SOUTHERN BEE CULTURE 137 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Crouse, N. C. 



The general outlook for bee-keeping in this section of the South is 

 good, and, if it is properly followed, profitable. Our honey is of a good 

 quality, and brings a good price The average from old-style box hives is 

 from IS to 25, lbs., and such honey sells at 10 and 12 cents per pound. The 

 average from patent hives is from 25 to 30 lbs., and sells at 15 to 18 cents. 



Honey-plants in this location are not very plentiful. The most common 

 ones are poplar, persimmon, sourwood, sumac, melons, ironweed, cotton, and 

 some buckv^rheat ; but it is not extensively planted here. 



Below is a list of some of the most successful bee-keepers in my section r 



W. H. Hoover, G. Anthony, A. H. Black, J. H. Hearner, F. E. Carpen- 

 ter, J. Hacve, Rev. M. Carpenter, Mrs. Lee Brown, T. Lackey, H. S. Sellers^ 

 B. Black, M. Stroup, A. Tasour, C. Rhine, Wlm. Bullinger. 



We are located southeast of the South Mountains, which lie in Burk Co. 

 Hard wood is plentiful, and sometimes we have lots of honey-dew and pollen 

 from the hard-wood trees. 



We have a heavy loss of bees each season in old box hives, and we 

 must adopt patent hives to expect a great success in bee-keeping". 



C. C. Ramsey. 



BEE-KEEPING IN NORTH GEORGIA. 



Jasper, Ga. 

 Bee culture in North Georgia is carried on in a very limited way. There 

 are a good many bees scattered about the country. King bees and log gums, 

 or square plank gums, reign supreme with but few exceptions. The number 

 of colonies kept in hollow logs' or gums ranges from one to fifty. Very few 

 keep fifty. The bees are blacks, mostly. Some are hybrids, or crosses with 

 Italian stock. There are a few bee-keepers who have Italian stock who have 

 their bees in up-to-date hives, and modern methods are used in the manage- 

 ment of their bees. With these few exceptions the bees keep themselves and 

 work for nothing and board themselves, and are regarded as a kind of mys- 

 terious insect ruled by a "king;" and there is a prevailing idea with some, 

 that, when their owner or master dies, the bees will soon die out ; and there 

 is another idea among some of the bee-keepers that bees must be robbed or 

 their honey must be taken at certain stages of the moon, and unless this 

 rule is observed the bees will not do any more good after being robbed. Im- 

 proved hives and methods are not known to many, and are considered a 

 nuisance. It is not for the lack of pasturage for the bees that keeps the 

 people from engaging in bee culture in a commercial way or as a business. 

 It is for the lack of knowledge. Superstition and ignorance are in the way of 

 many. All the well-to-do farmers, or most of them, have their dozen or so 

 of log or box gums. There is more money to be made with bees in this 



