BY SUZANNE KEENE LANCASTER - With a little encouragement from Grandpa Herr, Martha Herr, R 2 Lan caster, decided to run for 1984 Pennsylvania Honey Queen. Much to her grandpa’s delight, Martha was crowned on November 18 at the annual winter • meeting of the Penn sylvania Beekeepers Association and began her reign in February. “It was really through him that I decided to do it,” Martha explained. “He’s just so ex cited.” Martha said she sometimes helps her grandfather, Robert C. Herr, with his over 200 hives of bees scattered throught Pennsylvania and Maryland. “The best way to leam something is direct ex perience,” she says. Having just completed her freshman year at Penn State studying for a major in quan titative business analysis, Martha is looking forward to spending more time helping her grandfather with his bees this summer. But much of her time will be spent promoting honey in shopping malls and grocery stores, and on radio and television. Her goal, she said, is to help people realize the many ways that they can use honey. “I don’t think people are aware enough of the uses, and that honey is better for you than sugar,” she said. Honey is easy to digest because it is the simplist form izi Fertilizer... Bag or Bulk! J FEWTILIZEW I SPECIAL ANALYSIS 8-24-8 CORN SPECIA 0-10-30 ALFALFA SPECIAL 8-8-24 TOBACCO 8-16-24 TOBACCO 4-8-12 TOBACCO REGULAR ANALYSIS 10-20-20 15-30-15 20-10-10 10-10-10 15-15-15 10-6-4 (Lawn & Garden!) Others Also Available! LANCASTER PA RICHLAND, PA. 717-866-5701 717-299-2541 un CHARLOTTE HALL, MD. DANVILLE, PA. 301-884-4604 717-275-4850 301-932-6527 Martha Herr promotes all-natural honey of sugar and is an excellent substitute for sugar in baked goods. “Things baked with honey keep longer and stay moister,” Martha explained. While Martha spent the first few months of her reign getting better acquainted with the industry and preparing a brochure, her schedule for the summer looks much busier. From May to August, her busiest months, Martha said she will be spending three to five days a week promoting honey. “It’s really going to be keeping me busy,” she said. Martha is looking forward to traveling over the state to promote honey and beekeeping on radio and television, at fairs, markets and malls, and organizational dinners. She recently held a mall promotion in Carlisle where she set up a demonstration hive for people to observe and handed out crackers with honey smeared on them. “They really enjoy looking at the observation hive,” Martha said of the children at the mall. Most of her knowledge about beekeeping comes from wat ching her grandfather work with his bees. Three kinds of bees inhabit a hive, she explained. The queen bee lays the eggs, the drone bees mate with the queen and the worker bees gather the pollen. When a queen bee leaves the hive, all the other bees follow her. 5-10-10 In Pa. 1-800732-0396 Outside Pa. 1-800233-3822 Call For The Name Of Your Nearest Dealer! With this knowlege, beekeepers have learned that by putting a single queen bee on their chin, they can soon have a “bee beard,” Martha ex plained. The beekeeper collects the honey every few days during the summer months when bees are most productive, she continued. To remove the honey from the frames, her grandpa puts the frames in an extractor which spins in a circle, creating a centrifugal force which draws the honey out. The daughter of Willis and Martha Herr, Martha was bom and raised on a fruit farm and plans to spend her extra hours this summer working at her father’s market in Marietta and on the farm. She has five brothers ranging in age from five to 20 and is happy to be home from school and spending more time with them. A 1983 graduate of Penn Manor High School, Martha was class secretary and a member of the tennis team. She plans to spend the next three years at Penn State, where she has been active in Campus Crusade for Christ and intramural volleyball. Next year, she said, she intends to join the business and ping pong clubs. During her reign as honey queen, Martha will be saving memoirs and making a scrapbook which will be part of her presentation when she competes for the American Honey Queen title in January. R/K AGRI SERV.CE, 500 Running Pump Rd., Box 6277 Lancaster, Pa. 17603 UPPER MARLBORO, MD. Three M Farm Service 301-627-8700 301-627-3300 iring her reign as 1984 Pa. Honey Queen Martha Herr plans to make people more familiar with ways honey can be used. INC. SALES REPRESENTATIVES Northern MD& Southern PA 717-684-8431 North Central PA Rep 717-356-7962 Eastern PA Rep 215-865-5795 Southern Maryland 301-257-2572 DON LOHR HAROLD BRECHT... DAVE BORSOI JAMES H.MCKENNY. 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