stands and use the entire product at home. Many of them follow 

 primitive methods, and sell only broken honey. Manifestly it is 

 impossible to "get at" the average product per hive. Numerous 

 examples could be given of single hives that produced 200 pounds 

 of comb honey during the season; large apiaries could be named 

 from which honey was sold by the ton at the rate of J 00 or more 

 pounds per colony. Many small apiaries have done as well. 

 Unfortunately conditions were not favorable in all parts of the 

 State, and all bee-keepers are not equally skillful in handling bees. 



It is a low estimate to put the average production of surplus 

 honey at 20 pounds per colony, or a total of 1,500,000 pounds for 

 the State. For home use and for sale this honey was worth about 

 10 cents a pound, or $150,000. The value of the natural increase 

 by swarming is not far from $50,000. 



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Some Cater figures. 



F THE EDITOR thought it necessary to apologize for 

 anything in the foregoing article,* it might be for the item 

 "other counties" in the table and for the lack of accuracy 

 in the use of a few ■words that have particular meanings 

 to bee-keepers. But it is not worth ■while to apologize ; though it 

 may be worth while to remark in passing that the Working who 

 ■wrote the foregoing article was an amateur 

 bee-keeper, ■while the Working who writes this 

 is also an amateur, but not quite so amateurish. 

 The estimates given above were for the 

 end of the year J 900. They may be called 

 fairly intelligent guesses. In comparing them 

 with the eitimates of the Census, ^vhich follow, 

 it ■will be ■well to keep in mind the fact that the 

 Census estimate of the number of colonies ■was 

 for the first of June, 1900, and to remember 



*The article referred to was in the printer's hands 

 before the paragraphs under the heading, Some Later 

 Figures were written and before the Census bulletin was 

 examined. 



LEVI BOOTH, Denver. 

 Whose "Wife is the Bee-Keeper. 



