ILLUSTRATIONS 



Frontispiece — "Dixie Bees" Apiary of Wilmon Newell under 



moss hung trees in Brazos River Bottoms. Page 



Fig. 1. A small apiary at Macon, Georgia 11 



Fig. 2. Table showing census data on southern beekeeping 13 



Fig. 3. A relic of the old days. Apiary of box hives 18 



Fig. 4. A modern Texas apiary developed from two box hives 19 



Fig. 5. A modern hive 25 



Fig. 6. A Virginia swarm 31 



Fig. 7. Mrs. Grace Allen's backlot bees 33 



Fig. 8. It is necessary to guard against high water in many locations 35 



Fig. 9. Apiary of P. J. Thullen in Alabama 36 



Fig. 10. A summer meeting in Tennessee » 37 



Fig. 11. J. J. Wilder, a prominent Georgia beekeeper 39 



Fig. 12. Chart of temperatures at Louisville. 40 



Fig. 13. When a norther hits the South. (Chart) 41 



Fig. 14. When snow falls in Tennessee. Photo by Mrs. Grace Allen... 42 



Fig. 15. It is a common practice to winter the bees with supers on 



the hives to prevent loss of combs by moths. 47 



Fig. 16. A West Virginia apiary in double wrJlcd hives 48 



Tig.~17. By rail and boat to Florida 49 



Fig. 18. Walker's mating yard in Tennessee. Photo by G. M. 



Bent ley.. 54 



Fig. 19. Packages crated for shipment 56 



Fig. 20. A handy funnel for filling packages. 57 



Fig. 21. Queen mating nuclei in southwest Texas _._ 58 



Fig. 22. Home and queen yard of J. L. Leath at Corinth, Miss 59 



Fig. 23. OneofM. C. Berry's Alabama yardsfor breeding package bees. 60 



Fig. 24. Apiary of B. M. Caraway at Mathis, Texas 62 



Fig. 25. Harry Hewitt's apiary at Lake Apopka in tropical Florida.... 63 



Fig. 26. Apiary of J. K. Isbell on the Apalachlcola River, Florida 66 



Fig. 27. Semltroplcal conditions prevail in Florida and in the lower 



Rio Grande Valley in Texas 67 



Fig. 28. The rich flora of a Georgia swamp 70 



Fig. 29. An up-to-date apiary in the pine woods of Alabama 71 



Fig. 30. There are many good locations along the streams in Georgia. 72 



Fig. 31. Where Tennessee bees hum 73 



Fig. 32. A Virginia clover location 75 



Fig. 33. One of J. J. Wilder's apiaries in south Georgia 77 



Fig. 34. Apiary in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia..... 80 



Fig. 35_. . Attractive hillside location in Virginia. 81 



Tig. 36. Typical apiary in log gums 82 



Fig. 37. A Mississippi River bottom location in Arkansas. 83 



Fig. 3S<. Box hive apiary of a typical mountaineer 84 



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