DECEMBER 15, 1913 



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Flora Mclntyre in her working-costume. 



that a debt would be a lighter burden than 

 ill health. 



To make this tale complete I must state 

 that, when I came home with one more year 

 between me and graduation, I was com- 

 pelled by illness to take to my bed, on which 

 I remained two years, where, in fact, I h-Ave 

 spent half of the five years that have just 

 passed, and from which I now send this 

 little sketch. 



Ventura, Cal. 



BEEKEEPING IN OREGON 



BY H. P. WILSON 

 Entomologist Oregon Agricultural College 



With such data as we have at hand, it 

 would be impossible to estimate correctly 

 the status of beekeeping in Oregon. Many 

 farmers keep from one to several stands for 

 home use, and in all parts of the State one 

 may find from a few to many colonies that 

 not only furnish honey for tlie home but 

 also give a market surplus. 



In looking over the ^lAw secured in a 

 recent farm survey of this Stale, one might 

 be led to believe that most of our honey is 

 produced in southern Oregon ; but in that 

 it is misleading. The division known as 



central Oregon probably has the greater 

 number of large commercial apiaries, with 

 the Columbia Basin second and southern 

 Oregon third. These facts are not shown in 

 the survey, for the reason that it was taken 

 as a general farm survey, and it so happen- 

 ed that of the five or six commercial apiaries 

 in southern Oregon the largest happened to 

 be recorded. In the survey of central Ore- 

 gon it so happened that out of a dozen or 

 more commercial apiaries only two of medi- 

 um size were recorded. With these excep- 

 tions, other data at hand show that the 

 average arrived at is fairly representative 

 of existing conditions. 



The United States census for 1910 reports 

 one farm in every five as having bees; but 

 during the last two years the number of 

 colonies has increased, both in the number 

 of large apiaries and with the number on 

 small farms. A considerable increase is due 

 to the number secured by orchardists for 

 pollination purposes. 



With data on hand, and the figures from 

 the United States census for 1910, a distri- 

 bution map has been made which shows 

 some very interesting data. Each figure 

 represents 1000 colonies, showing an ap- 

 proximate total of 50,000 colonies with a 

 value of $250,000. The writer believes that, 



