Show HONEY BeesA bees ml cared for are profitable MANTI sanpete county august 30 1888 editor deseret news 11 very little litle has been said about Tees or honey of late there is an old saying anything far brought and dear bought is of high esteem and eagerly sought we have seen seea the time when honey tar far brought from california was I 1 sought and bought I 1 at the enormous price of 1 per pound we have paid that price tor for it for medicinal purposes after a time it was reduced to 75 cents then to 50 cents and so on down to the low price of from 6 to 8 cents per pound at which price it now goes begging not because it has depreciated in its medicinal healthful and life giving qualities but it has become so cheap and easily got my advice to Deek beekeepers bee keepers is to store up their honey it w will egers I 1 not spoil as it soon becomes candied and solid I 1 have a pound can and a 6 00 pound barrel three years old the contents content 8 of which are solid honey may be congealed in large wooden tanks made tight we may see the time here when it it will bring 50 cents per pound and wheat 5 a bushel tomake to make bread to spread the honey upon utah has become one of the best ot of honey fields and I 1 fear from the carelessness of so many who pretend to keep bees but sadly y neglect them that there will be criminal acs ac s count ability connected with bee keep in ing lay many lack under understanding stan ding concerning the WINTERING OF BEES which Is one of the greatest arts in the science of bee farming I 1 was lately conversing with one ot of the oldest bee keepers of utah who is now becoming converted to a different mode of wintering since last winters loss of swarms out of you well know he said to me how I 1 make my hives tight neat and like ilke a palace but here are braithwaite brothers who have hives of bees and lose none at all in wintering and they simply nail rough boards together list last january said william braithwaite 1 I 1 felt alarmed about my dees bees when the thermometer ran down to 40 1 I got up in the night ran my hand down through the chaff next to the cloth which covered my bees they rhey were warm and dry I 1 retired my care and anxiety were calmed 1 have not lost any bees wintering for the past ten years and it if I 1 had not sold many ot of w my bees my lot would not hold them the process of wintering with success is using chaff as an absorber of moisture or sweat from the bees in a close hive with ft scarcely arcely an any ventilation the sweat becomes co condensed need and as a consequence frost and even ice forms in the hive which is made to contain a frozen lot of bees with a large supply of frozen hooey honey on hand brother braithwaite raith walte adopted the plan of covering his bis bees with muslin gunny sack or something of the sort then he put five or six inches of chaff over them and also some chaff around the sides and back of the hives and he be has learned to have no tears fears of the coldest weather he makes a hole bole in the hive and cloth end puts a small piece of wire cloth over it so ao as to prevent the chaff from passing down among the bees now it if this plan is adopted and foul brood is kept down we will be able to ship our honey to england with good success when railroad competition becomes bezemes what it soon will as honey in england brings at retail from 24 to 36 cents a pound now we will conclude this article on sweet by giving some facts relative to one hive of our own make in 1885 containing 23 frames 9 in the lower story and 14 in the upper story the extraction was almost almos aper exclusively from the upper story the amounts of honey extracted were as follows june 25 45 pounds july 3 70 july 8 40 july 14 55 july 23 60 july 30 50 aug 10 50 aug 14 27 j aug 27 2526 26 sept 16 21 sept 2412 total pounds worth at that time 10 cents per pound making realized from one hive now are not ades worth as good care as a frugal husbandman gives his bis horse berse cow and other useful animals animal s why should we neglect our usef useful ul 66 deseret 11 or honeybee honey bee it was carefully introduced into america by the Jared ites when they came over the great waters in barges hundred of years before the coming of our savior let us bee keepers thinks of these things and reform in wintering bees just juat consider the thousands of swarms sacrificed to cold frozen weather ES |