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time to become fully familiar with the business iu all its details 

 as they would expect to do iu other lines. 



The value of the preseuee of large numbers of bees to orchards 

 and gardens in pollenating the blossoms cannot be overestimated, 

 so that the value of the industry cannot be measured by the honey 

 production alone. 



Unfortunately for the bee keeping industry no statistics were 

 gathered by the census bureau relating to bees and hive products 

 excepting those kept on farms of three acres or more in extent. 

 A large portion of Iowa's most successful bee keepers live in the 

 towns and were not enumerated. This being the case probably 

 not more than seventy-five per cent of the actual number of 

 colonies were shown by these figures. The following table shows 

 the number of colonies in each county as reported by the census 

 of 1910. 



Adair 1,598 



Adams 1,156 



Allamakee 1,840 



Appanoose 2,735 



Audubon 1,088 



Benton 2,281 



Black Hawk 1,707 



Boone 2,035 



Bremer 1,688 



Buchanan 1,631 



Buena Vista 1,104 



Butler 1,904 



Calhoun 1,190 



Carroll 1,218 



Cass 1,899 



Cedar 2,948 



Cerro Gordo 1,391 



Cherokee 1,332 



Chickasaw 1,065 



Clarke 1,440 



Clay 1,025 



Clayton 3,079 



Clinton 4,189 



Crawford 1,570 



Dallas 1,799 



Davis 3,086 



Decatur 1,968 



Delaware , . 1,771 



Des Moines 1,309 



Dickinson 377 



Dubuque 1,721 



Emmet 428 



Fayette 2,615 



Floyd 1,037 



Franklin 1,200 



Fremont 792 



Greene 1,162 



Grundy 874 



Guthrie 1,104 



Hamilton 1,593 



Hancock 725 



Hardin 1,496 



Harrison 1,473 



Henry 1,806 



Howard 924 



Humboldt 823 



Ida 1,251 



Iowa 1,708 



Jackson 2,186 



Jasper 2,835 



Jefferson 1,854 



Johnson 1,882 



Jones 1,860 



Keokuk 2,758 



Kossuth 815 



Lee 2,362 



Linn 2,613 



Louisa 1,850 



Lucas 1,715 



Lyon 433 



Madison 2,288 



Mahaska 2,787 



