. Biennial report of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 50 as obtained from a careful survey of the beekeeping interests from data in the Office of the State Entomologist. At present there are 144,479 colonies of bees in Tennessee. Estimated at $ per colony, their value would be $505, The amount invested in honey houses and other apparatus con- nected v^ith beekeeping, exclusive of hives, would doubtless ap- proximate 6 per cent of this amount, or $30, From state- ments received from 1,006 beekeepers in the State it is found that the average yield per colony is 30 lb
. Biennial report of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 50 as obtained from a careful survey of the beekeeping interests from data in the Office of the State Entomologist. At present there are 144,479 colonies of bees in Tennessee. Estimated at $ per colony, their value would be $505, The amount invested in honey houses and other apparatus con- nected v^ith beekeeping, exclusive of hives, would doubtless ap- proximate 6 per cent of this amount, or $30, From state- ments received from 1,006 beekeepers in the State it is found that the average yield per colony is 30 lbs. of honey. This makes the production of the 114,470 colonies 4,334,370 lbs. of honey, which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennessee. Dept. of Agriculture. Nashville, Tenn. : The Dept.
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