Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1912 — Australia’s Honey Market. [ARTICLE]

Australia’s Honey Market.

The Australian bee-keepers are up against a hard problem to solve —A better market for honey. They have tried the English market, which will not purchase their honey at any price, as they dislike the peculiar flavor. Probably their home market can be developed. The baking trade (large factories) takes up a good deal of the ordinary grades of honey in this country,. Probably the Australians buy their fancy cakes in England, where the biscuit trade uses sugar almost exclusively; if so, there is an excellent opportunity for an Australian baking factory to step in and capture the trade, for honey is undoubtedly superior to sugar for this purpose. If* our friends of the antipodies have never tried honey bread they ought to at once,- for they will probably admit Yerv quickly it is somewhat superior to any bread they ever tas-. ted. For the children It has a wonderfully attractive power, quite/ equal to the best confections. Extracted honey of a'good grade sells in Melbourne and Sydney for 6 to 6 H cents per pound.