ADDED USES OF HONEY

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

ADDED USES OF HONEY

Busier Times for Busy Bees

Not satisfied with the fact that honey \ is now used in a variety of manufac- i tured products ranging from cosmetics I to golf balls, new industrial uses are constantly being sought—and found— , it w'as revealed during the International , Beekeeping Congress in Pan Antonio, , Texas, recently. 4 Moreover, honey i» one crop of which there is no overproduction in the pre- t aent estimated annual American output i of 170,000,000 pounds, according to Mr. It. H. Kelty, of East Lansing. Mich., president of the American Honey lnsti- , tute. So, what with continued promo- , tion of its product as a table spread as well as a raw material tor industry, an even busier era appears to face the ' busy little bee. Uncle Sara’s bureau ot chemistry is i playing an important part in developing new commercial uses for honey and . the bureau’s Dr. Lt. E. Lothrop told how tests had proved superiority of honey over most other sweetenings in ability to absorb and retain moisture. That property remains after its mixture with other ingredients and baked in bread or cake where “freshness” requires moisture, Dr, Lothrop pointed out. Ho added that if honey replaced other sugars in all the 25,030,090 loaves of bread baked daily in this country,

there would not be enough honey to go around, on the basis of present domestic production. The bee aud honey people themselves maintain the American Honey Institute with its continuous educational campaign to extend honey consumption and its testing kitchen at Madison, Wis., where new delicacies are concocted with the nectar-sweet as theii principal ingredient. Mrs. M. F. Jensen, in charge at Madison, reported that increase of several ounces in the past few years had raised the nation’s per capita honey consumption to a pound and a-half annually Mouth-watering candies, butters and breads entered in the institute’s third annual honey cookery contest furnished ample basis for the prediction that household use alone should soon put another pound on the per apita consumption. The busy beo may buzz a universal “language,” but all its products are not alike. There are light honeys and dark honeys—honeys whose floral sources are the clover blossoms of the central states and the kind made by insects which sip uectar from huajilla. blooms Admittedly some are not desirable for table use.