The amount of cash represented in the business each year is — G9$b 



64,000 colonies bees at $5 $320,000 Hcprt- 



1,760,000 pounds honey at U cents 193,600 StMiA 



1,500 pounds beeswax at 25 cents 375 



Necessary supplies each year 48,000 



Making a grand total of $56 J ,975 



This, you see, does not include wages paid to hired help, which 

 is considerable, as many bee-keepers have so many bees that it 

 becomes necessary to have assistants. 



The prospects are not flattering. Each year in the last five the PrOSPCCtS 

 honey crop has grown less than the crop of the previous year, and 

 the price has dropped from eighteen cents per pound in J 877 to ten 

 cents in 1891. Foul brood is here, which will kill off some bees, 

 although I believe that it can and will be eradicated in a couple of 

 years. Grasshoppers may be worse next year than they have been 

 this, and we may have a law making it a misdemeanor to allow 

 sweet clover to grow on our farms; but notwithstanding all these 

 draw^backs I believe the business will increase and get more into the 

 hands of the specialists, and that honey can, and will be produced 

 for less money than it now is. 



Cater fiistory. 



|R. KNIGHT'S article brings the history of the bee- 

 keepers' industry down to the fall of 1892. There has 

 been growth during the years that followed — and some 

 rather remarkable changes. For example, Boulder 

 County, according to Mr. Knight's estimate, had 18,000 colonies; 

 in the fall of J900 Mr. Frank Rauchfuss and the Compiler of this 

 publication united in estimating the nnmber of bees in the State, and 

 gave Boulder County credit for having 6,000 colonies, while Arapahoe 

 was put at the head of the list with 7,000 colonies. 



In December, 1900, the writer of this prepared an article for the 

 New Year's edition of one of the Denver papers, setting forth in a 

 popular way the status of the bee industry at the end of what was 

 one of the most prosperous years for the bee-keepers of Colorado. 

 It seems worth while to reprint that article here, with no change 

 except the omission of a single unimportant paragraph. 



