. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 20 years. He had 7-") colonies in Aus- tria. The lettering on the medal reads thus: "Austrian Association of Bee- ; Bees and Honey in Illinois.—We are indebted to J. K. Dickirson, Secretary, for the Statistical Report of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture for 1910. In this the colonies of bees in the State are given at 80,-')44. They produced 341,G'21 pounds of honey which sold at an average price of 17 cents a pound, making a total of $.')6,621. (There seems to be something wrong with these figures, as 341,621 pounds at 17
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 20 years. He had 7-") colonies in Aus- tria. The lettering on the medal reads thus: "Austrian Association of Bee- ; Bees and Honey in Illinois.—We are indebted to J. K. Dickirson, Secretary, for the Statistical Report of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture for 1910. In this the colonies of bees in the State are given at 80,-')44. They produced 341,G'21 pounds of honey which sold at an average price of 17 cents a pound, making a total of $.')6,621. (There seems to be something wrong with these figures, as 341,621 pounds at 17 cents figures up $.-)8,07.^.) This is a little more than the value of the apple crop. In 5 counties of the State the price o honey was cents a pound. From that the price ranges down to 8 cents, the price in Fayette county. Hamilton, one of the southernmost counties, stands out conspicuously with 28,079 colonies. Next to this comes Livingston county, with 1,925 colonies. Brown coimty has only 20 colonies. It is to be feared that the system of collecting these statistics is not very reliable, notwithstanding all the pains taken by Secretary Dickirson. The honey crop of McHenry county, for ex- ample, is reported at 134 pounds, while it is certain that one bee-keeper alone in that county produced more than 50 times that amount. If 80,544 is anywhere near the correct number of colonies in the State, there does not seem to be any overstocking, as there are less than l^i colonies to the square Bee-Talk to School Children.—Miss Hill, principal of one of the public schools of Indianapolis, Ind., accom- panied 38 boys and girls about 15 years of age to the bee-supply and honey es- tablishment of Walter S. Pouder, at Indianapolis, March 16th, to listen to a talk about bees. Of course, Mr. Pouder did his best, and before he knew it he had talked for two hours, and then the children came to him with written questions, which made it all the more interesting. He never saw so m
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