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Bee Brevities

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
March
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The Central Michigan Bee-Keepers' Association will meet at Lansing, May 10. A correspondent of the American Bee Journal, writing from Wayne, in this State, says he saves all the kingbirds and house-wrens to catch drones and bee-moths, and the Journal adds that the birds mentioned are of more good than harm to bee-keepers. The Saugatuck correspondent of the Allegan Democrat says that at least one-half of all the bees in that part of the State have died during the past season, and that bee men are very despondent. The cause of this unusnal rnortality is not stated, but it is xrobable due to lack of proper care in the winter keeping of bees. An exchange figures up that there are 2,000,000 bee hives in the United States. Every hive yields, on an average, a little over twenty pounds of honey. The average pnce at which honey is sold is 25 cents per pound. So that, after paying for tlieir own board, our bees present us with a revenue of over $S,00O,OOĆ¼. Or reckon it in another way - they make a clear gift of one pound of pure honey to every man, woman and child in the vast domain of the United States. In 1800 over 23,333,333 pounds of vrax were made and given to us by these industrious workers.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus