At 06:35 AM 6/15/96 +0000, you wrote:
><< crop pollination plus the largest and most active
>group of commercial and hobby beekeepers and in the spring a large
>percentage of all the bees on wheels in the United States who take part
>in one of the great wonders of the agricultural world, the movement of
>800,000+- hives of bees to pollinate 400,000+- acres of almond trees.>>>
>I am curious.  If the American acre is the same as the British, this is 625
>square miles of trees - and a lot of almonds.  Where do they all go?  As I
>see it almonds play a very small part in my diet, on the occasional cake and
>the icing at Christmas.  Can someone enlighten me as there must be a lot of
>uses I know nothing of.
>
>                                                    Sid P.
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Hi Sid
 
Measurments can fool you.  There are 43,000 square feet in 1 acre.  There ar
640 acres in 1 square mile.
 
Frank Humphrey
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