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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 CaroUna, 

 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. 



State. 



Number of colonies 

 of bees on farms 

 (United States 

 census). 



June 1, 

 1900. 



Apr. 15, 

 1910. 



1914 

 com- 

 pared 

 with 

 the 

 usual 

 number 

 LQ pre- 

 vious 

 years. 



Spring count of colonies, year stated, in per 

 cent of previous year. (Report May 1.) 



1914 

 com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1913. 



1915 

 com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1914. 



1916 

 com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1916. 



1917 

 com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1916. 



1918 

 com- 

 pared 

 with 

 1917. 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Ehode Island 



Connecticut 



New York ". 



New Jersey 



Peimsylvania 



Delaware 



Maryland 



District of Columbia 



Virginia 



West Vu-ginia 



North Carolina 



South Carolina 



Georgia 



Florida 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Number. 



10, 857 

 5,520 



12,836 

 8,381 

 1,681 



11,438 



187, 208 

 14, 118 



101,670 

 10, 187 



28,013 

 69 

 139, 064 

 111,417 

 244, 539 



93,958 



187, 919 

 39,753 

 161,391 

 117, 148 

 179,953 



Number. 

 7,592 

 4,644 

 10, 216 

 7,464 

 1,267 



9,445 

 166, 360 

 10,484 

 124,815 



6,410 



23,166 

 151 

 104,005 

 110, 673 

 189, 178 



76,422 



130,649 

 38,895 

 98,242 

 80, 938 



155,846 



Per 

 cent. 



94 

 98 

 95 

 99 



85 

 102 

 100 



95 

 100 



Per 

 cent. 



99 



96 



98 



96 



99 



92 

 103 

 103 



98 

 101 



100 



Per 

 cent. 



100 



103 



96 



101 



100 



no 



90 



Per 

 cent. 



107 



100 



115 



115 



105 



85 

 109 



90 

 100 

 103 



97 



Per 



cent. 



106 

 115 

 105 

 106 

 105 



112 

 110 

 106 

 110 

 96 



Per 



cent. 



85 

 85 

 75 

 70 

 95 



73 

 65 

 86 



70 



101 

 100 



95 

 101 

 105 

 110 



97 



100 

 101 

 103 

 100 



103 

 108 

 115 

 100 



106 

 95 

 102 

 101 



100 

 100 

 98 

 90 

 92 



100 

 102 

 94 

 100 



98 

 100 



98 

 102 

 105 



100 

 100 



108 

 112 

 118 



77 

 75 



1-.0 

 115 

 65 

 70 



80 



