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
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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.
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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.
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iring her reign as 1984 Pa. Honey Queen Martha Herr
plans to make people more familiar with ways honey can be
used.
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