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Now let us look over the statistics and see what is being done in the 

 bee and honey industry here in the South at present. 



Number Pounds honey Pounds wax Value honey 



Colonies pet annum. per annum. and wax. 



North CaroHna 250,000 2,500,000 150,000 $300,000 



South CaroHna 100,000 900,000 50,000 100,000 



Georgia 200,000 1,800,000 80,000 200,000 



Alabama 250,000 2,500,000 150,000 300,000 



Mississippi 100,000 900,000 50,000 100,000 



Louisiana . . ; 50,000 500,000 30,000 60,000 



Texas 500,000 5,000,000 300,000 500,000 



Arkansas 150,000 1,500,000 75,ooo 200,000 



These figures are interesting, and show that our industry is a paying 

 one, and by no means a small one ; yet it is nothing compared to what it 

 should be and will be. The great amount of honey saved by the bees is not 

 much more than a drop compared to what is wasted for lack of bees to save 

 it. 



The outlook for the bee and honey industry at present in the South 

 is certainly a bright one. There are progressive apiaries in operation here 

 and there all over the South, and men are devoting their entire time to the 

 industrious bees, and wondering why a greater number of people are not 

 more interested. 



I have asked a few of these progressive bee-keepers located in different 

 sections of the South to send me a write-up of bee-keeping, and the pros- 

 pects of it in their location; and they responded, giving some names of 

 other progressive bee-keepers located in the same section. 



I thank them, one and all, for their kindness, and I am sure that their 

 •enthusiastic write-ups will be interesting to you. 



BEES IN TEXAS. 



NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS. 



The Past, Present, and Future of the Bee-Keeping Industry in The 



Great Lone Star State. 



Not only is Texas the greatest honey-producing State of the South, 



but of the United States; for in its large annual output of honey products 



it surpasses all other States, producing crops of honey much more regularly 



than any other in the Union. 



bee-keeping of the past. 

 There are no available records of the beginning of bee-keep: Texps, 



hence it is not positively known when the first bees came into this Statt. 

 The industry for a long time progressed very slowly, and remained in its 



