THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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With the exception of winter qual- 

 ities (which I shall test the coming- 

 winter), I could not ask for better 

 results from testing my breeding- 

 queens and I think that they must 

 prove all that I could desire in this 

 respect, coming as they do from 

 perfect stock and from a thorough 

 straiu of bees. 



Now, friend Pond, do not ac- 

 cuse us with having too much 

 theory and too little practice, as we 

 think that our article will bear a 

 practical interpretation. 



Wenham, Mass., Sept. 10, 1883. 



BEE-CULTURE IN THE 

 SOUTH. 



By G. W. Demaree. 



In my opinion, after a thorough 

 knowledge of the honey bee, and 

 best methods of producing and 

 marketing of honey, the matter of 

 "■location" is of the greatest im- 

 portance. I have studied this 

 matter thoroughly of good loca- 

 tions for the production of honey, 

 and I believe that the position I 

 occupy as President of the Ken- 

 tucky Apicultural Society, and as 

 a -writer on bee culture, has enabled 

 me to gather much valuable infor- 

 mation on the subject. 



I have just returned from the 

 great Southern Exposition at Louis- 

 ville where I was in consultation 

 with prominent apiarists during 

 "•beekeepers' week," from man}' 

 parts of the middle and southern 



as well as from the northern, 

 states, and these pleasant in- 

 terviews have strengthened my 

 former convictions that bee culture 

 in the south will ultimately assume 

 wonderful proportions. During 

 "beekeepers' week" the Kentucky 

 Beekeepers' Society held its fourth 

 annual meeting. Its sessions were 

 well attended by its members, and 

 many visitors were present. Re- 

 ports from members elicited the fact 

 that beekeeping in the south pays 

 better than most rural pursuits. 

 Many young men are commencing 

 the business with the best of pros- 

 pects looming up before them. Our 

 bee and honey exhibition was a 

 credit to the beekeeping interests 

 of Kentucky, and it attracted more 

 attention than the great horti- 

 cultural exhibition which embraced 

 the strength of all the horticultural 

 societies of the South. 



The Kentucky Beekeepers' Soci- 

 ety, at its last meeting, set on foot 

 a work which, if successful, will 

 give it a prominent position among 

 the local societies in the bounds of 

 the great North American Associa- 

 tion. A committee of three live, 

 enterprising apiarists — to wliich 

 the President of the Kentucky 

 Society was added by motion — 

 was appointed by the chair, whose 

 duty it will be to collect informa- 

 tion concerning unoccupied terri- 

 tory in the state of Kentucky ; in 

 fact, to gather all the information 

 possible as to the adaptability of 

 our state to the production of 

 honey. This information will be 

 reported to the society at its next 

 annual meeting, and if the com- 



