Show DEMAND FOR SUGAR LESSENED BY HONEY bees will cretu return rn profitable crop of sweets each year ample room for expansion of doth both production and consumption J beekeeping should be extended in many localities prepared by the tha unit ed states department of agriculture 1 cu ture with etli the present growing denland demand for sugar in the lie united states it la Is important chilt every possible wentla bo be employed on oil the farm to produce I 1 tilt es way by which tills call be done Is to keep keel bees nuil and got bet it 11 crop of lioney which can cain be used in many maii ways itis lit in or of sugar the hie production of 0 honey tn lit tills this country call be increased without krent great effort elfort not only those who keep bees increase thu the number of 0 their col onles lint tile industry should be ex bende tende I 1 in totalities localities where acro beekeeping lins him nut not been t tried red I 1 on oil a n commercial scale the hie average annual honey crop of 0 the HIP I 1 states Is 19 about nebout airn i ii nic to n supply enell endi a 7 I 1 i 1 0 T yu J will arranged Arlan ged allary man woman anti child etli about ii pounds a year which Is equivalent to 3 per cent of the amount of consume con in normal ahnes thus there Is ample loom for expansion of both the production product ton and consumption the nt use of honey in the homo home ally Is its as a substitute for jellies jellied jams s and it Is little used lit in domestic cooking ur baking but tills use should be In ancie creao aed while lill honey within recent years sears tins has sold nt lit prices sufficient ly I 1 low to justify its use us its n substitute for sugar it Is rarely used lit in cosimer coulmer co ulmer caal food manufacturing except in the lie making inking ii of certain cakes which must be kept moist for it 11 considerable time usually however tile the supply of honey lionel Is 18 so inadequate that must most of the tha crop can all be used as a spread for brend with tit alio use limited ns as it Is many people in ili the united states rarely cat caf honey but it la Is evident that there might nil lt ho be developed a rendy ready sale for lion lioney as a supplement to sugar if production were increased ronny many times limes tile of nectar secreted by the untold myriads of holers flowers fr from oni which bees mike make honey Is large beyond our comprehension the total amount of sugar lit in the lie nectar greatly exceeds the lie amount of all sugar all and other sweets con consumed mined by the american people unfortunately front the standpoint of man mail this sugar cannot till all lie be collected and utilized as human tood food arven ilia hie honey bee which Is so fin often tided as nn an example of industry con consumes ames mmes for its own food the larger of f all that it collects lit IR therefore tho the means of saving for human usi use it a small fraction of the ast enst store of sugar secreted hut but the lie ra raw maberta mat erta Is free end and its coti costs only n small email ex prud iture for and relatively little in ili ichor ind and the ix loney honey crop could be 10 inert frier asid eased 10 oi ni even 20 chiler with out Ine inck rensing the rost cost of production per pound to tin an degree |