Bees (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bees Let us turn to the United States census figures for the year 1910. Here we shall see that bees are credited with' producing worth of honey and worth of wax in a single year. But it was possible for the census enumerators to get track of only about half the amount of the grand total. A conservative esti mate based ou reliable data shows that honeybees should be credited with not less than $2 worth of honey and beeswax. But as the average person can not comprehend what this means, suppose we load all this honey into 40-foot freight-cars holding pounds each. These cars, if placed end to end, would make a solid train over fifty miles long. So the little bee is not so little as it might at first seem. There are in the United States in the neighborhood of one mil lion persons who keep bees. There are perhaps one thousand whose annual crops run up into the carloads, and probably who make beekeeping a means of livelihood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.