1920 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



419 



through the ice cream parlors. A 

 honey sundae makes a delightful 

 dish, and once eaten, the customer 

 will call for it again. Beekeepers 

 can well afford to furnish placards 

 reading as follows: 



"TRY A HONEY SUNDAE" 

 and give some special inducement in 

 the way of price to start with, 

 in order to induce the soft drink es- 

 tablishment to place it on sale. In a 

 few places, honey with ice cream has 

 come into use and has proved very 

 popular. Should such a use become 

 general it would increase the market 

 for honey to an enormous e.xtent. 



MEXICO BEEKEEPERS AT 

 DALLAS 



Pledges were given for the co-op- 

 erative introduction of American 

 beekeeping appliances; into Mexico 

 and the international marketing of 

 honeys from both Mexico and the 

 United States, as a feature of "Inter- 

 national Day" at the Texas State 

 Fair at Dallas, Saturday, October 16. 

 The beekeepers of the United States 

 were represented at the reception of 

 Mexican officials and beekeepers by 

 Kennith Hawkins, of the G. B. Lewis 

 Company, and E. G. LeStourgeon, of 

 the Texas Honey Producers' Asso- 

 ciation, of San Antonio. 



The Mexican beekeepers were rep- 

 resented by Enrique Veraja Rubio, 

 Assistant Secretary of the Republic 

 of Mexico, and Governor Lie. Al- 

 fonso M. Basaldria, of the State of 

 Queretaro, who also spoke for Guil- 

 lermo Brondo, in charge of bee cul- 

 ture investigations at Mexico City, 

 who could not be present. Mr. Le 

 Stourgeon addressed the Mexican 

 delegation in their own language and 

 extended the felicitations of Ameri- 

 can beekeepers. 



As a result of the conferences 

 which followed between officials and 

 business men from the sister repub- 

 lic, arrangements have already been 

 made for the co-operative marketing 

 of Mexican and American honeys 

 and the importation into Mexico in 

 quantities of American made bee 

 supplies. 



Beekeeping in Me.xico is receiving 

 the attention of agricultural officials, 

 and the government is issuing litera- 

 ture and carrying on extensive ex- 

 periments at the apiaries of the Re- 

 public and in several States. Bee- 

 keeping appliances and samples of 

 honey formed a part of the 1700 sep- 

 arate articles exhibited at the Dallas 

 International Fair, which were 

 brought from Mexico City by the 

 Government at the expense and cour- 

 tesy of our sister Republic. Among 

 several of the business men who at- 

 tended the conference were those 

 who are actively engaged in commer- 

 cial beekeeping and the introduction 

 of better methods for honej' produc- 

 ers into Mexico. 



pipe alongside the hives that a new 

 minister came to their parish and 

 started beekeeping. When visiting 

 the old Yorkshire man, the minister 

 was informed that his bees were rob- 

 bing the hives of his host. "Robbing, 

 my bees robbing? Never; they 

 wouldn't do such a thing." "But 

 wouldn't they?" said the old man, "I'll 

 show you, then." He thereupon called 

 "young" Amos, who himself was 40 

 years old, and told him to take a flour 

 dredger to t'parson's and dredge t' 

 bees as they came out of their hives. 

 Surely enough, in a few minutes came 

 many floured bees intent en securing 

 cheap honey. Of course the minister 

 was very much surprised and pained 

 to find that he harbored thieves at 

 the vicarage. — W. S. Turner, in The 

 Bee World for August. 



SUGAR SUBSTITUTE MADE AT 

 HOME 



We who keep bees may well count 

 ourselves lucky in these days of su- 

 gar shortage. 



We needn't have that guilty feeling 

 when we are satisfying that "sweet- 

 tooth" longing. The following is a 

 most delicious confection, made with- 

 out white sugar : 



Ma' Honey Penoche 



1 cup honey, 3 cups brown sugar, 54 



cup of top milk, 2 tablespoons butter 

 or nut butter (nucoa), 1 cup chopped 

 nut meats. Boil honey, sugar and 

 milk to the soft ball stage; add butter 

 and boil one minute longer. Put the 

 pan in cold water; when partly 

 cooled, beat until creamy. Add nuts 

 when it begins to harden. 



We may use honey for sweetening 

 ice creani, custards and all puddings. 

 In any recipe requiring baking pow- 

 der, a pinch of soda should be added 

 to neutralize the acid contained in 

 the honey, otherwise we unbalance 

 the sodium and acid ingredients of 

 the baking powder, thereby render- 

 ing the cake, etc., heavy. Then, too, 

 one should use one-fourth less wet- 

 ting and rather scant measure of 

 honey. Our little folks are much 

 better off when fed honey sweets, as it 

 is much more easily digested than 

 sugar, and contains materials for the 

 building of their little bodies. 



They love tapioca pudding made by 

 soaking J4 cup pearl tapioca in 3 cups 

 of water over night. In the morning 

 pour off and add 2 cups boiling water. 

 Cook until transparent, add pinch of 

 salt, J4 cup f honey, Yi cup any tart 

 jellv. Serve plain or with cream. 

 MRS. G. C. COFFIN, 



Seattle, Wash. 



BEEKEEPERS BY THE WAY 



THE MINISTER'S BEES 



Once when visiting an old bee- 

 keeper of 70 odd years in the York- 

 shire East Riding, he told me over a 



Atkins of U. S. A. 



E. M. Atkins is a much traveled 

 bee-man. As a young man he left 

 England and started life as a farm 

 hand in Ontario. There was a good- 

 sized apiary as part of the farm 

 equipment and Atkins soon became 

 interested. He then studied bee- 

 keeping at the Ontario Agricultural 

 College under Morley Pettit. Next 

 we find him as assistant to the Do- 

 minion Apiarist on the Government 

 Farms at Ottawa. It is a long jump 

 from Ottawa to Iowa, but soon At- 

 kins is found busily at work as re- 

 search assistant at the Iowa Agricul- 

 tural College. 



Phillips always has an eye open 

 for good men, and it was not long un- 

 til he picked on Atkins for a mem- 

 ber of his extension force, with the 

 four States of Iowa, Missouri, Kan- 

 sas and Nebraska as his territory. 

 After spending some time in this 

 field, inducements were offered by 

 the Iowa institution to have Atkins 

 work in that State exclusively. For 

 the past two years he has traveled 

 back and forth over Iowa, until he 

 knows pretty nearly every flag sta- 

 tion in the State. His apiary demon- 

 strations have attracted much favor- 

 able attention. In several backward 

 communities Atkins has' takefi over 

 a portion of the apiary to run ac- 

 cording to approved methods, while 

 the balance is conducted by the 

 owner as usual. The results have 

 been so striking that great improve- 

 ment in the beekeeping in these lo- 

 calities is bound to result. 



On November 1, Atkins left Iowa 



to become extension agent for the 

 G. B. Lewis Company. His field will 

 now be the whole United States, 

 with headquarters at Watertown. 

 When beekeepers need a practical 

 man for a place on their program, 

 they will do well to write to Water- 

 town and ask that Atkins- be sent. 



E. M. Atkins 



