The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-12-22
Practical Bee Man Tells the His-
tory and Use Of the
Product.
NEXT TO MILK IN QUALITY
Inteiiioently Conducted Bee Culture
10 Profitable Industry In
Certain Localities.

that the general public has taken any
interest in the real value Of many pro-
duets used as food by humanity.
Really. great deal more attention
has been paid to the profitable feeding
of dairy cows. hens. etc, than to the
food that human beings have been
consuming.
II is but recently that widespread
campaigns have been carried on in
various cities OF the United States,
and especially among school children,
in the interest OF a larger and more
general consumption Of so common
food article as milk. Why, most OF us
thought that milk was the best food in
all the world, but we did not really
know it. until Prof F. v. McCollum
and a few other noted food specialists
gave US the results of their scientific
Investigations.
Honey Second to Milk.
Well a close second to milk as
health. giving and health-cOntinuing
food is honey. In reality, honey is an
ideal food. 1t is Natures own sweet,
first distilled in the hectares of the
blossoms, then gathered by the busy
little honey.bees, stored in their hive
comb-cells. evapOrated to almost wax
like consistency. and then sealed
over; thus forming the beautiful and
tempting squares Of delicious comb
honey which we find in the retail gro
ceries in almost every well-regulated
neighborhood.
But most OF the honey in the mar.
kets is in the form of what is called
extracted" honey. This is first com.
pleted by the bees in combs about
SKIS inches in size. These combs are
built and held in the hive in light
wooden frames. When completed by
the bees, they are removed, taken to
an extracting" room in house or
other building, where the thin wax
cappings on both sides of the comb
are shaved off with sharp knife, and
the uncapped combs set in wire comb.
baskets that revolve very rapidly by
special metal gearings within large
tin or galvanized iron can; and the
honey is thus thrown out by centrif-
ugal force.
After the combs are entirely free Of
the honey, they are replaced in the
hives, where they are refilled, and the
later operation Of extracting the
honey is repeated-that is, provided
the flowers continue to yield nectar
for the bees to gather and store in
combs.
I started out to tell something about
the great value of honey as food. but
thought the process Of producing
cOmbless or extracted honey might
be Of interest to the uninitiated. So
now for the food value of honey:
Among the well-known dietarians,
DR.. Bruce Belden. has this to say in
the Atlanta Georgian:
Most Valuable Of Foods.
Honey is one Of the most valuable
of our foods, and it has been recOgniz-
ed as such from the earliest days. 1t
is suggested by an eminent food
authority, that we use 1t more in
place OF our ordinary sugar as more
suitable food product from the point
of view of digestibility. Another
scientist has shown that honey con.
tains so many of the elements need.
ed in our diet that the substitution OF
honey for sugar might almost be con-
sidered an urgent step.
THE sugars which make up honey
do not have to undergo chemical
changes in the alimentary canal be-
fore absorption; and honey might,
therefore. be called an ideal food.
Besides this, the calories, or energy.
producing units 1t contains. are great
er in number than those of meat and
eggs, which are themselves concen.
trated sources of fuel for the body.
by the analysis of a Swiss scien-
fist, Prof. Bunge. honey is shown to
have. besides formic acid. two other
important ingredients not contained
in sugar. These are the valuable min.
erals-lime, which occurs in honey in
a quantity Of 81 per cent; and iron, in
quantity Of 1.20 per cent. These
substances are taken out OF many of
our foods by refining and it would be
we'll to make us this serious deficiency
by using more honey, or by substi-
tuting honey for the less valuable
cane sugar."
Growing children are often fed on
various corn syrups and other pro.
ducts Of inferior food value, when, il
parents only knew it, they would be
glad to supply honey among other
heaith-and. b0dily.vigor producing
foods: and often at less cost than the
less nourishing things that are sup
piled.
trust what l have here given will
only serve to whet the breeders ap-
petite for more information on this
very important subject, and lead him
or her to follow the wise Biblical in
junction, namely. ito prove all things"
and hold fast to that which is good"
like honey, milk, etc.