Show HALF MILLION DOLLARS FOR THIS YEARS YEAR'S HONEY Duchesne and Uintah Counties Will Produce Approximately Cans One Cans One Man Claims Pounds From One Colony All AU previous estimates made by this paper as to the Uintah basin honey output for the year are 1 by crt withdrawn to to- to tho the lellOn they are arc too conservative In Duchesne and Uintah counties there are approximately OOOO colonies of bees The average output output output out out- put will be two cans to the tho colony or a 11 total of ot cans and the I average price will be 12 per can Forty thousand cans of honey huney at 12 per can would be bo Nearly half a million dollars for the honey output of this basin Is a big Item It has been but a few Cew years the colonies of bees In the entire entire entire en en- tire Uintah basin was not more than and the output of ot honey at about 3 a can amounted to about Some wonderful yields of ot honey have been reported this year Will Harvey of or claims to have one colony which up to date has produced produced pro pro- produced pounds This colony Is In an frame 11 L hive The aver aver- age hive has eight frames The record rec reo- ord output so far as an has been heard of ot In the United States was 1000 1008 pounds so Harvey is Js not so far behind behind behind be be- hind the record Bee men claim that there is pee paa- turo ture enough in the Uintah basin fol fot four times as many bees That would mean approximately 2000 2900 for honey and would make the wool output appear Insignificant In is comparison If the government does not take a hand in fixing the price of honey there Is ia no telling where It will go There Is a chance that there will wUl be government regulation In the meantime meantime meantime mean mean- time bee hee men are making from 26 5 up on each hive There Is an advertisement ad ad- I in this issue which offers offers of ot- fers Cers bees at 20 per colony Perhaps Perhaps Per r haps the owner has a hunch hunch that Uncle Sam will put his foot dowa down on these high honey prices and If q willing to sell at reasonable figures figure If Ir the present prices should prevail even another year ear there Is a barg bargain Jn according to our way of figuring p I |