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Show BEES AS MONEY MAKERS The onormous crop of honey produced o" the Pacific const last yeir, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, - should interest Logan people in this excellent ex-cellent money making plan, especially at a time when sugar is soaring in H.'ice and will probably never again come below ten cents. ' We .sec, too where old Era Meeker, one of the first men to migrate to the coast declares de-clares that one stand of bees is as. good, as the price of house cent to the ordinary family. He will be. remebered as the old follow who a few years ago drove an ox-team ox-team from Oregon to New York, retracing retrac-ing the trail he went ove): fifty years before be-fore wjth the same kind of a team. In fact, if was due to him more than to any other one man that interest was aroused in bees in all of our western states He says when he arrived on the coast he found no bees, and the natives knew nothing noth-ing about them. Then he sent back to New York fV a supply. They were sent to him by the Isthmus of Panama whole swarms of them and reached him safely. Then he took a few stands into Oregon, and today thousands of people are either enjoying honey made possible by Meeker's Meek-er's prseverance, or making hundreds of dollars keeping bees for commercial purposes. pur-poses. A hive of bees, or several hives, take up little room, require little attention and the upkeep is small compared with returns. In fact, bee keeping is a mighty fine investment in-vestment these days, so much so that we would advise everyone in this community to give this subject a little time and study. ft h ft |