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One of J. C. Dickinson's yards at \'aldosta, Ga. 



sia, at Moskow. Among the various Slavic 

 states, Bulgaria takes the first i:)lace in bee- 

 keejjing, because our beekeepers are always 

 ready to learn. 



In the photograph, the gentleman on the 

 left is my teacher in beekeeping, Dimitre 

 PantchetT, and the other is myself. Mr. 

 PantchefT has 250 colonies in hives of the 

 Dadant pattern, but he intends to change 

 them to the American hive of Langstroth 

 dimensions. 



Dolna-Bania, Bulgaria, Europe. 



ITALIANS VS. BLACKS IN GEORGIA 



the same yard, although the season was a 

 failure from a financial point of view. 

 Valdosta, Ga. 



HV J. C. DICKINSON 



In the spring of 1909 I took a severe case 

 of bee-fever, and cured it by buying 22 hives 

 of black bees and transferring them to Dan- 

 zenbaker hives. At this time I have 5() 

 hives of blacks and 4 Italians, •'! of which I 

 raised myself. I gave a frame of honey 

 and fl.OO to a man in the city for a frame 

 of Italian brood: placed it in a strong queen- 

 less colony, and grafted part of the queen- 

 cells on two other frames. I made a Dan- 

 zenbaker hive into three apartments; car- 

 ried it back to my city friend s Italian yard, 

 with the result named above. 



My Italians produced last season four or 

 five times as much honey as the blacks in 



BEEKEEPING IN THE CUMBERLAND MOUN- 

 TAINS OF KENTUCKY 



BY J. S. JOHNSON 



This mountainous region seems to be an 

 ideal place for bees. There has never been 

 a season in my recollection when the colo- 

 nies have not made stores enough for win- 

 ter, so it seems strange to me to read about 

 those who have to feed for this purpose. It 

 is true that we do not get a large surplus 

 oftener than once in three years; but there 

 is always some surplus each year. 



The main sources of hone>- are blackber- 

 ry, clover, sourwood, and goldenrod. Then 

 we have a number of other ])lants and trees 

 that furnish enough nectar for bees to build 

 up on, such as blackgum, chestnut, fruit 

 trees, black locust, and summer heartsease. 



One or all of the fiowers named above will 

 furnish nectar for the bees each season. I 

 have never known all of them to fail in one 

 year, and so we have more chances for a 

 croji than beekeepers in localities having 

 only one or two resources. 



I will give a brief description of last sea- 

 son. The fruit bloom yielded the last of 

 April; and just as that was over, black lo- 



