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0U SHOULD EAT HONEY
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The Family Should Come Naturally to Use it as a Partial
and Very Desirable Substitute for Sugar, and All Will
Be the Healthier and Happier for It
(The following lg a special ar
ticle by H. A. Scullen, assistant
professor of entomology and spe-
cialiist in bee culture of the Ore
gon Agricultural college. It con
tains matter that la of value to
every one who has a regard for
his or her health, as well as being
interested in the development of
Oregon, and especially of the Sa
lem district:)
Strange as it. may seem, many
people do not fully understand the
source of houey or just what
honey Is. Yet the time is not far
in the past when man knew no
other sweet. At the present time
the average Individual consumes
about 60 pounds of sugar in a
year with a relative decrease in
the. amount of honey eaten.
Honey is first collected from
various flora by the bee in the
form of a thin nectar. This nec
tar consists of about 60 per cent
of water and 40 per cent of
sugar. The sugar is chemically
similar to cane sugar. Two chan
ges, however, take place in nectar
to form honey. In, the first place
the bees evaporate the bulk of the
water, thus concentrating the so
lution and incidentally improving
the flavor. Secondly, a chemical
change takes place similar to the
process which goes on in the hum
an stomach after eating cane sugar.
As a result the sugar is in a form
which can be readily absorbed by
the most particular digestive sys
tem.
Why Honey Is a Superior Fpod
Honey is a food of superior val
ue not only because it is so readily
absorbed by' the digestive system
tut for several other reasons.. Not
the least of these is the natural
flavor brought from the flower it
self which no other artificial
sweet catf ever have.
Furthermore "we find in honey
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EVERY DAY
0. A. c.
some of those little known but ex
tremely important elements known
as vitamines, which are entirely
lacking in sugar and the common
syrups, due to the high tempera
tures to which they are subjected.
Also we find honey contains most
of the valuable minerals which
modern processes 4ave so fre
quently eliminated from many
forms of food, and fsparially is
this true in regard to sugar and
the syrups made from sugar.
Why lioney Differs in Color and
Flavor
The color and flavor of honey
depends on the plant from which
the bees collect the nectar. For
tunately the bees prefer to work on
flowers which produce the better
grades of honey when such flowers
are available and are secreting
nectar. The leading honey pro
ducing plants of Oregon all furnish
honey of superior color and flavor.
They are: clover, alfalfa, sweet
clover and willowherb. As a rule
the darker honeys have a slightly
stronger flavor.
Honey Xot Adulterated
Honey is so rarely adulterated
that one might almost say it nev
er is. This is due to the fact that
beekeepers recognize the practice
would only curtail their market
and furthermore that the pure
food law forbids it. The consum
er often fears there is adultera
tion because the honey granulates
or is almost white. Yet if one
could secure honey from any one
of the above named hooey plants
with no nectar from aaiy other
plant the result would be practi
cally water white honey in each
case.
Granulation Evidenoo of Purity
Honey contains two sugars (dex
tross) and (levulose.) These su
gars are present in about equal
amounts, but in most honeys the
dextrose predominates and when
it does honey granulates readily.
This the case with most Oregon
honeys. On the other hand when
the levulose predominates the
honey is slow to granulate and in
rare cases does not granulate at
all. Many people are learning to
prefer granulated honey rather
than liquid honey. Yet if one pre
fers to have it in the liquid form
one needs only to place the honey
container in a vessel of hot water
(not boiling) or simply set the
container in the warming oven of
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the kitchen range for a day or
so.
Honey for Cooking
When tested recipes are used
many superior dishes may be pre
pared with honey as the sweeten
ing element. Cakes and cookies
when thus prepared keep moist
for a long time. A list of tested
recipes will be supplied by the
writer upon request.
One of the most delightful com
binations which has recently be
come quite popular is a mixture
of ordinary peanut butter and
honey. When thinned with honey
in place of water the peanut butter
will keep indefinitely.
Koep Honey Warm and Dry
Honey, especially comb honey,
should always be stored where it is
dry and warm. Comb honey ab
sorbs moisture from damp air and
SALEM'S BEST POSTED
SALEM DISTRICT IS A BEE PARADISE
He Compares the Conditions
Those of the Bee Keeping
Problem Is Our Summer
Late Bee Pasture
Editor Statesman:
Is the Willamette valley poten
tially a good bee country? From j
the observation of the writer after
twelve years experience, the an
swer must be in the affirmative.
In the east the beekeeper would
have not only most of the prob
lems of this country, but far more
serious ones as well. Wintering,
for instance, is the great problem
of beedom in the colder sections
of the east, as it is necessary i.ol
only to construct elaborate bee
cellars with due regard to ventila
tion and the conservation of heat,
but cellar wintering is attended
with other far more serious ele
ments of danger. It is a compar
atively easy matter to construct
b?e cellars that are correct in ev
ery essential as far as the conser
vation of the heat of the hive is1
concerned, but in the best of cel
lars there are other factors to con
tend with, such as too early
brood-rearing and several, diseases
of bees consequent on the long
confinement. The disease known
as dysentery for instance, while
not a serious one as far as its cure
Is concerned. Is nevertheless fatal
to many colonies and is caused
principally by poor stores and too
long confinement on that kind of
food. By poor stores Is m,eant
such natural food as the bees are
apt to gather in certain localities
badly infested with( those insects
known as aphis' which sercte a
saccarine substance akin to honey
and known commonly as honey
dew. This honey dew contains, in
addition to saccarine, certain sub
stances of a gummy or glutinous
nature which the bees are unable
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in t(ime is apt to sour. Cold air
causes honey to granulate much
sooner that it would otherwise.
Buy in Ijurge Containers
Since extracted honey can be
purchased so much cheaper in the
larger containers and when proper
ly cared for keeps indefinitely,
enough for the entire family for a
year or more should be purchased
at one time. It,, should then be
kept on the table along with the
salt, pepper, sugar and tooth picks.
There will then be less, danger of
anyone making himself sick of it
by over eating because of not hav
ing had any for some time. The
family w(ill then come naturally to
use it a3 a partial and very desira
ble substitute for the sugar and al
will be the healthier and happier
forit.
BEE MAN SAYS
and Advantages Here With
uisincis ot me tasi me
Drought and Providing for
to properly digest, resulting in the
faecal excretion accumulating past
the capacity of the bees to accom
modate, and as the bee is natur
ally one of the cleanest of insects
ami loath to void its excretions
within the hive, the result is a
swollen and diseased condition
known as dysentry. The cure for
this condition is simple. Give the
bees a flight now and then dur
ing the winter on, fine warm days
when they occur and all is well.
'Easier Wintering Conditions
This, of course, entails consid
erable work for the bee keeper.
as it is no small job to carry any
large number of hives in and out
of a beee cellar,' not to say any
thing about the incidental danger
of having a sudden change of tem
perature set in while the bees are
out, resulting in the loss of enor
mous numbers of bees. Bees will
fly when the temperature ia little
above the freezing point if the sun
is shining brightly, and it is often
enough to chill them to have the
sun obscured by a cloud. These
conditions are all foreign to the
Willamette valley, and while I do
not decry the value of proper
packing and winter insulation.
even to the extent of double
walled hives or the packing box or
tenement hive system, at the same
time it is possible to winter bees
on their summer stands without
so much as an extra board on top
of the hive to serve as a ra.n
break. I have had hives without
any protection whatever, come
through in as good condition as
others which I took the pains and
trouble to pack and protect in a
thorough manner.
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Bees Alwady Working. !
In addition to the above-mentioned
advantages of this climate
as a wintering one, is to be con
sidered the early spring. Today,
the 18th of February, I Inspected
my bees and found them not only
wintering in fine shape and with
plenty of stores left, but all
queens laying and brood emerg
ing, the air alive with bees going
and returning laden with pollen.
Contrast this with the eastern bee
keeper, who dare not remove his
bees from their winter quarters
until settled warm weather, and
considers himself doing well to
build them up by May 1st in time
for the white clover honey har
vest.
Still Moree Advantage.
In addition to all the advan
tages of easy wintering and early
springing, must be added the
bountiful sources of nectar in the
abundance t of spring flowering
plants and shrubs, many of them
producers of the finest honey. Our
numerous small -streams are lined
with willows of different varieties
producing an abundance of early
pollen available many times in
mid-winter, so that the feeding of
artificial pollen in this section is
an unheard of thing. Next in or
der of its importance in the spring
is the blossoming of the maples,
and in the estimation of the writ
er there is no finer honey than
that produced by the scrub trees
known as vine maple. Closely fol
lowing the maples we have an
abundance of shrubs and plants;
one of the most valuable from a
bee keepers' standpoint being the
shrub known as Scotch broom.
While it is a worthless pest, it is
generally found growing in un
used land and along road sides
and waste places. This plant is a
legume, and, like all members oi
that valuable family of plants
which include the common pea
and bean of our gardens and the
clovers so familiar to all as pro
ducers of our, best honey, is a
source of much pollen and honey
at a time when it is most needed
to build up the colony. It will
produce both nectar and pollen
for several weeks and is a never
failing supply year after year.
Xectar Where Xot Expected
Many persons unacquainted
with the flora necessary to suc
cessful bee culture would natur
ally think that a large quantity of
flowers would of necessity hi s
good bee pasture and, vice versa
the lack of same would entail
failure. It is not the conspicuous
exotic flowers of the home on
whiich bees depend, but, on the
contrary, the more inconspicuous
the flower, the more certain it is
to contain nectar, for nature is a
wohderful provider of ways and
rieans to further her ends. Per
petuation of species is the end all
plants as well as the animates are
striving for, and nature has pro
vided that the stationary plants
without the power of self propo
gation must depend on insects to
carry the fertilizing pollen from
one flower tos another. It is fit
ting, therefore, that these litt'e
agents should be properly reward
ed for their services. Bees are the
principal insects acting in this ca
pacity, and it is a fortunate and
wise provision of nature that au
ample supply of the necessary nec
tar secreting plants usually exists
in all locations.
There Are Also Problems
However, all that glitters is not
golden, and the bee keeper has his
problems in this valley as well as
he has in other sections. Bees are
subject to certain diseases, chief
of which are the two foul brood
diseases knwn as European and
American foul brood. These two
diseases are similar in that they
affect the young brood in the lar
val stage of their existence, al
though they are not alike in their
cause and, effect. It is not my
purpose to treat on the brood di
seases at this time further than
to say that they are not an on
.surmountable obstacle to the suc
More and Larger
Those You Have
Why rafter with Stomach Trouble whea ; ChtropractM fQ
cessful keeping of bees. We have
always had them and probably al
ways will have them' It is pos
sible to harvest a rop of honey
even with the diseases rampant
in your apiary, but of course no
selT-respecting beftlheSper. would
tolerate disease without ' taking
steps to eradicate it. To those
keepers of bees having any disease
of the brood or any apparent de
rangement of the colony not due
to some known cause such as loss
of queen, I would recommend that
a sample of the diseased comb
containing larvae In various
stages ot growth be wrapped in
waxed paper such as bakers use
for wrapping bread and enclosed
in a tight wooden box and sent to
the, Department of Agriculture,
Bureau of Entomology, at Wash
ington, D. C. for examination.
Aim! the Summer Drought.
Another great problem that con
fronts the keeper of bees in this
section is the summer drought,
and until such time as additional
nectar producing plants such as
the whiite and yellow5 sweet clover
get a start, it will be necessary to
adopt a system of looking after
your bees that will carry them
over this period. It, therefore, re
solves itself into a question of
leaving them stores to carry them
over the winter or providing them
with a substitute in the form of a
syrup made from white granulat
ed sugar in the proportion of two
sugar to one of water by measure.
This is b?st fed to the bees in Oc
tober arM should be given within
the hive preferably at night One
of the best feeders to use is a
common gallon friction top pail
such as is used as a container for
the commercial syrup known ' as
Karo. The friction lid of tha pail
should have numerous small holes
punctured in it with a small nail,
the lid tightly pressed down and
the pail .inverted over the brood
nest; an extra empty hive body
being placed thereon and covered
with the regular hive top or cover.
Two gallons of such syrup made
with about sfxtten pounds of best
granulated sugar will winter any
colony in this section, and the cost
is far less than the' same amount
of good honey would be to leave
in the hive.
The Trick of It
Winter feeding, contrary to the
belief of some of the uninitiated,
does not consist of supplying the
demands of the bses at frequent
intervals as you would an animal,
but should be done once and ear
ly enough in the season to enable
the bees to ripen and seal the
syrup as they would do with nat
ural honey, but not too early lest
it stimulate brood rearing.
No Problem There.
In certain favored localities,
there is no summer problem for
the reason of the accessibility of
the mountains and the burned
over waste land, which is covered
with an abundant of fire weed
(also called Elk weed and Indian
Pink, etc..) which is a producer
of what is considered one of the
finest honeys in the world. It is
a pure almost white honey of the
most delicious flavor and brings
the highest price in the markets
of the cities where it is offered
for sale. This plant grows, wild
wherever timber land has been
burned over, hence its name of
Mreweed. and all efforts to culti
vate It or propogate it have so far
failed.
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At an times to aaclat Is
aay poaible way the AyU
opment of the. fruit sal
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Houri 10 to 12 ajq. ud 2 to 0 pjs.
May Move the Bees.
Fortunately, It , is an J1I lnd
that blows nobody. good, and while
we, deplore tiejjida-i oC;the fine
timber by flrMt Is possible tor
the bee keeper.to, jeapsome ben
efit from the-4aJamity, and there'
are but few locations in . lheWIl
lamette vaUey!f where a bee keeper
cannot . successfully winter his
bees, harvest, the .early crop ot
honey and incidentally build up
his bees, then move them by into
truck a comparatively short dis4
tance to where he can pasture the'
mountain sides from July 1st till
frost puts an end to the flow. )
It is the practice of many Cali
fornia bee keepers to " move their
bees many miles to the orange'
groves and when that flow' stops,'
move them a long distance to the
sages on the mountains and.des-
erts.. If they can successfully do
it, so can we, now that we have so
many hard, surfaced market roads
leading in all 'directions in many
cases to. .'the mountains them
selves.
A Ree Paradise.
The question naturally comes,
up it such a bee paradise exists,'
why has- it not been taken up be-;
fore? This is a Question I am not
prepared to answer. ; Oregon has,
been backward in advertising her
self to the world,' and in consent
quence has not attracted, to hef
doors such a pilgrimage as has1 bet
northern and southern neighbor,
and this no doubt applies to tht
bee keepers, as well as other set
tiers. There are many thousand
acres of available bee pasture ia
our mountains that have never
been occupied, whereas it is next,
to impossible to find's good loca
tion in other well-known field
such as the irrigated alfalfa dis
tricts, without overlapping the ter
ritory of some other bee keeper,,
with the result that neither caa"
make any-money owing to the re
duced Bupply or rather to thi
overstocking of the district.' f
FRANK M. ALLEY. I
Salem. Ore., Feb. 18,1 1924. '
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This is the fifth annual bee Slo
gan number to which Mr. AUe$
has contributed; by letter or inter
view. He is probably the best?
posted bee : man in Salem. H
could write a book about bees. Hi
has always accentuated the imporj
tance of late "bee pasture here.
He knows well that the early honj
ey flow here is the best in anj
country or section. But tbe rrow
era here, and especially the frutt
growers, are realizing mora and
more the necessity of providing
bees with late bee pasture, wlla
white, alsike and sweet clover,
and the other well-known nectar
bearing growths. When there 1?
plenty of late bee pasture, this will
be the best bee country, in the
world it will be a veritable bee
paradiise. Ed.) ' , I
Not AFTER
Rnt before you
build, investigate'
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