THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 275 



Some Glimpses of Bee-Keeping in a Warm Climate. 



JOSEPH S. SCOTT, Mt. Pleasant, Ala. 



' ■ Jl X the January Review friend Tyrrell forgot and put an article 

 Jl in with the above heading-. I had no idea it would be pub- 

 lished when I wrote it, so I will see if he will let this one 

 bv. On page 6 he asks the readers to tell me what to do. I must 

 have found out what to do m3'self, for I remember that I came 

 home from the store after writing that article and got busy. I 

 checked the swarming a great deal, enough to get 1,500 pounds comb 

 honev and 300 pounds extracted. I also got busy with the selling 

 end of bee-keeping and sold the comb honey for 10 to 15 cents, 

 average about 12^^ cents per pound, and sold the extracted (by the 

 gallon) at $1.00 per gallon, or about 8^2 cents per pound. I went 

 at the selling so vigorously that 1 believe I could have sold 2,000 

 pounds more of comb honey. 



A Land of Sunshine and Sugar Cane. 



I will now diverge from my bees for a while. I have received 

 many letters from readers of the Review asking aliout health down 

 here, locations, cost of land. Health is fine, and there are plenty of 

 locations and land is cheap in lots of places, but for goodness sake 

 see and know what you are buying before you spend your hard- 

 earned money for some land that probably is fit for nothing. Trans- 

 portation at my place is very unsatisfactory; 29 and 18 miles from 

 my nearest railroads. I live three miles from the Alabama river, 

 and we have two boats up a week. These boats come back down 

 the same week. They leave Mobile every Tuesday and Saturday 

 nights, but you don't know within two da}-? when they will get 

 back there. I sold very near all of my honey in ^^lobile to the fancy 

 grocers. 



]\Ir. Tyrrell has an idea that I sell my honey in my store. Well, 

 that is not so. I live in the country and everybody raises sugar cane 

 and makes enough cane syrup to last them, and honey is strictly a 

 luxury with anyone here if they buy it. I don't sell 100 pounds in 

 my neighborhood. You can make about 300 gallons of syrup to an 

 acre of cane ; some on good land make as much as 400 or 500. Even 

 this syrup is as far ahead of Karo or other corn syrups as honey is 

 of glucose. I am a very ardent bee man, and will say that the 

 country syrup made around here is as near honey as anything. It 

 sells by the gallon at 30 cents to 50 cents, and weighs about the 

 same as honey, so you see how hard it is to sell honey. I am now 

 equalizing brood and stores for Ti-ti bloom, which is about Feb- 

 ruary 10, March 1 to 15. All depends on the season. It is a light 

 honev and one of the best I sret. Will w^ite more about it next 



