Hi Tim and all,
I hope you have lots of red flags!     I worked for a beekeeper in Western
Canada and one year he had an average of 380lbs. per hive with 1500 hives.
It was very easy to calculate - in one corner of the warehouse were the
empty packages (2 lb. )  and in the rest of the warehouse were all the full
barrels (of 100% honey).
It was a two queen system. Does that make it 190lbs. per queen?
Peter
Now living in Eastern Canada and dreaming about a 380 pound average


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Vaughan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: December 5, 2003 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Honey Production - Back When


>
> So when I see rounded numbers like 235 pounds, to me that is a red flag.
> When you think about all the people who produced 25 to 50 pounds, there
> must have been a whole lots of folks who regularly got 500 pounds per
> hive, but I'll want to see detailed stats before I'll do anything but
> write off the 235 figure. It is well known that 94.7 percent of statistics
> are just made up. :-)

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