WHAT CAME OF ONE HIVE OF BEES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 163, 10 July 1879, Page 4

WHAT CAME OF ONE HIVE OF BEES.

In a memorial to Congress relative | to the coming census of the United States, the superintendent ofthe census of 1860, Mr Kennedy, gives the following statistics as an illustration of the stupendous results from a single hive of bees, transported to tbe Pacific coast lees tban thirty years ago. From tbe Bingle country of Sao Diego, California, in 1876, there was shipped the astonishing figure of 1,250,0001 bof honey. In 1878 there were in that county 23,000 colonies of bees, and in one day, September 6, 1878, there were shipped from thut port 78 barrels, 1,053 cases and and 18 tons; and that from aod including July 17 to Nov. 10,1878, less tban four months, that one county exported over 1000 barrels, 14,544 caees, and nearly 20 tons. He who would strike out (from tbe oensus report) tbe item of honey, could not have known, so great has the innterest in this product become, tbat many people in California have from 500 to IGOO hives, and that over one hundred people in one county bave each more than 100 colonies of bees. According to the London News of Jan. 18, tbere arrived in November, at Liverpool, 80 tons of honey, the product of the bees of one individual; and tbat a Mr Hodge, in tbe first week of January last, landed 100 tons at a London wbarf, tbe product of California. The product of honey bas grown to 35,000,0001 b annually.