The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-05-09
BEES WILL HELP
PROVIDE SWEETS
Better Care OF Colonies Is Best
Way to Quicken Supply Of
This Crop.
SUGAR NEEDED TO HELP WAR
Present Stock Of Honey Could BE In.
creased 10 to 20 Times Without
A%ppreeiabIe Increase In
Cost Per Pound,

More honey is needed to help the
sugar ~supply-and needed in 1918. II
Is Imperative, using the language OF
officials OF the United States depart.
ment OF agriculture In a recent publ.
cation. that we increase not only the
sugar crop In the United States, but
every possible supply Of sweets, and
honey Is one of the supplemental
sweets the supply OF which can be en-
larged without great effort. Not only
should those who already keep bees
enlarge the number OF their colonies.
but the industry should also be extend
ed, say federal officials. to localities
where beekeeping has not been tried
on n commercial scale. IL Is important
that efforts be made To make the honey
increase immediate-more honey this
year.
Provides Nutritious Food.
II Is quite possibly for the Ameri-
can Bookkeeping industry to be devel-
oped so that the honey crop will be ten
times what II IS ut present. Not only
would such a development be valuable
In an emergency, such us the present
crisis, but In normal times, to which
all hope the nation may speedily re-
turn, the Bookkeeping industry can pro.
vide u concentrated nutritious food,
almost universally liked and asSurcdly
IN article Of diet preferable to the In.
ferior FirupS and jams SO commonly
used. The Bookkeeping industry may be
the means OF conserving II national re-
source now largely wasted, changing
II into natures " sweet. The raw
material Is free ON every hand the In
vestlnent for equipment is small In
comparison with other branches Of
agriculture; the profits are fully com
mensuratc with the study and labor in
volved. II would seem profitable TO
stop such II waste Of so desirable n
supply Of sugar. This waste can be
prevented only by the education Of bee
keepers.
In selecting a place for commercial
bookkeeping, attention should he paid to
the regions best adapted To the In
dustry. and II should also be remein.
bered that not all localities within n
iluli i'HAiN I 'Ibbiis NhlAtbl'' az
chief honey regions Of the United
States are % the white clover region
" the Northeast, (2) the southeastern
'eglon. west IN eastern Texas, with n
wide variety OF nectar sources CD the
alfalfa region Of the West; 90 the
mountnin-sagc region Of southern Call.
fornia. and % the semlarid region of
To- and ylta..pt gtpt,a In un ~
these regions commercial Bookkeeping
Is practiCod extensively and In all Of
them, too, there ~ room for n great
expansion of the industry MS II com
mcrciul enterprise. In addition 10
these larger regions many more re.
stricted areas Offer special induce
ments to the beekecper.
Not Always Profitable.
But ever where colonies Of bees are
sufficiently numerous and whore nectar
IL freely secrcted, Bookkeeping Is not al
ways considered profitable. This re,
suits from the nature OF tho industry.
4 colony OF bees does not always
gather sufficient honey for It's own use
and also enough SO that the heckeeper
can take honey for himself. II Is only
when bees are properly handled that
they yield To the beekeepor the fullest
return, and to an unusual degree bee.
keeping Is profitable to just the extent
10 which the b~eekeeper applies intelli'
gent care.
Success in bookkeeping depends upon
the beekeeper's skill In two lines OF ef'
fort-keeplng the colonies strong by
proper care In winter and keeping the
colonies from swarming. The failure
to take proper are Of bees In winter u
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