HONEYBEES AND HONEY PKODUCTION. 9 



observed in each succeeding year. The total increase since 

 1910 to the spring of 1917 appears to be not far from 10 per 

 cent. This growth has been largely within the ranks of the 

 professional honey producers, those making this a principal 

 business, rather than among the farmer beekeepers, not 

 fully represented in this estimate, who, for reasons men- 

 tioned later, quite possibly have less rather than more bees, 

 certainly so in many sections where bee diseases have 

 invaded new territory. 



Table II. — Honeybees: Per cent of total swarming, by months. 



State. 



Proportion of total annual increase of colonies in- 



March. April. May. June. July. August 



Maine 



New Hampshire. 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut... 



New York 



New Jersey. .. 

 Pennsylvania. 

 Delaware 



Maryland 



Virginia 



West Virginia. . 

 North Carolina. 

 South Carolina. 



Georgia. 

 Florida . 

 Ohio.... 

 Indiana. 

 lUinois. . 



Michigan.. 

 Wisconsin. 

 Minnesota. 



Iowa 



Missouri . . 



Per cent. 



Per cent. 



0.3 



.2 



5.1 



15.7 

 33.2 



North Dakota 



South Dakota 



Nebraska ; 



Kansas ' 



Kentucky. I 



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1.4 



1.0 

 .7 



1.7 

 3.9 

 1.0 

 12.2 



56.6 



50.1 

 38.8 



.7 

 2.5 



.2 



.5 



3.6 



Per cent. 

 7.3 

 9.7 

 5.8 

 20.8 

 5.0 



25.4 

 9.5 

 29.4 

 19.7 

 37.0 



45.4 

 45.7 

 26.2 

 49.6 

 35.9 



24.8 

 15.3 

 21.3 

 20.4 

 18.0 



3.9 

 5.5 

 4.5 

 10.7 

 26.7 



5.0 

 7.8 

 13.7 

 27.3 

 33.4 



Per cent. 

 50.1 

 48.5 

 59.2 

 47.1 

 80.0 



49.7 

 54.4 

 48.5 

 58.3 

 50.0 



42.0 

 39.3 

 45.5 

 30.6 

 2.4 



4.4 



8.8 

 55.1 

 59.0 

 68.5 



56.9 

 58.4 

 55.0 

 69.1 

 47.6 



51.6 

 44.1 

 51.2 

 46.9 

 5L9 



Per cent. 

 38.7 

 28.3 

 31.3 

 21.2 

 15.0 



21.7 

 28.5 

 11.8 

 15.8 

 8.0 



9.3 

 10.5 

 25.6 



6.9 



Per cent. 

 3.9 

 13.5 

 3.7 

 9.5 



2.6 

 1.8 

 20.6 

 15.2 

 19.0 



34.3 

 30.7 

 33.8 

 25.4 

 16.6 



36.7 

 35.1 

 27.7 

 17.4 

 11.4 



2.7 

 7.6 

 9.3 

 5.5 

 5.0 



1.6 

 .3 

 1.7 



.5 



2.4 

 2.1 

 2.3 

 2.9 

 4.3 



4.9 

 5.4 

 6.7 

 4.3 

 5.5 



6.7 

 13.0 

 7.4 

 7.5 

 2.6 



