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BEEKKEPIXc; IN THE SOUTH 



Fig. 52. (Jakler's wagon was long a familiar sight on the streets of 



Memphis. 



dark colored honey is produced, but these regions can not fairly 

 bring upon the balance of the product, the unjust classification 

 of "Southern." From some regions, namely Florida, where 

 black and white tupelo honey is produced, there comes some of 

 the finest honey which any man has ever eaten. Similarly in 

 southwest Texas, huajilla yields a wonderfully fine grade of 

 nicely flavored, white honey. For the consumer of the middle 

 South, it is hard to better his purchases, than from the regions 

 of Mississippi and Alabama, where wild sweet clover 3'iclds, or 

 in south Georgia, where partridge pea abounds. Yet how many 

 consumers ot hone}^ elsewhere in the country and how many 

 beekeepers ever heard of these honc}T> at bee conxentions orinthe 

 market? The need is j)ublicity and cooperative marketing. 



