Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-16 | Page 23 | Surplus Honey in Utah Shows Drop

SURPLUS HONEY IN UTAH SHOWS DROP A decrease of surplus Utah honey 1 on farms In tho stall- July 1 shown In a report made yesterday by Miner M Justin, statistician for the T'nltod Slates bureau of markets. rhc- surplus sur-plus Jul 1 was only three pounds to a colony. at; compart with four pounds lant year and a -Ix-pouml i-i i-i rngc. the report shows. The report says. The crop repprtlng board of I he bureau of agricultural economies announces an-nounces that on July 1 the average yield of surplus horK-v per colony throughout the I'nlteU Mates wis SO pounds. This compares with 23 7 Ij.st jear and an average slnso l j l b of 2.' ; pounds, "Nevada lt credited with 25 pounds per colony this year, while last year there was none and the average is only three pounds The condition of the colonies through th country July 1 was 1 3 2 per rent of normal, or 3.4 points above last year, in Utah condition is two poin'a lower than a year ago. being now 02 per cent ot normal Nevada condition is 7$ lorn-pared lorn-pared with 76 last season. ' Honey plants are In relatively poor condition in the Intermonn'.aln coon-try, coon-try, The figure for rtah N seven points below last year, and Neva-la is three polnU lower. i'reseni figures fig-ures are 88 and 82 per cent of normal, nor-mal, respectively For the entire Country bee pasture is about average at 83 S per cent of normal This is 5 2 points higher ihin last year.' oo-