BULLETIN 



U. S, DEPARTMENT OP AGEICULTUEE. 



different States has been full or incomplete. For most of 

 the States data are fairly complete, and for the important 

 producing States of California, Texas, Colorado, all of the 

 North Central group except North Dakota and most of the 

 Central Atlantic and North Atlantic groups they are good, 

 particularly for the years 1916 and 1917. From the States 

 of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware, North CaroHna, 

 South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 

 Kentucky, North Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 Utah, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon responses have been 

 relatively few and the figures given are therefore to be 

 accepted with reserve. 



Table I. — Honeybees in the United States. 





Number of colonies 

 of bees on farms 

 (United States 

 census). 



Spring count of colonies, year stated, in per 

 cent of previous year. (Report May 1.) 









1914 













State. 







com- 

 pared 

 with 

 the 

 usual 

 number 

 in pre- 



1914 



1915 



1916 



1917 



1918 





June 1, 

 1900. 



Apr. 15, 

 1910. 



com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1913. 



com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1914. 



com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1915. 



com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1916. 



com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1917. 









vious 



















years. 















Number. 



Number. 



Per 



cent. 



Per 



cent. 



Per 



cent. 



Per 



cent. 



Per 

 cent. 



Per 



cent. 





10,857 

 5,620 



7,592 

 4,644 



98 



99 



100 



107 



106 



85 



New Hampshire 



94 



96 



103 



100 



115 



85 



Vermont 



12,836 



10, 215 



98 



98. 



96 



115 



105 



75 





8,381 

 1,681 



11,438 



187,208 



14, 118 



7,464 

 1,267 



9,445 

 156, 360 

 10, 484 



95 

 99 



85 

 102 



96 

 99 



92 

 103 



101 

 100 



110 

 90 



115 

 105 



85 

 109 



106 

 105 



112 

 110 



70 





95 



Connecticut 



75 



New York 



80 



New Jersey 



100 



103 



98 



90 



106 



73 





161, 670 



124,815 

 6,410 



23, 156 



95 



98 



96 



100 



110 



65 



Delaware 



10, 187 



28,013 

 59 



100 

 96 



101 

 100 



98 

 102 



103 

 97 



95 

 108 



85 



Maryland 



70 



District of Columbia . . 



151 















Virginia 



139,064 

 111,417 



104, 005 



98 



100 



106 



100 



100 



77 



West Virginia 



110,673 

 189, 178 



99 



101 



95 



102 



100 



75 



North Carolina 



244, 539 



101 



103 



102 



94 



96 



88 



South Carolina 



93,958 



75,422 



100 



100 



101 



100 



100 



115 



Georgia 



187,919 

 39, 753 



130, 549 



95 



98 



100 



98 



110 



1-0 



Florida 



38,895 



101 



103 



100 



100 



96 



115 



Ohio 



151,391 

 117, 148 

 179, 953 



98,242 

 80,938 

 155,846 



105 

 110 

 97 



108 

 115 

 100 



98 

 90 

 92 



98 

 102 

 105 



108 

 112 

 118 



65 



Indiana 



70 



Illinois 



SO 



