November, 1918 



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Iowa, ami westiMii Missiiuri, the New Kngland 

 States, and the iiiouiitain region of the South to 

 Tennessee; while in Ohio, Indiana, lUinoiK, and 

 eastern Missouri tho chief hay crop is timothy with- 

 out the clover. It is well known that the last named 

 States are much less valuable as clover-honey States 

 than the States in tin; first named group. Clover is 

 evidently influenced markedly by climate. It ex- 

 tends into central Tennessee, but there the climate 

 is practically the same in summer a.s that of New 

 York State. Clover is also found in Montana, 

 Washington, and northern California, and there are 

 some fine locations for clover honey along the Mis- 

 sissippi River. In the discussion in the atlas there 

 is no mention of white clover alone, but we know 

 tliat where clover grows, the white clover and al- 

 sike are found. On page 120 there is a map pre- 

 senting to view the dairy industry as shown by the 

 receipts from sales. This map might well serve 

 as a map of the commercial beekeeping industry in 

 the United States . Dairying in the West is, of 

 course, dependent on alfalfa, but it, too, is great 

 for beekeeping. If the beekeepers unite with spe- 

 cialist farmers of any other class, it ought to be 

 with the dairymen. 



Sui^ar. — The discussion of sugar in this atlas 

 shows very clearly why there is a shortage of sugar 

 among the allies. The United States produces 5 

 per cent of the world's sugar supply, Cuba 14 per 

 cent, Porto Rico 2 per cent, and the Hawaiian Is- 

 lands 3 per cent. On the other liand, Germany pro- 

 duces 13 per cent, Russia 9 per cent, Austria-Hun- 

 gary 9 per cent, India 14 per cent, Java 8 per cent, 

 all of which we can not get, either because it is 

 on the other side of No Man's Land or because we 

 cannot spare ships to get it. Northern Prance 

 normally produces p'enty of sugar, but this industry 

 has suffered because of the unwelcome visitor. The 

 United State-s, Canada, and the United Kingdom 

 all use over 80 pounds of sugar per capita when it 

 is available; Prance and the Central Empires use 

 from 40 to 50 pounds per capita ; while Russians 

 and the people of India get on with about 20 pounds 

 each. There would be plenty of sugar for all of us 

 in the United States this year, were it not for the 

 fact that we are sharing what we have with the 

 European nations that are fighting with us. We 

 need some to fe,ed our bees, and we cannot well use 

 anything else for them, but if need be we will send 

 all the rest to Europe, if it will do any good in 

 fighting the war. The total production of sugar for 

 the entire world is given as 10,806,000 long tons, 

 while the total population is less than two billions. 

 That indicates that human beings use a great deal of 

 sugar. It is significant that there are presented 

 in this atlas no statistics for honev production. 

 This, we may assume, is not from neglect, for there 

 are no available figures for the honey production of 

 the world. Since sugar production increased with 

 the introduction of trade with the tropics, honey 

 has had to take a back seat; but every np,w fact 

 about the food value of honey that is brought out 

 by investiga'ions shows that we have made a seri- 

 ous mistake in decreasing our consumption of honey 

 and in so greatly increasing the use of cane and 

 1 eet sugar. Perhaps the war will teach ub a lesson 

 in this regard, if we cannot get all the sugar that 

 we might wish. At any rate, the people of the 

 United States will be far better off, if they wi!l in- 

 crease tl'.eir use of honey — and it is the beekeeper's 

 business to see that they do. Tlie beekeepers of 

 the United States will make a great increase in the 

 food supply of the nation, if the season is favorable. 

 They will do it because it will pay them to produce 

 more honey, but there is a bigger reason back of it. 

 The chief reason is that this is the best way that 

 the. beekeepers can help to win the war. 



