Show of bee inspector EDITOR journal I 1 thought it would be interesting to the bee bce of cache county to know something eom com ething in ill regards to my labors in their i interest as bee inspector I 1 found 0 6 cases of foul brood 9 2 in logan 2 in richmond arid and 3 2 in ill providence which were destroyed I 1 found that the worst decrease in tin tho county was foul there ih 6 not avor one dozen scientific b bec ee keep ers in tile the county it there is ia that many there is ia but eight extractors in the county oun ty all the rest lest produce strained honey the general idea beems to bp be that when a nian man g gi ts a hive lii e of bees lie experts expects them to find him ill tile the honey that hi acif and family can eat and ana then take lake care of themselves elves now beer lire are bome of the cleanest and most moet particular things in the world they love to he be in the tha woods and amons among the trees and flowers then how must they feel to be put on top of one another clo close se together and that too beside some stink inkin hog pen a cow cov shed in fact anywhere where out of the way arid and then kill I 1 half alf of thern them in taking away their honey or robbing thern them as they call it robbing sure enough I 1 should call and nd this is ia the these general state oi kee keep fiig ill in the county there is about 2101 2164 stands stEnd of bees in the county distributed as follows T toan i 64 f greenville re enville 92 hyde park 8 86 6 smithfield I 1 richmond ISO hyrum wellsville mendon 70 paradise providence milleville millville Mill ville Cov evile 60 80 lewiston L wiston I 1 63 newton 01 61 clarkston 15 the yield of honey per colony is about one half or not over 25 pounds the increase is the smallest ever known and is not over ten per cent the reason was because of the litte late spring g DEAR dealt SIR grit Ls As many bee keepers during du in my visit through the valley thih thib summer have requested me to give them thein some information in regard to handling bees properly I 1 think the best beet way that I 1 can do will be to give my iny ovi gaii it with bees if it will not be to much upon our valuable space sly arst e experience x peri ence commenced eight deais years a ago 0 with avith one swarm in a box boa comfor commonly y called a bee hive they ought to nanie name them bee killer the hive aro are made in two parts the bottom par pai t in the broad char chamber riber and the the top for the bees to deposit their surplus lioney honey this top pi part rt is n nailed ai led toge together t her so sol I 1 id to I 1 that hat wb when e it you want baut to take tire the lioney honey from tile them you have to use an iron bar to arv tin the top lop off and when I 1 had done this I 1 hall had par pai t tot of the honey in the top iop that need take off and pari part of the bottom and this in the of a hot day dinv inv the result was that halt half the bees were drown in tire melting honey and your humble servant a e almost brownd dro and with something elso elsa and I 1 e can n asure you that afelt I 1 felt dam it all oer ner 1 beli believe evel I 1 did say sav what did the d fools nail the top on f for or so that the tha bees could not get out it if they wanted too jand A lid two iwo thirds of fill all the havea in cache county comity today are twit that kind no wonder tha t a man would rather go to tire the canyon and get a load of fire wood than to take the honey from a hive of beeg I 1 rame to the conclusion causion that if that was beekeeping bee keeping I 1 had had enough of it for it took my wife v ife at nil I 1 day to et dt tire dead bees out of the honey to be cont continued bitted |