. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. MRS. J. T. FITZSIMON AND HER SON IN THEIR SMALL APIARY AT CASTROVILLE, TEX. Miscellaneous ^ News Items. Mr, Brenner, of Texas, Pointing Out the queen Honey Crop of 1916—The monthly crop report of the Department of Agri- culture for November, 191(j, gives a comparison of the average per-colony yield in the years 1915-1916. The total average for 1915, in the entire United States is pounds per colony, and in 191(i , a difference of 10>4 pounds, with an increased spring-count number of colonies of percent. The crop of section comb honey is
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. MRS. J. T. FITZSIMON AND HER SON IN THEIR SMALL APIARY AT CASTROVILLE, TEX. Miscellaneous ^ News Items. Mr, Brenner, of Texas, Pointing Out the queen Honey Crop of 1916—The monthly crop report of the Department of Agri- culture for November, 191(j, gives a comparison of the average per-colony yield in the years 1915-1916. The total average for 1915, in the entire United States is pounds per colony, and in 191(i , a difference of 10>4 pounds, with an increased spring-count number of colonies of percent. The crop of section comb honey is percent, that of extracted 39 5 percent, and that of bulk comb honey percent. Florida reports the largest crop per colony in 1916, 85 pounds, while Mis- souri shows the largest increase over the 1915 crop, 75 pounds in 1916 to 35 in 1915. The pporest showing is made by North Carolina, which shows only 23 pounds per colony, a decrease from 1915 of 19 pounds. The total increase of production of honey is percent, and as prices are about as high as last year, the dollar and cent result will prove very satis- factory. Of the total crop, percent is sold locally, and percent is shipped to outside markets, an increase of local consumption of about 7 percent, over the sales of 1915. Texas News Items.—Mr. Henry Bren- ner, of Seguin, one of the best known Texas beekeepers sailed for Porto Rico Nov. 18, from New York on the steamer Carolina to do some special investiga-. 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 [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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