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states "that not more than one-twentieth of the nectar se- 

 creted is saved." The value of honey bees in the United 

 States as agents of fruit pollenizers will probably never be 

 known, but it certainly could be placed at a high figure. 



The 1910 Census Report lists, in round numbers, 95,000 

 colonies of bees in Wisconsin valued at $360,000. These are 

 credited with an annual production of more than 2,150,000 

 pounds of honey and 55,000 pounds of beeswax, the valuation 

 of which exceeded |235,000. As this enumeration did not 

 include colonies kept in cities the total should have been at 

 least 150,000. A very conservative estimate of the present 



FIG. 2.— AN APIARY THAT WAS BUILT 

 ^ee culture and "follows" seve^llbeeTourSs ""^° '"' ''''"^ ''^^'^^' ^""^^ °° 



fnn^nn^n """^ production of our state would probably exceed 

 3,000,000 pounds. 



Italian Queens Imported in 1867 

 The history of beekeeping in Wisconsin has a close rela- 



"aTefln itv'r/'T^-'^^ °^ ""'' ^^^^"^^ - ^^e Uxlited 

 states. In 1867, Adam Grimm of Jefferson brought to Wis- 

 consin from the eastern states the recently invented (1851) 

 .angstroth movable frame hive with twenly I taUan queens! 



