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March 0. 1920 
The Honey Beats the Sugar Trust 
Part I. 
Bees and Orchards. —The editor of 
The K. X.-Y. has been urging farmers to 
plaut more fruit trees, even to the extent 
of 100 on each farm. In the event of a 
considerable number of farmers doing this 
in any one community .the returns will 
not be nearly as large as the expectations 
unless each farmer also adds a few colo¬ 
nies of bees, or some beekeeper gets into 
that community with quite a number of 
colonies. Some persons mistakenly say 
they keep bees, while in reality they do 
not. as the bees keep themselves, and the 
owner only robs them of their hard-earned 
gain. Bees are very essential for the 
proper pollination of the blooms of the 
fruit trees, especially if the blooming sea¬ 
son is rather rainy or unfavorable. 
A Sugar Substitute. —During the re¬ 
cent sugar shortage many of our friends 
rather envied our stock of honey, as we 
could get along very nicely without sugar 
when it was difficult to obtain. Another 
feature is the fact that of all the workers 
in the known world today, these little 
toilers are going on as of yore, asking 
no reduction of working hours uor higher 
pay, to help increase, rather than dimin¬ 
ish. the high cost of living. They work 
cheerfully and contentedly in an old nail 
keg. or any old disgraceful box that may 
be offered them, or even in the hollow log 
that is found in many forests. Honey at 
present, is being offered on the Lancaster 
markets as high as 50c per section, and 
with sugar likely to remain near 20c per 
pound, the future for the man who can in 
this manner gather a small portion of the 
untold tons of nectar that annually 
await bees to harvest it is bright, indeed. 
An Official Authority. —Dr. E. F. 
Philips of the Bureau of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C., is possibly the best 
authority on subjects connected with the 
keeping of bees that there is in the coun¬ 
try today. I had the pleasure of hearing 
him deliver a series of lectures while we 
were in the war, and the Government 
was straining every effort to conserve 
sugar, in which he urged all beekeepers 
to do all they possibly could to increase 
their regular crops of honey. At that 
time all materials, hives, etc., were at a 
premium, and he strongly advocated not 
more beekeepers, hut better beekeepers, or 
better methods pursued by those who al¬ 
ready understood something of the method 
of handling them. These times, happily, 
are somewhat different from that period, 
and with the supply manufacturers being 
able to obtain all needed materials again 
there can be no objections to anyone em¬ 
barking in this fascinating and ofttimes 
profitable pursuit. 
The Militant Bee. —Or is there an 
objection? I thought I heard some one 
remark that there is a rather pointed ob¬ 
jection carried by the bee itself. T also 
know from experience and observation 
that this one almost microscopical ob¬ 
jection will at times drive a strong, boast¬ 
ful man all over a portion of the farm, 
waving his arms like a flail. Such men, 
and women, too. always aver that, the 
bees have a perfect antipathy for them, 
and spot them out long distances away, 
while in reality they are not justified in 
making any such statements. The trouble 
usually is that soon as they get in the 
line of the bees’ flight and one of them 
very innocently flies rather close to them, 
they begin to strike at it. and as a result 
they are stung before they know what 
happened, in spite of the fact that their 
arms were going like a windmill. If you 
get near a beehive, or a bee starts buzz¬ 
ing around your head in an angry man¬ 
ner. do not strike at it, but quietly walk 
away, and you will be surprised at the 
reduction in the number of stings that 
you receive, especially while working 
with them. Never strike at them or 
make any hurried motion that will attract 
their attention. Another thing-, never 
work with them without wearing a good 
bee veil, it does not matter how gentle 
they are. 
The Beginner at Work. —It may he 
all right for me to say to go right at it, 
open up a hive and give them the neces¬ 
sary attention, do it slowly and carefully, 
and vou will likely not he stung, hut you 
are not going to do it ; not at least' as 
long as you can get out of doing it. The 
proper thing for a beginner to do is to 
go to some man who has bees and under¬ 
stands handling them thoroughly, and 
get him to instruct you how to do it. Do 
not simply let him show you how to do 
it, but open up a few hives yourself under 
his guidance; take on the frames, and try 
to find the queen. Doing it yourself is 
the only way you can acquire confidence, 
and it is better to do it in the presence 
of an expert than to try it entirely alone. 
You can usually purchase bees in the 
Spring, either in any old kind of box or 
in a standard modern hive. The beginner 
should only consider the latter equipment, 
and purchase good colonies in the Spring 
from some beekeeper that will warrant 
his stock to be free from either Ameri¬ 
can or European foul brood. This is the 
chief danger in purchasing bees in old 
box hives, and any man who is interested 
in bees in any community should report 
the presence of any box hives that he 
knows of to the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture of his State, especially if in a sec-, 
tion infested with brood diseases. In * 
most States there is an apiary inspector 
who will be very glad to know of any 
menace to the industry. e. j. w. 
