Litchfield County occupies the whole NW corner of Connecticut.  962 sq. miles (I don't believe the county boundaries have changed substantially since 1900). The largest and least populated region, forested disected hills.  The census in 1900 was 60,000 souls.   100 active beekeepers == a vocational penetration of 0.17%.     Spread out over the acreage, that would be one beekeeper per about

Just as an exercise, the 100 beekeepers would have a nominal homerange of 6000 acres each.    The penetration rate scale out to 500,000 beekeepers in the larger 2020 US population.  This is two orders larger than the supposed "Commercial owners" number but perhaps within one order of total employment in professional and sideline beekeeping,  but within the magnitude of the the aggregate number of newbee, aspirational and extant "hobby beekeepers" as a proportion.

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