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Show Bee Industry in Utah I One of tho very Important of tho horticultural industries in Utah is that of bee culture, and thoso who have numerous nu-merous colonics of bees, who cultivate and multiply them intelligently, keeping keep-ing them freo from foul brood, make large returns annually. Tho yield per colonj from such a plant gives to the beo keeper 300 pounds of honey each 'season, so that a bee keeper with ten Buch colonies will have an annual product prod-uct of 3000 poundB of honey. Ho markets mar-kets this wholesale for from twelve and a half to fifteen cents per pound in tho comb, and from eight to ton cents per pound for extracted honey, and his annual an-nual crop will bring him $300, with but very littlo labor. But oven this is not all his profit. Colonies of bees that have wintered well which means having hav-ing plenty of honey and pure air in tho hives, come out strong in. the spring, and when the honey flow begins they get to work vigorously and it is bees so starting their spring and summer work that give the big return of 300 pounds per colony. The queens in such colonies have been busy laying eggs, and tho brood is healthy and as soon as they recognizo a queen of their own they swarm out of tho parent hive, and tho intelligent bee keeper immediately gathers the swarm and starts a now hivo, and 60 on with swarm after swarm until, under un-der proper handling and beforo the end of the season, tho beo keoper has doubled dou-bled the colonies ho started the season with. Thcso aro the results under the best of conditions, and the best conditions condi-tions prevail only where intelligence is applied in bee culture. Unfortunato-ly, Unfortunato-ly, ail bee koepors do not understand trio requirements of tho bees. Some beo keepors who have had a prosperous prosper-ous season follow tho practico of robbing rob-bing the hives of all the honey the comb3 will shed at the last extraction of the season, with the result that the bees starvo to death, but beforo they havo done so they havo caton all their brood, and tho colony is barren in the spring. Colonies Id Each County. Tho following figures, furnished by the county assessors for tho year 190S, show tho number of colonies in each of the counties of the state. Some counties havo none, and some havo but few, but theso arc the numbers of the colonies of bees that havo been fouud by the nsscssors: Colonios.i Colonics. Beaver SOjPluto S Box Elder C3 San Juan J Cacho ., 645 Sanpete 1413 Carbon 60tSevler 12S4 Davis 144 Tooele 25 j Emery 2316 Uintah 2103 Garfield G4 Wasatch 212 Grand' S3 Washington .... C57 Iron 3S2,Wuvno 76 Juab 307 Weber 339 Morgan 40 This makes a total of 13,705 colonies hi be es in tho state, with four countios, including Salt Lake, showing no bees whatever. President Lovesy of the Utah Bee Keepers association will request tho next legislature for additional and amended legislation for tho benefit of the honey bee industry. Among the suggestions that will bo urged on the members of the legislature will be one creating tho office of atato bee inspect or, tho appointment to be made by the governor, and the inspector to .havo su-pervision su-pervision over all the county inspectors. Mr. Lovesy urge3 that if such a meas-ure meas-ure could become a law, and the proper authority be invested in tho state in-specter, in-specter, tho ovil of foul brood among the bees can bo eradicated from the colonies of the entire state. |