The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
Bee Raising Industry Is Developed
Fine Quality of Home Produced Honey Sold the Local Market
Interesting Facts About the Life and Habits of Little Workers.

No Won remember way back Whel
-, were A boy and you and Bill, you
!1 ,,,, found a bumblebee's nest I'm
iIr an old stump or in the hollow o
an old tree:
q" What did you do?
And when you had poked that OLE
..;cl into the nest and whole swarm
;; "6ohtin' mad" vengeance buzzint
u ot;oorTs made bee line for you how
you aud Bill did run
" And lust as you thought you hac
r,ade 2 clean getaway a hot needle
;nbbed itself right through the top o
your head!
r.;ntrv mornings when you just hateC
40 oet out of your bed, and after yot
had sleaked behind the stove to dress
1 ,ou saw Ma mixing up some par
IKE, and you ate about dozen al
covered with some dark BROWNIE
not that syrup you get in a pail to
J9y with a funny name and funnie1
ta:te but real, old, brown, sweetel
tban sugar honey? Honey, that you
dad had taken out of the old tree. Rea
honey. and ali you wanted OF it.
Forget Childhood Pleasures.
In these days of business, every
thing business, the hurry and hustle
Of making a living, talking about tht
orofteers, the grafters, the railroad
rates. the coal strike and all our 9th
er troubles one forgets sometime!
those childhood pleasures, those hear
y. healthy meals when one used tc
eat more for breakfast than one doe:
now in a day.
Strange to say, though, one may
find today, just the same as of old
those simple living families who ea
pancakes for breakfast, and the little
bow digs down with huge knife anc
spreads all the honey he wants.
But the honeyl
Where does the honey of today
come from? That is story with {
subject as fascinating as the Arabian
Nights tales of old.
For. with the advent of CONNER
calized agriculture, where the produc.
ton of all foods has come to be Z
specialized business, great in magni.
tude and marvellous in compleXity, the
making of honey is no longer left tc
the chance work of the bees OF gen
Grafton ago who picked out their own
homes. but is controlled and directed
with the same intelligence and fore
sight with which the level cotton fields
of southwest Georgia are TRANSFORMED
into cloth for the world.
Now a Business.
The production of honey is bust
ness.
Not only that, it is a business that
is professional in nature, complex III
detail, and, in size, an industry. In
1919 the United States exported over
100000 pounds of honey valued at
approximately $3,000,000. This figure
4 does not include, of course, the domes-
8 tic consumption. No data is available
Il on that question, but when it is re-
81 called that Americans are the great
s. est users of sweets in the world the
export figures give an mixing OF
what the domestic consumption must
be. 1t may be safely said that 95 per
cent of the honey crop is used at
home.
A study OF honey production neces,
sarilv involves a study of bees and
Bookkeeping.
Interesting Insects.
Bees are interesting insects. Average
persons think of bees only in terms OF
their sting. and it is acknowledged that
their sting is powerful Yet, III spite
OF the sting carried by all bees, they
are handled by beekeepers with the
same ease that horses or other forms
OF live stock are cared for The bee
man knows what the bees purpose is
and he allows the bee to carry out
that purpose. Under his control and
direction these many thousand busy
workers, noted for their industry, ac-
emulate stores of sweetness that &c
to furnish breakfast tables the coun-
try over
First OF all consider how many
kinds of bees there are. Then one can
understand how they operate and how
they are controlled.
The bumblebee is to we'll known to
mention. It is an entirely different SORT
OF bee than the kind that makes our
honey. The only point OF similarity is
that he alsol carries a powerful sting
and he uses it freely
Dismissing the bumblebee, consld-
er who it is that sucks the sweetness,
out OF the myriad of wild flowers and
stores that sweetness for our use. Vi
course the bees do not have that pur-
pose in mind, but under the intelligent
direction of their owners they not on
ly store enough for their own use, but
an abundant surplus for the table
All Female Bees.
Did you know that all those bees
you see working ion the flowers are
female bees? Not male bee there;
There are three kinds of bees. Inc
queen" bee is the royal member o.
the family, and she rules the hive
with iron hand. allowing no other
queen to enter her domain. Queer
bees are really class OF bees dlstln tune,
from all others, because they are. the
only female bees that become, tullS
developed. The worker bees, who are
the ones that gather all the honey, are
born the same as the queen bee, bu
In smaller cell. They do not become
fully developed because their diet Il
different from that of the queen bee