now has 73 members. In September of same year the Weld County 

 Bee-Keepers' Association was organized at Greeley, with D. S. Beal, 

 President, H. E. English, Secretary. This association numbers 60 

 members. 



All of these associatioris are in a thriving condition, and ere 

 another year rolls around as many more w^ill be formed. 



GOlOnkS in This is a difficult problem, but after getting statistics from 



Colorado assessors, and county inspectors and from correspondence with bee- 

 keepers, the number can safely be put at 64,000 

 colonies. Boulder County leads them all with 

 18,000 hives. Of these bees it can be said 

 that fully four-fifths are in moveable frame 

 hives. One fourth are ow^ned by specialists 

 and another fourth by semi-specialists, and 

 one-half are in the hands of farmers that only 

 about half take care of them. The last named 

 get only comb honey and average from nothing 

 to thirty pounds per colony, and save about 

 one-tenth of the increase. Those making a 

 specialty of the business get from 50 to 150 

 pounds section honey or 75 to 200 pounds 

 extracted in the average season. The past 

 season (1892) is the poorest in the history of 

 bee-keeping in the State, and the average yield 

 will be very low. 



Placing the honey production at 

 l)On(y sixty pounds per colony wth the 



Produced specialist, thirty pounds with the 

 semi-specialist, and ten pounds by 

 the farmer bee-keeper, which I think a fair 

 estimate, would make a honey crop of 1,760,000 pounds. The aver- 

 age price of which has been about eleven cents per pound, making 

 the honey crop worth $193,600 per year, J892 not taken into con- 

 sideration, as there is not one-fourth of a crop. 



The amount of wax saved by bee-keepers is very small as so 

 many of them throw all scraps away; but nevertheless about fifteen 

 hundred pounds is put onto the market each year in this State, the 

 price of which is twenty-five cents, or $375 on the yearly crop. 

 Tliis amount could be greatly increased by the saving of all scrap- 

 ings and scraps of wax. 



MRS. RACHEL A. RHODES 



Fort Lupton. 



Treasurer State Association. 



Beeswax 



