1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



351 



the farms in the 

 North Central 

 States report bees 

 while thirteen per 

 cent in the South 

 Central States 

 keep them, and 

 the number of col- 

 onies in the South 

 Central States is 

 considerably great- 

 er than the num- 

 ber of colonies in 

 the North Central 

 States. The num- 

 ber of pounds of 

 wax produced in 

 the South Central 

 States was at least 

 50 per cent greater 

 than in the North. 



We read in the 

 same report that 

 the three most im- 

 portant States at 

 the time the last 

 census was made, 



taking the number of colonies as a basis, 

 were Texas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. 



It is true that, ten years ago, the careful 

 attention was not given to the bees in Ten- 

 nessee that was found in many other States; 

 but, due to the elTorts of the Tennessee Bee- 

 keepers' Association, a marked difference 

 will be found in the report of the present 

 census. 



At the time of the last report, the State was 

 credited with a total of 225,788 colonies, and 

 the average in each county seems to be 



APIABY OP J. M. BUCHANAN, FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE. 

 Mr. Buchanan is regarded as a very successful apiarist. 



2000 colonies. A few counties showed as 

 many as 4000 colonies, and but few fall be- 

 low 1000 colonies. 



The efforts of the Tennessee Association, 

 and of the superintendent of the apiarian 

 de]iartment, Mr. .1. M. Buchanan, have re- 

 sulted in A most creditable display of honey, 

 bees, and bee-keepers' supplies at the Nash- 

 ville fair for several years past. The daily 

 papers, in speaking of the display, spoke 

 most favorably indeed of it last October, 

 commenting on the fact that it was one of 



ONE OF THE QUEEN-RE.VRING APIAKIES OF J. M. DAVIS, SPRING HILL, TENNESSEE. 

 Queens from this yard are known the world over. 



