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Show Keeping Bees. The census shows a decrease of almost 800,000 colonies of bees on the farms of the United States. There is also a considerable decrease in the number of farm3 reporting bees. Since bee keeping is one of the important im-portant and profitable minor branches of agriculture, this decrease among farmer bee keepers is unfortunate. unfor-tunate. No returns are available for bee keepers in towns and cities. ( Bee keeping is fast becoming the business of the speciiHst and the number of men who devote their entire en-tire attention to the business is rap-Idly rap-Idly increasing. However, there is no reason why the average farmer can not keep a few colonies of bees to supply honey for home consumption with perhaps some surplus for sale in good years. |