Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1919 — Much Honey Goes to Waste. [ARTICLE]

Much Honey Goes to Waste.

Whole shiploads of honey have been sent to Europe, and more is wanted. Few* people realize that 250,000,000 pounds of honey are produced in the United States alone each year. Yet the department of agriculture says that the output ought to- be much greater, and that millions of dollars’ worth of sweets annually are going to waste in the fields for lack of bees to gather the nectar. When the consumer pays twice as much for a comb of honor as he did a few years ago he feels disposed to buy a stand of bees himself.