Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — About Bees. [ARTICLE]

About Bees.

The largest beekeeper in ihe world i> Mr Harbison, of California, who ha3, Out) hives, producing 200,000 pounds of honey yearly. In Greece there are 30. 300 hives, producing 3,000,00,> pounds of honey; In Denmark 80,000, producing 8,000,000; in Russia 110,000, producing the same; in Belgium 200,000, producing 5.000,000 4X>up4s In Holland 34t ,00-, producing 6,000,000 pounds; in France 950,000, producing 28,000,000 pound ; in Germany 1,450,000, and in Austria 1,550,000, each producing.*4o,ooo,ooo pounds of honey. But in the United States there are 2,800,000 hives, belong Ing to 70,000 beekeepers, and produate' 88,009,000 pounds of honey yeari*