>> Furthermore, huge honey crops were reported a hundred years ago.

Not necessarily because of the bees. Imagine keeping bees in a clover 
area and the farmers not even starting hay harvest until the fourth of 
July. That's thew way it was a hundred years ago here in the Champlain 
valley. Cut a little, rake a little. Cut a little, rake a little. Now, I 
have to move over on the road to allow the haybine to pass. The whole 
farm gone in a couple days just after the Dandelion seed puffs are out. 
And then again a month later and again a month later....and again about 
frost time.

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