I 1 THE BEE-KEEPING INDUSTRY. 



been organized and conducted with enthusiasm. Not only is the con- 

 sumption of honey greatly increased at home, but a large foreign trade 

 in this article has sprung up which is checked only by the lack of supply. 

 Thousands all through the land are awaking to this source of revenue 

 otherwise wasted around them. There is great probability that ere long 

 the market will be supplied with a superior article of sugar, made 

 from honey, besides its use directly in its natural state. Already the 

 honey statistics of our country are enormous. Bees were first introduc- 

 ed "west of the Rocky Mountains in 1853. Within these twenty-five 

 years the name California has become associated with immense quanti- 

 ties of honey. Mr. J. S. Harbison reached New York, in 1876, with 

 his great shipment of honey, produced in his six apiaries in San Diego 

 county, California. This shipment consisted of ten car loads, each 

 containing 20,000 pounds, or 200,000 in all. In Los Angelos county 

 wc are told that there are not less than 200 apiaries, and over 12,000 

 hives, from which over 500,000 pounds of surplus honey are taken an- 

 nually. The income of Mr. J, S. Harbison, derived from honey alone, 

 is said to be more than $25,000 per annum, over and above all expenses. 

 In the State of New York, Captain J. E. Hetherington, of Cherry Valley, 

 sold, in 1874, over 58,000 pounds of honey from his own apiaries, and 

 Adam Grim, of Jefferson, Wisconsin as much more. But we will not 

 further name individual incomes. Last year Mr. G-. M. Doolittle, of 

 Onondaga county, N. Y., reports that he secured 11, 177 pounds of honey 

 from sixty-seven hives of bees, being an average yield of 166| pounds 

 per hive. Of two stocks worked solely for extracted honey, one gave 

 566 pounds of honey. Of three worked solely for box honey, one 

 gave 309 pounds; the second, 301, and the third, 286, making in all 

 896 pounds of box honey from three hives. Mr. Doolittle, the recipient 

 of the medal for honey at the National Bee-keepers' Convention, in New 



