| Show A WONDER WONDERFUL eul euh COUNTRY A LAND FLOWING WITH AND otner OTHER THINGS LN IN TEMPI arizona oct editor deseret mews news you say through issue of the in reporting a bee meeting 11 let us hear from arizona awain aaen 11 etc tc but first I 1 wish to explain or correct brother bee report from mesa city about the first of april last I 1 imported from california 7 TO 0 swarms of bees 25 5 of which were paid for by the citizens 0 of f mesa on their thein arrival about two thirds of the bees were dead I 1 kept all in ill my care until the tart firt of june when all the hives hivey by careful manipulation were awain again well tilled filled with bees and so had fulls to arlve rive to those who had paid for them m but brother D 1 bagley bagbey did not obtain his bees from froin me as he had preciou lowdy y imported them than our bees nere were laid down at maricola maricopa marn mann copa station it at a little less thai seven dollars per hive from our 45 41 stands of bees we wd extracted not less than TWO TONS OF lioney and multiplied them into swarms which we found to be very bad had policy arwe as we were nyer enot not able to provide tight hives and it beill belm the dearth sea headon s oli uld wd not being aate able abie to ulve sive them the bare care needed no less than 50 of the weakest sea vea kimt coi cof colonies onles onies we were re destroyed by bee hee moth had they been kept it at the tiie number of aboul about loo swarms we could have easily attained four tons 0 of f honey in all tile tiie year previous it 31 C T and myself had together sent for ten tei 1 colonies the results from which have been about the same as those already described they forming formin 11 another apiary but to show more fully tiie tile possibilities or OF TIIE tile BUSY nee bew in this listin sun kissed land I 1 will state that about the first of last las t april I 1 sold to doctor grew greg gregg of this place one lh light lit swarm of bees end and today to day I 1 asked him mill for sor ford sord a report of results lie lle told me that ot the one swarm there was now nol v in hives 14 and that two swarms bad absconded making 10 ld lo 16 in all and goo COO pounds of honey had been extracted and that he h 0 should take still more as his bees were yet laying in irr honey of the truth of ff ills his statement I 1 have no doubt and I 1 think hink it a little ahead of anything published as results from the bee but the bee is not the only marvel of increase in this land of almost con coll bitaut stunt spring and sumi summer sumiller tier fier I 1 llave hase just com jome from efrom MEASURING A FIG trel thel one of nearly a hundred that I 1 put out as cuttings not 20 10 months since it is 10 feet high and near to 10 reet teet through the limbs and five inch inches in diameter of wood at the tho surface of 0 the ground and now ripening its third crop ol 01 of f fruit rait I 1 also found many trees lil lii lil lii my nursery f from roul peach pits planted the past sprine spring over nine fee feel thigh high and grape vines irom from cuttings cutting gs planted the spring miring previous have produced as high as 35 or more inore pounds of bf fruit could you take a LOOK AT tue THE FLOWERS in front of my door you would see nearly fifty oleanders that were cuttings the past sprin aprin i and now some of them are tive nive feet high and bowed down with the weight of their loveliness oil on some of them I 1 counted 15 large festoons fes of flowers an and d then the pom rom pomegranates put out at the same time have also aiso been in bloom and will vill produce u ce f fruit ruit another season and the 1611 olive also which is lonin long iong starting from cuttings is already ven ver dver three feet high but all this is more than you yon ou have askeland aske dand perhaps more than you will thank me for so I 1 will just f urther further say that I 1 BOTH noth POLITICAL PARTIES are arc now getting off their heaviest figurative guns and as the mormons cormons Mor mons are supposed to bo be democrats clemice ats they come in for the republican heaviest shots of course are helln heing hunted for and men who are so morally and physically rotten that they require a bandage to hold them together are the ones here and elsewhere who arc are howling howlin g themselves hoarse about mormon corruptions corrupt ions quite a number damber of the citizens of mesa niesa have been indicted by the grand jury and h hase have given bonds among them thel nare are arc brothers Stewart phelps and wll wil son and I 1 1 think the end is not yet it is a time ot 61 general health and peace with comparative prosperity in this stake with kind remembrance of my old bid friends in utah yours truly B F |
