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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR. 

 w. z. HOTCHDJSON, Editor am ProDiletor. 



VOL. XV. FLINT, MICHIGAN, DEC. 10, 1902. NO. 12. 



THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. 



BY H. E. HILL. 



How the Bee-Keeping of these Localities Differs. 

 A Pleasing Pen Picture of J. B. Hall. 



To delineate the general difiEerences 

 between Nortnern and Southern bee- 

 keeping, as you request, is, I am sure, 

 quite beyond the ability of any one; 

 that is, if he were to confine his ob- 

 servations to the limit of personal ex- 

 perience. The reading bee-keeper has 

 a general knowldge of these differ- 

 ences; and a leap from the frigid 

 region of the great lakes to a sub-trop- 

 ical climate fails to yield personal 

 knowledge of the expanse of country 

 which, though separating, serves to 

 blend the extremes and obliterate the 

 line which some apparently Imagine 

 to exist 



NO DEFINITE UNE BETWEEN NORTH 

 AND SOUTH. 



There is, of course, no distinctive 

 line defining the southern limit of 

 northern methods, nor the boundary 

 of systems generally In vogue in the 

 South. Individual ideas and purposes 



are largely responsible for the divers- 

 ity of working plans, regardless of 

 geographical position. However, as I 

 look upon the beautiful picture wliich 

 graces this number of the Review, und 

 reflect upon the widely different con- 

 ditions encountered In the extreme 

 North, South, East and West, since 

 the day I assisteu in establishing Mr. 

 Hall's apiary upon its present site, 

 many differences, not easily explained 

 in the small space at my disposal at 

 this time, became plainly evident. 



SOME INTERESTING REMINISCENCES OF 

 MR. J. B. HAI,L. 



Though the lapse of seventeen years 

 has materially altered the appear;-, nee 

 of the old apiary— large fruit trees, 

 hedges and sod growing where then 

 was but naked earth; vines clinging to 

 the walls of the honey house and 

 shed, then bright and new, giving it 

 an almost ancient aspect; the admix- 



