask for blanks 

 marked A and B. Disregard blank A on the 

 sheet and fill out statement B only. Put 

 in your full name and address. Opposite the 

 words "Bee Culture" make a cross-mark in 

 the printed square, certifying your industry. 

 Then fill out items 6 and 8. Item 6 calls 

 for the amount of sugar used from July 1 to 

 Oct. 1, 1917. You may or may not have used 

 any; but if any, state the amount. Item 8 

 calls for the amount of sugar needed up to 

 Oct. 1, 1918. When the blank is so filled 

 out it should be taken before a notary or 

 other official who can administer an oath, 

 and sworn to in the space provided below, 

 after which it is to be sent to the United 

 btates Food Administration, Sugar Divi- 

 .'•■lon, of your State capital. 



Ohio beekeepers, however, should lill out 

 two blanks, and send both to Thos. K. 

 Lewis, U. S. Food Administration, Sugar 

 Division, Columbus, O. The notary will 

 probal)ly chaige no more for two affiilavits 

 than for one. One of these blanks is to be 

 filed by Lewis with the State Bee Inspector 

 of Ohio, E. C. Cotton, Department of Agri- 

 culture, Columbus, and the other with the 

 Sugar Division, Columbus. It would be a 

 wise thing for the beekeepers of other States 

 to furnish two sworn blanks so that one 

 could be filed with the State Bee Inspector 

 or State Apiarist, and the other with the 

 regular Food Administration. 



In some cases the State Food Administra- 

 tion may require that an officer of some l)ee 

 organization i)ass on the validity of the 

 claim of the beekeeper for sugai'. In such 

 case, where it is at all ])racti('al)le, send the 

 blank to tiie secretary or the ])resident, and 

 ask hiiri to mark his O. K. across the blank, 



signing his name as an officer of the bee or- 

 ganization, and return to you, when you are 

 to send it to the U. S. Food Administration, 

 Sugar Division, of your State capital. Most 

 of the States will probably require some- 

 tliing of the sort. Where there is no state 

 or local organization, or when you do not 

 know who the secretary of a local beekeep- 

 ers ' organization is, send your blank to the 

 secretary of the National Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation, Floyd Markham, Y^jsilanti, Mich., 

 who will immediately return it to you pro- 

 vided you inclose a stamp and an addressed 

 envelope. 



The ordinary retail grocer probably will 

 not have enough sugar to take care of bee- 

 keepers ' requirements, and therefore you 

 will have to go to the wholesaler. But be- 

 fore you do it be sure you are armed with 

 the permit as above outlined. 



The beekeeper should anticipate his wants 

 early; and, if he needs sugar, make appli- 

 cation at once as above outlined. 



A STATEMENT made in two leading daily 

 newspapers, to the effect that beekeepers 

 are profiteering, is bas- 

 This Is Not ed on the statement of 

 Profiteering. Dr. Phillips of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, at the 

 field meet at Medina, that any beekeeper 

 who sells all his honey and asks for sugar, 

 where there is no bee disease, is profiteering. 

 One paper, the Cleveland News, has drawn 

 the inference that beekeepers are using 

 sugar to feed bees to sell as honey, and 

 that in so doing they are not only "profi- 

 teering ' ' but are ' ' cheating ' ' their cus- 

 tomers. While we can not agree with Dr. 

 Phillips that the beekeeper is profiteering 

 when he sells honey and feeds sugar, it is 

 but fair to him to say that he is quoted 

 only in part. He never intended to convey 

 the impression that beekeepers are feeding 

 their bees sugar to sell as honey. Gleanings 

 fears that this garbled statement may be 

 scattered far and wide, with the result that 

 beekeepers will be unable to obtain sugar 

 this fall for feeding their bees. .Vecording- 

 ly, beekeepers everywhere should be prompt 

 to refute this untruth. It would be nothing 

 short of a real calamity for the beekeepers 

 not to get the sugar needed, as it would 

 mean a great decrease in the number olr" bees 

 another year and a great shrinka.i,'e in the 

 lioiicy production of 1919. 



