HONEYBEES AND HONEY PEODUCTION. 
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observed in each succeeding year. The total increase since 
1910 to the spring of 1917 appears to be not far from 10 per 
cent. This growth has been largely within the ranks of the 
professional honey producers, those making this a principal 
business, rather than among the farmer beekeepers, not 
fully represented in this estimate, who, for reasons men- 
tioned later, quite possibly have less rather than more bees, 
certainly so in many sections where bee diseases have 
invaded new territory. 
Table II. — Honeybees: Per cent of total swarming, by months. 
State. 
Maine 
New Hampshire. 
Vermont 
Massachusetts... 
Rhode Island. . . 
Connecticut. . . 
New York 
New Jersey. . . 
Pennsylvania . 
Delaware 
Maryland 
Virginia 
West Virginia. . 
North Carolina. 
South Carolina. 
Georgia. 
Florida . 
Ohio.... 
Indiana. 
Illinois. . 
Michigan.. 
Wisconsin. 
Minnesota. 
Iowa 
Missouri . . 
North Dakota. 
South Dakota. 
Nebraska 
Kansas 
Kentucky 
Proportion of total annual increase of colonies in— 
March. AprU. May. June. July. August 
Per cent. 
0.3 
.2 
5.1 
15.7 
33.2 
Per cent. 
1.7 
3.9 
1.0 
12.2 
56.6 
50.1 
38.8 
.7 
2.5 
.2 
Per cent. 
7.3 
9.7 
5.8 
20.8 
5.0 
25.4 
9.5 
29.4 
19.7 
37.0 
45.4 
45.7 
26.2 
49.6 
35.9 
24.8 
15.3 
2L3 
20.4 
18.0 
3.9 
5.5 
4.5 
10.7 
26.7 
5.0 
7.8 
13.7 
27.3 
33.4 
Per cent. 
50.1 
48.5 
59.2 
47.1 
80.0 
49.7 
54.4 
48.5 
58.3 
50.0 
42.0 
39.3 
45.5 
30.6 
2.4 
4.4 
8.8 
55.1 
59.0 
58.5 
56.9 
58.4 
55.0 
59.1 
47.6 
51.6 
44.1 
51.2 
46.9 
51.9 
Per cent. 
Per cent. 
38.7 
3.9 
28.3 
13. 5 
31.3 
3.7 
21.2 
9.5 
15.0 
21.7 
2.7 
28.5 
7.6 
11.8 
9.3 
15.8 
5.5 
8.0 
5.0 
9.3 
1.6 
10.5 
.3 
25.6 
1.7 
6.9 
.5 
2.6 
2.4 
1.8 
2.1 
20.6 
2.3 
15.2 
2.9 
19.0 
4.3 
34.3 
4.9 
30.7 
5.4 
33.8 
6.7 
25.4 
4.3 
16.6 
5.5 
36.7 
6.7 
35.1 
13.0 
27.7 
7.4 
17.4 
7.5 
11.4 
2.6 
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