Arizona republican. [volume], May 23, 1915, SALT RIVER VALLEY, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

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TJ1E ARIZONA JJHPUHLICAN SALT HIVElt VALLEY ED1TJOX. SUNDAY MOHXiNG, MAYT 23, 1915
Bees And Honey Are The Basis Of Arizona's Sweetest Industry
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Surprising Results From
Bees On Three Acre Ranch
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(By WILLIAM DONER.)
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u: w.- my vn ij-ai living frum
l n . n my Jlnvt- acre
111 tti. 'iImhi iiMrht. I have
.:.irn:s . f Im 'S. The initial ct
.-t..i. I i- ali.',t ?r..r,n and my
im i'ine in in v.ioh .taiiil runs
1 haw some liiws that
n-I Ik :i renewed in all the
is that I have bein working
r.i. .!-u u f my lies are
i'"fr I' 'hail strain anil of ;
i: ii isiri.ms variety. The life
K. ejit r is one of plenty of
ni".--i -i wiiii n is mit ;ooi-s
1 liii'i'i' al! my own hives am! fill
my brood combs and my honey
onibs with a complete she t of
f tuidation. which I wire in botn
'own and across the comli on ac
lount of the possibility tf its falling:
duiinn the extreme hot weather.
So far I have had srent suarss with
that metal. I n.ise but very little
section honey, giving all the efforts
of the colonies to raisin comb lur.ev
for extraction. I extract it myi-elf
and marketed either through the lo
cal association or local jobber. Thus
far it has made me a very good
living indeed, and there is profit in
the business even at a less rate than
honey is bringing now. On my three
acre patch, in addition to my bees,
I have an eighth of an acre of
Thompson Seediess Grapes and (t;ile
a number of fig trees, with Thomp
son Seedless Grapes selling ar 1 1-4
a pound, I made ?4 off tht't little
patch. The figs also sell -.veil and
tile trees yield well.
Kight here I want to diipess a
little and tell you Konielhir.a; of the
position of the bee in the l'fe of
atiy iigricult ural community. The
bee does not. as some people sup
pose, live entirely to make honey.
Honey making vith the industrious
little fellow is a by-product. The
whole purpose of the bee's lifo is to
fertilize flowers, so that with the
greater number of bees in the val'ey
there w ill be i greater prod'i li' e
ness of fertile plants. The bee car
ries the polon from flowr to flower
and makes it possible for tlef-e
flowers to reproduce in kind. Al' this
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being so. I hardly think we sive
(enough importance to the honey in
dustry and bee keeping in this com
munity. The. taxable valuation on
bees in Maricopa county alone is
about $t!5.000. which is more than i
that of .chickens and pn re than that !
of hogs. I thing, therefore, in view
of this that some; steps sh'Ui'd le
taken to provide a greater space for
display and appropriation for the
purposes of -.li.iphiy frora the iPtate
J Fair which is 1 eld here annually.
I And in this onn'?ctiou. I might say
that this wo'ild be a splendid ad
verisement for the valley, because it
would increase the interest in the
work. Increase the investment in the
business and thus increase the va!ti?
of all growing useful plants in the
valley.
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Members of the British parliament
cannot be arrested for debt during
sessions, or for forty days before or
after.
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WHERE A 'FEW OF THE 800,000,000 LIVE.
Salt River Valley bees are assessed at $65,000, and their record annual output, when extracted, filled 37 cars.
Alfalfa, orange -ird mesquite are the leading honey flavors.
Honey Produced Here Has No
Superior For Use On Table
CUTTING (JIJEEX FEED VOW SILACJK.
At the "Mountain View Dairy and Fruit Farm," whose owner. J. Stanley Howard, is a most successful breeder of
Registered Hoistein-Fr.esians.
(By WILLIAM LOSSING.)
In complying with your request, will
endeavor to partially state a few facts
concerning apiculture in Maricopa
county.
There are approximately 22,000 col
onies kept in Maricopa, county which
are owned and managed by their own
ers who are mostly up to date apicul
turists. The honey produced is excel
lent and much of it has no superior as
table honey and finds a ready sale at
top prices. It is mesquite and cat-claw
honey. Alfalfa honey is a light amber
and has no superior as a commercail
article used extensively in bakeries.
The number of carloads of honey
shipped rir.ge close to 33 per season
and usually leave about $2100.00 per
car cash to the producer.
lieeswax amounts to about 2 pounds
per case of honey produced in rough
figures 21O.0U0 pounds in an average
season.
There are 4",000 bees in a colony.
This multiplied by 20,000 colonics in
Maricopa county makes a grand total
of S00.000.000 bees.
The value of a colony depends much
on the hive a well as condition of the
same. Perhaps it would be fair to say
from $.".0() to $6."i0 per colony.
Price of honey for the last season has
been the lowest for 1ft years. Most of
it moved at 4 cents per pound. This
was caused largely by the Buropean
war. The highest price was T'-i cents
per pound. .
One more thought, am pleased to
F had the easier they were sold at a
little above the market price. By
buying grain in quantities I could
also make a saving. I now keep
just enough calves and young stock
on hand to clean up all surplus
green feed on the place.
About four or five years ago I
cleared up my last indebtedness and
what 1 have cleared up since that
time 1 have laid away for a rainy
day. Trusting that this article will
encourage someone starting under si
milar circumstances I remain.
Yours respectfully,
('. AV. AI.EXAXDKR, Tempo, .riz.
know that we are protected by a (strin
gent foul brood law, which guards our
industry against diseased bees being
shipped in our state, which would if
allowed to some in as wished would
ruin our industry. j
Furthermore in locating an apiary
one should be careful not to infringe on
the priority rights of others by locating
closer than one mile from said apiary, '
as in nine cases out of ten the priority j
apiaryint will succeed while the in- j
truder fails. i
One of the best methods is to buy the
established apiaryist out. There are
plenty of new irrigation projects being
opened in our fair state that will pro
vide localities for many more apiarys
without encroaching on old established ,
apiarists.
R. F. D. 3, Phornix, Ariz. j
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Poultry Lifts j
To Prosperity
(Continued from Page Six) j
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ther away from town. That I also t
paid out in about one year. During
this time I disposed of my hogs al- J
altogether, not because there was
no money in them, but because I ;
thought I could do better to apply ;
my time strictly to the hens and the 1
marketing of their product. I learned
during this time that the more eggs
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