Show THE WILD BEE IS t NOT SUCHA SUCH A MENACE l r State Apiarist Dan mm II i. Hi 11 man Says SUs Worst Enemy Is F Foul Brood Brood- Brood Price of ot Honc Honey This Year Xeal Will 1 be Satisfactory The wild bee beo is not so menacing as it is usually thought to be by bj byr f r many honey producers according to Dan H. H Hillman state apiarist This Thisbee Thisbee I bee said Mr IT human Hillman takes some somei i nectar to be sure but not enough to cause any serious damage Climatic conditions regulate to a great extent the flow of af honey haney Mr 1 Hillman went on to say The worst menace to the tho bee industry Industry in industry In- In for far ten or twelve years inthis Inthis in inthis this basin has been foul faul brood bra ad Foul Faul brood braad as Is well known by all bee beemen beemen beemen men is a germ in the larvae wh which ich 1 cuts off oft increase in boo bee population The life Ufe of a bee is only anly a summers summer's length so to speak and and when whon no young come came along to take fako the Lne places pJ HOS of those whose work Is done there would soon so-an be none left If w we dOl do dolot donot l pot not get rid of foul faul brood Hundreds Hun Hun- r r of thousands of af dollars has hasI I been lost in ten years There is but little foul brood broad in the basin at this 5 time John Merkley 1 wl who o runs bees in Ashley valley and also on the reservation reservation reso res res- o lost from fram to 20 before he got the foul brood broO l under under under un un- un- un der control John Reader of Vernal Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal has also been a heavy loser And mind you OU it is not nat due clue to their negligence that foul brood broad enters their colonies A dozen years or so ago two colonies brought in here were Infest Infested d with foul brt brood broad d and soon the spread When j y honey haney was as ais high as 12 per can 4 Reader and Merkley had llad to destroy most mast of their bees By the tho time they had head built up colonies ag again ln the price of af honey went down There are more bees In DUI Duchesne county than in any other county In ini i tho the now are that the price is going to be far better than for lar two or ar three seasons past The yield in California Is going to be he short and that is s one ane of the leading honey states in America AmerI 1 Honey producers producers pro pro- here could doubtless set bet et etmore more money if they would co co e. e One great trouble Is that as soon boon as the tho average man extracts als ais honey haney ho he rushes to the market and the buyer hoping that the seller is hard up holds off and the m m is isi h. h i soon glutted glutted- and down comes the price r r Indications now are that the cro crop crap t hero here in the basin will be s g good od Jd and ami that the price will wilI be oe around 12 cents e CI MRS KICHER WORTH C. C D. D Kicher recently convicted convict convIct- ed cd in the Federal court at Salt Lake for violating the banking S laws is said to be preparing his appeal to the higher court A very interesting bit of information a mation has been given out since III 1 the tha conviction of Kicher According According Ac Ac- cording carding to that information his wife Is on his Itis bond for It was brought out during the time that she was qualifying that she has property outside of Utah worth at least We Ve dont don't know just how haw true 0 this is but it comes pretty straight |