| Show more honey available this year honey production in utah is up a little this year to an estimated pounds but price is down reports dr G IF knowlton U S A C extension entomologist mo logist the present price of honey is not attractive enough to induce an expansion of the bee beekeeping keepin 9 industry which expansion would be most helpful to fruit growers alfalfa and vegetable vega table seed growers and to the general welfare of utah dr knowlton said honey in five ten and sixty pound containers is a very good buy and one of the cheapest luxury foods the housewife can put on the table he added the high prices and scarcity of honey for a year or two made many home owners forget about this important and attractive food unless home consumption of honey increases with a a strengthening of honey prides prices agriculture is likely t to suffer due to i a reduction in 14 number of pees bees which are important crop crap pollinators pollina tors |
