Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. 



Vol. XIII 



JANUARY, 1903 



No. 



'SOUTHERN HONEY." 



A Southern Producer Raises His Voice Against 



the Use of the Pernicious Word in 



Quotations. 



(By C. S. Harris.) 



BROTHER bee-keepers of the 

 South, let us freely and openly 

 support the editor of this journal 

 in his eftort to break dealers of the 

 bad habit of lumping our product un- 

 der the head of "Southern" honey. 



Since the beginning of my bee-keep- 

 ing days, some dozen years ago, this 

 unjust and unfair method of quoting 

 the honey of the South has irritated me 

 whenever and wherever I have run 

 across it. 



It may be that in former years the 

 honey from this section of our country 

 was marketed in such shape as to merit 

 this style of quotation, but at the pres- 

 ent time that certainly is not the case, 

 for there are many up-to-date bee- 

 keepers located throughout the South, 

 and there are some classes of honey 

 found here that compare favorably 

 with any produced north of the Mason 

 and Dixon line. 



I have no personal knowledge, it is 

 true, of the better grades of honey of 

 the South beyond this immediate sec- 

 tion, but it is not likely that Florida 

 has a monopoly in this respect, and for 

 light and amber honey of good body 

 and fine fiavor that from mangrove and 

 saw and cabbage palmetto is hard to 

 beat. 



I v/as born and bred a Buckeye, and 

 am acquainted with the brag honey of 

 the north-middle states, and yet I 

 would hesitate to place either clover or 



basswood ahead of saw palmetto hon- 

 ey, usually the main crop in this local- 

 ity and second in color, if nothing 

 more, to mangrove honey, produced 

 further south. I have sold palmetto 

 honey in Cincinnati for a number of 

 years at a figure above the market 

 quotations of basswood and clover. The 

 past two seasons have been failures 

 here, however. 



Editor Hill sounds a true note when 

 he says that " 'Southern' honey is no 

 more specific in designating quality 

 than would be Northern, Western or 

 Eastern honey." It is high time that 

 dealers were made to understand that 

 our honey should also be quoted by 

 name or grade. 



I would like to hear an expression 

 on this subject from other parts of the 

 South, for it can do no harm, and per- 

 haps much good, to let the dealers 

 know that we are in sympathy with the 

 stand taken by Mr. Hill in our behalf. 



Holly Hill, Fla., Dec. 1. 1902. 



BACILLI. 



Something About Dr. LamboH's "Discovery." 

 (By Adrian Getaz.) 



IN the December issue of the Amer- 

 ican Bee-Keeper there is an edi- 

 torial stating that Prof. Lambotte has 

 published in the Rucher Beige, a series 

 of experiments tending to prove that 

 the Bacillus alvei. which produces foul 

 brood in bees, is the same as that call- 

 ed bacillus mesentericus, which is found 

 sometimes in decomposed bread or 

 cheese. 

 Before going further, it must be re- 



