6 BULLETIN 685, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 
different States has been full or incomplete. For most of 
tlie States data are faiiiy complete, and for the important 
producing States of California, Texas, Colorado, all of the 
North Central group except North Dakota and most of the 
Central Atlantic and North Atlantic groups they are good, 
particularly for the years 1916 and 1917. From the States 
of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware, North Carohna, 
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 
Kentucky, North Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, 
Utah, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon responses have been 
relatively few and the figures given are therefore to be 
accepted with reserve. 
Table I. — Honeybees in the United States. 
State. 
Number of colonies 
of bees on farms 
(United States 
census). 
Spring coimt of colonies, year stated, in per 
cent of previous year. (Report May 1.) 
June 1, 
1900. 
Apr. 15, 
1910. 
1914 
com- 
pared 
with 
the 
usual 
number 
in pre- 
vious 
years. 
1914 
com- 
pared 
with 
1913. 
1915 
com- 
pared 
with 
1914. 
1916 
com- 
pared 
with 
1915. 
1917 
com- 
pared 
with 
1916. 
1918 
com- 
pared 
with 
1917. 
Per 
Per 
Per 
Per 
Per 
Per 
Number. 
Xumber. 
cent. 
cerirt. 
cent. 
cent. 
cent. 
cent. 
10,857 
7,592 
98 
99 
100 
107 
106 
85 
New Hampshire 
5,520 
4,644 
94 
96 
103 
100 
115 
85 
Vermont 
12, 836 
10, 215 
98 
93 
96 
115 
105 
75 
Massachusetts 
8,381 
7.464 
95 
96 
101 
115 
106 
70 
Rhode Island 
1.681 
1,267 
99 
99 
100 
105 
105 
95 
Connecticut 
11,438 
9,445 
85 
92 
110 
85 
112 
75 
Xew York 
187, 208 
156,360 
102 
103 
90 
109 
110 
80 
New Jersey 
14, 118 
10,454 
100 
103 
98 
90 
106 
73 
Pennsylvania 
161, 670 
124. 815 
95 
98 
98 
100 
110 
65 
Delaware 
10, 187 
6,410 
100 
101 
98 
103 
95 
85 
28,013 
23, 156 
96 
100 
102 
97 
108 
70 
District of Columbia . . 
59 
151 
139, 064 
104, 005 
98 
100 
106 
100 
100 
77 
111.417 
110, 673 
99 
101 
95 
102 
100 
75 
North Carolina 
244.539 
189, 178 
101 
103 
102 
94 
96 
88 
South Carolina 
93, 958 
75,422 
100 
100 
101 
100 
100 
115 
187,919 
130,549 
95 
98 
100 
98 
110 
110 
Florida 
39. 753 
38. 895 
101 
103 
100 
100 
96 
115 
Ohio 
151.391 
98,242 
105 
108 
9S 
98 
108 
65 
117, 148 
80, 938 
110 
115 
90 
102 
112 
70 
Illinois 
179, 953 
155, 846 
97 
100 
92 
105 
118 
80 
