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Una, but where honey plants abounded in numbers, cannot be 

 estimated as to the total ultimate value. The opportunities are 

 great in most parts of the South; where often enough bees are 

 already there to handle the flora, if properly managed. Southern 

 beekeepers will have to get together and work to eliminate the 

 box hive man by changing him into a modern beekeeper or elimi- 

 nating him from the game by honest means, before the South 

 will receive its proper share of the money spent annually in this 

 country for honey. Present production is about two and one 

 half pounds per capita for the entire country and this probably 

 is cut in half in the South. There is great room for expansion and 

 education of the market, before over production ever need be- 

 come a bogey. 



Progress in Marketing. 



Although the South probably has made greater strides than 

 any other part of the country in the past five years, in bettering 



Fig. 54. Label of the Texas Cooperative Honey Prgducers Association. 



