Show the THE BE gums mums oven cven tion TION la CITY april loth 1833 editor ediar the tho territorial Beekeeper keepers a con v at the council ir cute salt lake april bul bui at 7 pm pah PAs Ident A eai K presiding preal prebi dine dins wl Prayer lva yra offered aby wr mr franklin frankiin lin r of severe bevere Cou faly iun lun tes tes ies of the pr evlona sleeting rde eting were ad and approved steven n end and egan committee appointed appoint at last meeting to prepare ban blanhe to be filled out by branch associations reported that they had printed one thousand and distributed mommo momme of them the report was accepted and aud the committee discharged some reports from various were read spanish fork was by mr chas chaa monk who woo gald gaid sald said that there are 32 beo bee keepers and of bees in that place probably 60 swarms not reported they thoy h ey have taken pounds of alney honey and pounds beeswax bee losses ses sea during winter winte rare are ISS swarms all wintered on summer bummer stands elands mr henry wagner warner of sail sald lake city has haa 43 stand stands and has taken pounds of honey 10 pounds bae and pounds honey in comb no losses jens olson oleon and B judhon salt lake nike county havo 48 bolon colonies le and have taken 2000 pounds honey wintered on summer bummer stands with no losses henry lake nike county has 10 have hag has taken pounds honey 6 5 pounds beeswax and 60 50 pounds honey in the comb mr 0 conoly of bf box elder re ports colonies of bees bm in that county losses during win terp 10 swarms affected by foul brood broad 11 could not report in full he had after eales cales last fall 73 swarms has has bas now 67 57 lost 4 from starvation he wintered successfully in chaff hives with upper ventilation ho liscs uses two etory hives by ventilation he prevents dampness and mould also sour honey thus keeping ery try and procuring healthy colonies col coi onlea bevier bevien county was represented by mr franklin spencer spencor he said that mr thurber had five nive swarms and mr martin four all ot of which died during the winter mr van luvin juvin has ten or twelve although J feet above sen sea level the people hope tomake to maka make a success of this important industry mrs helena madsen reports five bee beekeeper keepers a with good prospects in gunnison eari earr sanpete pete county ulah utah county waa represented by mr harjey M driggs president ol of payson branch association he says that there are swarms of bees in that county losses during last rast winter mostly wintered on summer stands he believes the weak swarms and small stores tores are the causes of such heavy cosec wm leary jr of harrisburg war Bar southern utah writes that he and mr 0 B adams are trying todo to do something in the bee business he started one year ago with ten swarms in old fashioned hives the cracks ot of which were calked balked with rags ete etc and has haa taken ibo iba ib of honert honey although it has been the severe bevere severest winter for twenty years the bees have been beem flying almost every week and mr adams had a swarm come of in january he hived dived them a and nd they lived ved vice mckay said baid that he had lost 17 swarms during the winter he has at 95 he had discovered no foul brood and thinks that when discovered it should be immediately destroyed mr T W lee said eaid that bees are doing well in bobele inTo oele county by a vota yo to tf of th the 6 convention he was au to organize a branch association cia cla tion in grantsville Grants ville thoele tooele coun ty mr C 0 foi Fol folkman kinan of plain city weber county said that they increase crea beth seth ir bees by natural swarming g do not use the extractor extrac extractor toD tog and doin doing g well at the business mr william egan of salt lake Co county tinty had four foor swarms last laet tall tail has hab lost logt three thinks that if from now on a frame of honey be given to weak weaks swarms warme that it will seimu late them to brooding account of the secretary being unable to attend T W lee neo acted as term temm convention adjourned sine eine die enward edwand STEVENSON secretary |