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of the tact that the honey resources of Yeririont are not 

 made available in the proportion of one to one thousand. 

 A lengthy paper, read before this Board a year or two 

 ago, upon the sugar interest of Vermont, the second maple 

 sugar State of the Union, reports a year in the past, when 

 Vermont produced about nine and three-fourths millions of 

 pounds of nuiple sugar, or about one hundred pounds per 

 square mile, which is really something to be proud of. The 

 State of New York boasts of producing 25,000 pounds of 

 honey from a tract of twenty-five square miles, and the ter- 

 ritory not fully stocked. We are told, on the authority of the 

 editress of the Anerican Bee Jouimal^ — high authority 

 on all matters of bees and honey, — that the province of 

 Attica, in Greece, embracing forty -five square miles, kept 

 20,000 hives, which averaged thirty pounds per hive, or 

 13,320 pounds per square mile, for the whole province ; and, 

 on the same authority that the province of East Friesland, 

 lying contiguous to the North Sea, in Holland, and embrac- 

 ing 1,200 square miles, maintained, for a period of twenty 

 years, 2,000 colonies of bees per square mile ; the amount 

 of yield not given, but at the moderate estimate of twenty- 

 five pounds per hive, we have the enormous amount of 

 50,000 pounds per square mile, or nine hundred tons for a 

 township of six miles square, which would produce, at the 

 unheard-of price often cents per pound, $180,000 for a ter- 

 ritory of the size of one of our townships. 



Do you ask what those Dutchmen do with so much 

 honey ? They eat what they want and export the balance, 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of it coming to the 

 United States in a single year, as our statistics of commerce 



