Show UTAh UTA tI BEES AND HONEY Concerning the b bee and honer hone Indus industry tr try In Utah for 1900 K E S Lovesy prel president dent or of time Ulf UtAh nee Bee Keepers lion writ writes In review and commentary form torm as follows oUm This Thill season on like the one immediately ma may be considered nn an ot off otI year nr Although conditions condition were er quite I different this year ar to those of 13 The spring of the latter was wal very verr late Ite cold and stormy and maD many bees died or of what hAt is II known as prill dwindle Then Thon later through copious spring rains lime came a heavy now how ot of honey hony hut Dut for tor forthe Ih the reason n named tb the bees In man many lo 10 were too weak to rather and care ff for tOI It Iut 1111 during durin Ute the put palt season the spring up beautifully and time the be bee all as a arule rule built ur up finely during the fruit blooming period As a consequence of Ih time bet bee look for tor a pros porous season though a fey few old farsee settlers predicted a drouth because all as they said lIld there was s little snow the mountains This predl prediction llon bee keepers found to tobe tobe be true In districts where there thre was plenty of irrigation water there was wal a bounteous harvest ot nt honey hont In the Hie dry sections tInt there w was little or none To Tomalee Tomake make malee ma matters worse wone the grasshoppers th the drouth stricken localities anti and nearl nearly all of th the vegetation tion upon whick the bees The only plant or of note that escaped their rapacity was at the Mountain honey honto plant nut that old enemy of the I grasshopper time the seagull came ame In large I numbers and devoured so 10 that In Inmany I many localities the bee ha have been heen able abl to build up tip again until the they are In good 1 for the winter I We have received some reports report or of phenomenal yields of honey hone the highest about pounds We note that a very er few ot of our bH bee keepers have painted tb the dark of the situation III black pr or colors colone than the they really a are Of this WI we feet certain Wf We have been to con considerable I trouble and same expense to obtain Information I as to time the hony product over oer the StAte In the south anil south central counties the bees have hAt dons done well also Rho In ad ache Wet Weber r anti places Some ot of our bee keepers 1111 have made ten times all as much man manfrom money from their ba as they thOy hae mave from their farina find and while willi the many dealers In Salt lake have handled bandied over ocr on one mil million millien lion lien pounds ot of honl honey one firm has handled flA or of extracted hone hono anti MI pound In section Uon M he a large JArge quantity or of wax Now while we given Iven some IOme of tile the causes for thIs failing ort off there are others 1 First ot of all In Salt Lake Inke county Is th the poisonous and smelter smoke In time heretofore best t halt half ot Salt lAke county east southeast and northeast of at these smelters for II a die tante of at live he miles mile or more mort the industry is III now well nigh a total faIlure Some bet bee keepers hundred of hives and AmI In n some instance have hae not a single colony left It h ha been el amply proved that the bets beI art are destroyed b by tilt the set tt of the smoke moke towards the ground Conditions are worse orae when there is II but little rain to wash the smoke sediment from the vegetation upon which the bo bees fl live An experiment was made I with sith fort forty colonies about tour our from froll the smelter this spring but thy they soon loon commenced to droo droop and dl die faster tuter than In previous years rear It is III claimed that the use UH ot of Smoke consumers will obviate this de destruction and In view of the tact that n will 1111 also allo be greatly benefited bennt by the abatement ot of this It seems to lo us UI that some thing should be done lIone wintering we ish to la ray to our be that tt it they desire to succeed next season that they must mut t tithe ke good care ot of th their lr and build them UI In the spring protect them In every possible way y And see Belt to It that they get Upward to keep them and their combs dry for It they arc down air tight they will III sweat and become too weak to work and will surely lurly die As to dl among the Lee beer I have not the time to elaborate but will say that much honey Mn can be raved to our bee beo keepers keeper If they will Inform themselves particularly In I tills To this end we will short Iy issue all question on any subject with bee keeping will wUl be Cheerfully an wired |