Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 17 | Scarcity of Flowers Brings Starvation

SCARCITY OF FLOWERS BRINGS STARVATION BERLIN, Sept. 13 Thousands of German Ger-man emigrants died of starvation In Holland Hol-land this summer, whither they had gone In search of food. Tho victims were not persons, however, but boon, of which tho beekeepers of "Westphalia and the Rhino districts take thousands of hlveB across the frontier every summer to tho great Pool heath, which In summer 1b covered with masses of wild flowers. Special trains aro employed to facllltato the transit of the honey makers. This year, however, the flowers bloomed later than usual and many of the heoa starved, ao that honey will be scaro and dear ln Gormany this winter.