| Show correspondence I 1 1 l ABOUT been BEKS ann AND SALT silt LAKE CITY august 13 13 1 8 editor deseret bios cios As the bee season is advancing I 1 wili wilt advance a few more items av iy the bee interests and compare notes noted as to tha thih progress of myown my own bee farm I 1 have chant taken pains to watch the moves of my C colonies and selected one of my lead in ing ins hives as an indicator f for or the rest and wil wll a statement of the nu num m ber of pounds taken and dates of extracting tr which will give the variations of the season reason and expect to do so during the season carefully weighing the honey extracted each time up to yesterday the result with this observation hive is as follows june 1883 1885 t 45 lbs ibs july 3 3 TO 70 lbs ibs july 8 40 ibs lbs july 14 55 lbs ibs july 25 GO 60 ibs july 30 50 lbs ibs august 10 50 lbs ibs august 14 27 ibs lbs total lbs iba the most in one day days work bein being 10 ibs lbs and it will be seen bythe by the last that in four days lbs ibs were ready less than 7 lb ibs lbs per day the fore part of this week after the rain honey in tiie the field was scarce as was very apparent to many of the bee ma masters the bees being bing eager to rob honey while working 1 with much so that some had to tol toj cease to e extract from my lay apiary I 1 have taken in all this season ibs beginning ginnia I 1 with 46 hives and have increased zed ted them to upwards of TO 70 swarms I 1 my aly absence from ho home homa meon on a mission last year reduced reduce d my colonies which is not unco uncommon under such circumstances as bees must have attention us is well as all other branches of business or they will not pay good returns this in most localities has been a very profitable season for bee keepers brother george bailey of mill aree creek told me last yeek week that he ife had already taken AIM ail pounds of honey with the aid of his son and wife who by the way is very efficient and more than thad equal in the business to most men brother sam samuel uel mckay has also taken out about pounds of honey the market for honey is very slack at present but it will keep for a long while and do to lay up for a time of 01 famine E steves STEVEN STEVENSON SONT |
