Arizona republican., 1917-02-25

dead except M NJ. Baldridge. At first I was only a scholar, but have added my mite to its columns since. The Golden Italian bees were secured by selection and in-breeding as reported by F. A. Bracott of Boston. The Bee Journal was discontinued during the civil war but was renewed in 1866 with double energy
 The honey extractor was invented by a German who noticed that his lit
 tie boy while swinging his dinner pail rapidly had caused the honey in th comb in his pail to be emptied out oi the cells, that gave hlm the idea Of the centrifugal honey extractor. A found ation press also came into use and was soon replaced by metal rollers to make thin sheets of beeswaX with the base of the cells stamped all of worker size. enabling the bee keeper to control and only raise few drones. The bees will draw out q foundation in q few
 hours ready for the queen to lay eggs, or to be filled with honey. saving time. labor and honey.
 I use low wheeled wagon screened
 in with reversible honey extractor run
 by a gasoline engine: it also runs a
 large fan. making work comfortable.
 The honey runs through q strainer
 into q large tank outside. The un-
 capping has a false bottom with water
 heated by gasoline, melting the cap
 pings. also furnishing steam which is conveyed through a ruber tube through the uncapping knife keeping it always hot. Four of us handle one and quar- ter q l-4) ton or more daily, which is more than seven of us used to. do be- fore using gasoline power. The combs are returned to the bees and used over q Fifty years ago honey from bee trees and log gums was allowed to drain
 through q collender and called strained
 honey. With improved methods it is
 now called extracted honey.
 In five counties of Arizona We have ! A oo0 colonies of bees with a tax valua- { ton more than the poultry or hay 1 industry. The population of the Unit | ed States only use one pound of honey
 each per year. A few years ago | called on several large grocery stores
 at Washington, D. C., to sell then | honey. but they replied that they dIC | not have any calls for it, if they had | they would order it. It is quite 1if- ! ferent here in Arizona, ;he grocery
 stores carry laree stocks of it and con- slider it staple like sugar and flour | know of many customers who eat h v 1 1 sold honey at 9 cents per pound and l butter at eight cents. Now I pay fifty cents for butter and honey sells fol eight to twelve cents. The difference | is this. the dairy industry is thorough l ly organized. while the bee keepers are
 not. While our alfalfa valleys are fully
 stocked with bees there are hundreds
 of locations along the rivers and in thG
 mountains where ariaries would dc
 well from the mequite and desert
 bloom. all of which is now going tO waste. and if used would add hundreds
 of thousands of dollars to our state
 Men who handle few bees are called | bee keepers, while men who handle
 them by the thousand the bees keeI | them
 The bees in gathering honey do not 1 rob the farmer as it would all evapor-
 ate and be lost in few hours if not gathered. In Patheri'' the pollen tc | feed their baby bees they scatter pol | len from bloom to bloom doing the work for the farmer that it would be ! impossible for the farmer to do by l hand. insuring him bountiful seed | crop After 4N- bee has fertiliaed the | fruit bloom she returns at the harvest l dime to save where the hirus work and | other insects have punctured the par ing of the fruit and saves th. dripping | juice. but cannot work on sound fruit | even if placed inside their hives. Il
 s stated that the United States spent | last year one lnd a half billion do'ars i for ice cream and only forty million | for honey. It is time the bee keepers | should wake up and advertise and in-
 crease the demand to ten or twenty | rounds for every pe'son instead ol l oplv DnO