The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-08-28
CROP WARNING HONEY IN THE
HONE

Honey will cheaper the cost of liv-
ing if you think quick.
The quicker the public adopts the
slogan "eat honey" and realize that
honey is not luxury but a prime sub
stitute Tor more expensive foods, the
quicker we can adapt ourselves to the
growing high cost of living.
We IND many common foods whose
prices are soaring skyward, but not
so with honey, for honey is raised in
every state in the union. There is as
yet no monopoly on the $4,000, 600
| sales per year. But there is danger
that there will be, as quickly as the
middleman discovers that the sugar
supply Is in danger of being short
and that nobody controls the honey.
Late advices from Washington; the
wholesale price in the largest eastern
cities is l3c to lac a pound in bar
rel lots. Last year it was half this
! price. Comb honey is usually at least
double the wholesale extracted honey
rate.
Weight for weight, honey has more
heat units than meat, fish or eggs, an
ounce OF honey surprising the aver
age egg by so per cent more heat val
ne, or 30 units. while one investigator
figures it at SO per cent
The receipt of a study by the Iowa
Food x Dairy Department to show
that honey is far cheaper than many
common foods, prompted us to rework
the figures for Idaho prices last win
ter, so that the benefit of these sug-
gestions may be borne to Idaho house
keepers and beekeepers.
The Idaho estimates are based on
money at 20 cents a pound, or on
for "a cents. Miss Hyde, instruc.
: tor in dietetics at the University oil
Idaho, kindly consented to furnish the
t re-estimates, based on Moscow mar
5 ket prices, and much credit is due
! her students who helped compute the
l comparisons.
4 To be sure the prices on all thes,
e commodities are changing monthly
4 but we believe the same relations still
e exist as then, due to the fact that a.
= a food, honey always undersold al
others and still does. In our family
I the ladies could not eat honey, du
+ to acidity of the stomach, but we fin,
t the clover honey of south Idaho NOR
v digestible..
All hail the housekeeper who i
l. wise enough to use such facts a
y these, for all her previous knowledg
= of buying is put at naught by wa
3. prices, her daily bill-of-fare can b
It kept up as formerly only so long a
t, her home garden still yields her it
bounty. Then comes the long winte
+ when the family will be poorly nour
s ished, if she lops off first this an
o then that favorite dish because tn
S store prices are prohibitive. 1t be
hooves her to study feeding value
of common, foods as never before, &c
her women experts at the Universit
N to tell her what to do. Why shout
you be stupid and stay behind tn
army feeding corps? Up to the tim
he is killed in action, every fightin
n mans food is allowed him on a car,
n fully studied basis of heat value
~ least cost, and most energy. VIII
ce give way to inertia and wait unit
rs your family starves for juicy rnea
and fresh vegetables, before yC
to scratch around for edible substitute
Nv that do not cost beyond your mean
er To the beekeeper, we counsel
es make the most of your home markt
ed by attractive packages, neat label
~ choice colors, and cleanliness in De
son, package, and delivery rig, wht
- you peddle from door to door. YC
have little idea how exacting the eli
housewife is about the neatness
= men from whom she buys at the doc
e She does not know that your hone
8 house is in apple-pie order, and judg,
= whether your honey is fit to eat, n
e from the taste as you may think, b.
= from how clean you are. And WI
should you sell wholesale, when by
= little attention to personal matter
& you can command the better price
= homer
= To all bee enthusiasts we shall
z glad to send upon request a circus
= on the federal publications relating
z beekeeping, honey, and its chemic
z analysis. Call at the Farm Burea
e In conclusion, we second DR. l.. K. Hi
= schlberg of John Hopkins Universe
. who says honey is not only decided
. cheaper than most foods, but twice
= productive of human energy.