Decatur, Miss., Dec. 23, 1893.
=Getting Statistics on Bee-Culture.=
I notice on page 743 of the BEE JOURNAL for 1893, under heading of
"Comb Honey in the United States," a request for all manufacturers of
honey-sections to report all sales of sections to Dr. Miller, for the
purpose of ascertaining the amount of honey produced, etc. That would
be one way to guess at the amount, but I don't think it would be very
much of a guess.
It appears to me that there is but one way to get at the amount of
honey produced in the United States. Every assessor has a long list
of questions provided on purpose to get at the statistics of the
country. When these statistics are finally compiled, they are sent out
all over the country, and we can see at a glance just how much wheat,
oats, corn, etc., each State has produced the previous season. Now, I
don't think it would require very much persuasion on the part of the
bee-fraternity to secure the placing of two or three more questions on
that list, viz.:
1. How many colonies of bees did you have, spring count, on June 1st,
last year?