| Show correspondence BEES IN THE TIME SOUTH I 1 washington co U ta T june ith 1883 10 editor deseret letos 1 A little more about bees in the south at minersville Miners ville beaver county few bees are kept and with unusual LOSS THIS SPRING the people of beaver city have mon more largely extended the science of beekeeping and have made it quite profitable they also complain of heliy heavy loss and that too since spring has bas v sa in at parowan farolan fa Pa rowan iron county one rf of the best bee districts in this part of tie the oti country oil gitry and which has made a decided success ic in bee culture with abunda abundant I 1 t t surplus we also heard beard great complaint complain ti of spring deaths among them a lettla mare more time to spare spart here than in the past we looked into U the cause mort more effectually and found it to be starvation one bee keeper at summit ml t has lost 20 swarms out of IL 28 brother william Mars derr derf has oll only three left out of a nice flourish iq apiary we visited one of the bestas bestial most successful keepers possessed i 4 50 swarms who has lost many but il bat near so great a proportion as others i we found cedar city in a similar cod con 1 havin having lost im meely at tiie fruit gloom bloom season brooding was in deuced largely and the unusually eart earl s spring ng br brought 0 great increase wha nha the honey h 0 ney flow ceased leaving barp families to support and the stores d 0 llone lione honey exhausted and not sufficient to be obtained talked from the vegetation to support them in such a case t thes ther skillful bee keeper supplies tie the i wants which Is easily done when the hives are properly constructed ad arf a very little expense and care will tf ej able them to continue on until a tf JV of honey shall come colu ewhen when they ts 0 take care of themselves and give tha keepers a bood and easy return oi 0 close examination it was asce that so great was the starvation of tit tie bees that that they bad eaten thel then young brood and driven their drones out of the nive which is often oft entha the thu cast case in time of scarcity not allowing tile tit idler to eat the he bread of the laborer la borer borei after the poor little industrious bees can find pasture they make good use usell of their time until their hives are completely filled up there are times when whan the honey flow is more abundant than at other seasons the seir city abeln being caused some times by croath while at other times it results from too much wet or too cool weather it is said that last year the hodey honey yield kield was very light lu in this district hence ence the cause of starvation tins this spring which mi might ht have been prevented re by care on the part of tee iee bee eee ree keepers pers A supply of combs of hong hone should be beat until spring to feed the tte starving bees by b exchanging chanIng ex them for jor empty ones and i y had this been adopted adorea hu huud hund hundreds u d reds of colonies of tees might have been saved that have been lost THE CONTRAST in the condition of bees was jemo jero artl arts ble when we passed over the rim kim of 0 the basin into our dixie III ili 1 less than half 4 a days drive we found bees with a surplus of honey one swarm had bad cast off two swarms and twenty fise five pounds of surplus honey we also found new potatoes add and an peas aas here on the santa clara river oil oa may while the day before we ve left starving bees and potatoes just emert the ground in stgeorge st george sister annie cannon woodbery bla baa fifty hives of bees and has takeo tateo over pounds of honey this year up to the first of june many other bee keepers are also doing well this season in incur our dixie washington six miles rowa from st george is wonderful world erful for beekeeping keeting and is tilie the best honey district we have ave discovered during our whole journey lourney the surrounding pasture is so 50 extensive the luskeet brush Is veny very vw abundant here also the great bee 0 plan plant tanda and a great variety of flowed and the climate Is so admirably adapted to the wintering of bees that scarcely any loss occurs we visited brothen brother brow oha ohn rices dices apiary apiary which are capable nf of curing secured ge in this is climate at east least adoo compounds pounds of honey with proper oare are brother wright lancaster has fortt forty colonies he being a carpenter t his own hives which are kiy uit neat and orderly and to add to belr beir beauty they are neatly arranged ulder mider his beautia beautiful ua vineyard as are also aiso brother prices cels the honey obtained tere dye is most excellent the comb very white and tempting but te tie market in this region is not en doura coura tod coD raging al 11 E STEVENSON DOINGS AND PROSPECTS IN CEDAR CEBAK FORT CEDAR FORT june fa 84 feldor deseret aces news yot sot long since since some person was kind enough to put a piece in your valuable piper meRtio mentioning ning cedar fort thinking prove interesting to some af ai fiur pour murnia many ny readers to know more about Js this out of the fhe the wry place we submit me following there are comparatively few lew people gho iho know where cedar fort is and we lid had begun to believe that our nearest neighbors ors had forgotten us our oar bishop brother ell bennett having bring business over at lehi chancell chanc chanced etl eti to me t the leader of the choir of that place brothers brother LS I 1 S gibbs and exuded an to him and the members of the choir to pay us a visit which was cordially accepted accordingly on the dinst they arrived we were somewhat surprised uthe number there being between 50 idd ind 75 73 persons all members of the choir a large majority of whom were ionne young ladies ladles under the dir digestion estion of the leader kider of the cedar fort choir brother jas clark dark they were all pro vid tided edwith with suitable accommodations after liter partaking ar taking of a bountiful bountis al repast provided provided by the good sisters of this place all hands repaired to the inn ing house where we were entertained until a late hour the gramme pro consisted of songs recitations stump stamp nd impromptu speeches violin exercises aises etc c also singing by the choirs te ppe md had a ivery advery enjoyable time they remained over oven overnight night and joined us in dur cur sunday exercises quite a number of althe ohp brethren and sisters of fairfield eair Fair neld were also present short speeches were the order of the day and quite a number of the brethren had the privilege of expressing themselves the speaking was animated and to the point A good spirit prevailed which is generally ene enc rally raily the case in meetings of this rond rand kind eind our prospect Is good for a bountiful grain hanest harvest han est esl cst nue vue we also have a fine prospect for of all kinds in abundance the late ate frost not having effected us as it did in other places the worms are not so plentiful plentie al here as in some other places in utah county ve we ascribe it partly to the diligence of the tte people and partly to the seclusion ithe the settlement yours verv very truly SiMS subscriber CRIDER park vallex VALLEY items box ELDER elber COUNTY U T june lith 1883 1885 detar deseret deseret N ems a few lines from this flour flou r isune settlement in the north aest part dutah territory above high water ark tark might not be be uninteresting to he ite many readers of your interesting fier gier I 1 pen tho th following I 1 iain lain am tol toi told d moe noe tere toe are nearly fifty families in this 1 they have lave a good day school sw f C L jac jackson son as their teacher sabbath school william ifrey superintendent E D tec tee kham wham ra Is the bishop ishop and 0 J row ar 4 and will william in godfrey his bis coun ars imar improvement ye mentis is the order of lay liy day here and many changes are ids tin ins made on my arrival here I 1 dd the bishop and his counselors out streets and blocks for the object being to get the mieto live closer together and build spine place tia sabbath meetings are unattended Matten deO and the people a appear pear tilted there is a saw mill run I 1 water power very busy fitting out lumber also a shingle ma kid bid me run ran by br horse power the owner told me he be had on hand oras cers teis for 1250 shingles and more if he cut t them lui lul there are some nice irek and frame houses already built vil ine ail more are being built nir sir mcandrew andrew laae lane me Is building a fine brick house thich lob ich when finished will be quite an to the place log huts hul s and tin rt roots are disappearing and giving mili jou tou JOB for more mor e comfortable homes chere mere are yet hundreds of acres of md farming arming land in this valley with ancient water if judiciously used nide hide are a gew yew few hindrances to the eding up of this place namely the into of a semiweekly semi weekly mall mail in place of ive kwe weekly ekly the monopolizing of the riter titer er the toe want of a store etc but bese tese thin things s will all be remedied in a tort alm the people here are quite i portable mor wor table tabie and in fn nearly every house vad had ad your most valuable paper the NEWS the crops are looking tell idil |
