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BEEKKKI'INc. IN Till-: SOUTH 



Fig. 30. There are many good locations along the streams in (/.< 



the comb honey producer. The writer would estimate the 

 commercial production of extracted honey to comb honey in the 

 alluvial section as about 80 to 20 in 1919. It is probable that 

 lowering prices for extracted honey following the jx^ace treaty- 

 may increase the production of comb honey again, since prices 

 on comb honey in the past have been more stable. 



Much of this region is covered with pine woods and in such 

 locations but few of the big beekeepers of the South are found. 

 However, much of the woods is being cut and when cultivation 

 of this region has gotten well under way in all jxirts of the 

 South, it is probable that the pasture for bees from such culti- 

 vated crops as field peas, soy beans, cow peas, cotton and alfalfa 

 may increase. Some very good alfalfa honey is reported in parts 

 of Mississippi along the "river" where the soil types seem to 

 differ radically from the bulk of the soils of this region. This is 



