. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Entered as aeeond-elaas matter July 30,1907, at the Post-Offlce at Chicago, III., under Act of March 3, 1879.) Published Monthly at 75 cents a Year, by George W. York & Co., It8 West Jackson Boulevard. GBORGE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL,, FEBRUARY, 1909 VoL XLIX—No, 2 !dii€orial ^ofes and Comments -**r "W^ •.•^«8g»'»."S«'«7 T'!i'.>"''f^Ot?! -J,.' r. Uncle Sam's Sweet Tooth It takes a million dollars a day to satisfy it with sugar, to say nothing about honey. That's according to the latest Government report
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Entered as aeeond-elaas matter July 30,1907, at the Post-Offlce at Chicago, III., under Act of March 3, 1879.) Published Monthly at 75 cents a Year, by George W. York & Co., It8 West Jackson Boulevard. GBORGE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL,, FEBRUARY, 1909 VoL XLIX—No, 2 !dii€orial ^ofes and Comments -**r "W^ •.•^«8g»'»."S«'«7 T'!i'.>"''f^Ot?! -J,.' r. Uncle Sam's Sweet Tooth It takes a million dollars a day to satisfy it with sugar, to say nothing about honey. That's according to the latest Government report, which is for the year 1907. A honey-leaflet that has had a considerable circulation says that the average annual consumption of sugar for every man, woman, and child in the United States is about 60 pounds. That was true when the leaflet was written; but the consumption has greatly in- creased, and for 1907 it was pounds! At that rate the average individual eats half his own weight of sugar in a year. Of the more than 7,000,000,000 pounds consumed, percent Was of home pro- duction, percent from our insular possessions, and 61 percent from foreign countries. Of the home product, 64 per- cent was from beets and 36 percent from cane. From all this the bee-keeper may at least glean the crumb of comfort that Uncle Sam's taste for sweet is not dying out. Does Age Deteriorate Honey? Mr. Frank Rauchfuss showed some comb honey at the bee-convention, which was three years old. It had candied and liquefied several times, and the comb was but slightly cracked. The honey was liquid, but it had lost all of its original honey-fiavor, and was thick like taffy. Mr. Rauchfuss said that it could no longer be considered as honey. All the water, apparently, had left the honey, and nothing but a sticky syrup was left.—Wesley Foster, in Gleanings. Editor Root adds this footnote: Honey would evaporate more in a Colorado climate than in the East, generally. The pre- sump
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