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Department of Agkicultuke 



Status of Beekeeping in the State of ]^ew York According 



TO THE Census of 1910* 



No. colonies 

 Counties of bees 



Albany 3, 035 



Allegany 5,620 



Broome . . . . 

 Cattaraugus 

 Cayuga .... 

 Cliautauqua 

 Clicmung . . . 

 Chenango . . 

 Clinton .... 

 Columbia . . , 

 Cortland . . . 

 Delaware . . . 

 Dutchess . . . 



Erie 



Essex 



Franklin . . . 



Fulton 



Genesee . . . . 



Greene 



Hamilton . . . 

 Herkimer . . 

 Jefferson . . . 



Kings 



Lewis 



8, 312 

 4. 927 

 4. 78!) 



3. 680 

 2,240 

 2,598 

 1,829 

 2. 055 

 2, 524 



4, 546 

 2,070 

 5,195 



1, 035 

 1.087 

 1.265 



2. 339 

 2,244 



248 

 2. 179 

 4. 574 

 12 

 1,026 

 Livingston 3. 700 



Madison . . . 

 Monroe . . . . 

 Montgomery 

 Nassau . . . . 

 New York . . 

 Niagara ... 

 Oneida .... 



2.753 

 2, 724 

 3,615 

 207 

 2 

 2,837 

 3,324 



Value in 



dollars 



$12,206 



21.606 



12. 985 



19,029 



20,477 



14. 745 



7.087 



11,540 



6, 546 



9,067 



9,830 



20.481 



9.811 



20.861 



4.753 



4,937 



5,372 



9.717 



9,574 



1,491 



10.758 



22,088 



70 



3,709 



14. 141 



10.201 



12. 797 



15,234 



1,377 



5 



13,211 



12,966 



Counties 

 Onondaga . . 

 Ontario . . . . 

 Orange . . . . 

 Orleans . . . . 



Oswego 



Otsego 



Putnam 



Queens 



Rensselaer . . , 

 Richmond . . . 

 Rockland . . . , 

 St. Lawrence 

 Saratoga . . . . 

 Schenectady 

 Schoharie . . . 

 Schuyler ... 



Seneca 



Steuben . . . . , 



Suffolk 



Sullivan . . . , 



Tioga 



Tompkins . . 



Ulster 



Warren .... 

 Washington 



Wayne 



Westchester 

 Wyoming . . 

 Yates 



No. colonies 



of bees 



3. 979 



4.091 



1.906 



1,703 



2.602 



2.071 



366 



14 



2.220 



295 



443 



5, 369 



1.835 



1.431 



C. 133 



1 , 929 

 3. 084 

 7,576 



111 



2. 570 

 2,820 

 4,530 

 2,735 



816 

 2,890 



2. 433 

 1,090 



3, 579 

 2, 142 



Value in 



dollars 



17,591 



16.392 



9,534 



6.713 



9.572 



9. 508 



1.671 



130 



9. 496 



2,066 



2. 252 



23.474 



8,208 



5. 939 



23.318 



5. 542 



15,189 



23. 074 



654 



12,865 



9. 828 



14.681 



14,278 



4,912 



11,898 



9. 946 



6,723 



15,223 



7,439 



Total 156. 360 !j!646, 848 



Honey and Wax, 1909. Although as noted elsewhere, 15,259 

 farms reported 15G,3G0 colonies of bees on hand April 15, 1910, 

 4,8G3 of these farms, with 1G,829 colonies on hand April 15, 1910 

 made no report of honey or wax produced in 1909. The actnal 

 returns show the production of 3,191,733 pounds of honey, valued 

 at $37G,G08 and 43,198 pounds of wax, valued at $13,034; the 

 true totals are douhtless somewhat above these figures. 



Taken from Report of the Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. 



