Excerpt from The National Beekeeper's Directory: Containing a Classified List of the Beekeepers of the United States and Canada, With Essays and Hints Regarding the Successful Management of the ApiaryTo the subscribers of the "Beekeepers" Directory:"When we undertook this work it was our intention to have It In the hands of each subscriber as early as the middle of January. Several things have caused an unexpected delay.It was also our Intention to give some valuable statistics regarding bee culture. This we are not able to do on account of the Incompleteness of the blanks returned. Many of those who returned them did not reply to any of the questions. Of the 10, 000 blanks sent out, less than 3, 000 were returned.The average number of colonies kept by those who did return the blanks are twenty. Number of pounds of honey per colony was not far from twenty-flve pounds per season.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.