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Show BEEKEEPERS DISCUSS PROBLEM State Tax Declared Inadequate To Needs; County Urges . Fee Inspection. Salt Lake City. That the state ordinance or-dinance requiring payment of $1 per apiary of bees does not meet the requirements, re-quirements, because of the difficulty 1 met with in collecting the tax, wa! the opinion expressed by Harden Ben-nion, Ben-nion, state commissioner of agriculture agricul-ture to the Utah State Beekeepers' ' association. . He Rnir,r0t,i ,( fee be collected by the county and used as an inspection fee. He concludes con-cludes that should this method be adopted, necessity for state collection would be eliminated, which heretofore has proved an undesirable expense, and that administration of the law would be more efficient. Dan H. Hillman, state bee inspec-: inspec-: tor, made the following report in part relative to the industry. There was an increase of 10.1S9 colonies col-onies of bees in 1925 over that of tie preceding year, making the total ol 57.S32 colonies up to date, as against 37,627 colonies in 1919, when the first report was made, which is an increase of 62 per cent in the growth of the Industry in the past six years. |