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Georgia and Alabama to a great advantage. By moving up there 

 along in early fall, he could get sufficient honey in many years, 

 to draw out one or two sets of foundation into combs and to fre- 

 quently get twenty or thirty pounds of surplus honey to the 

 colony. The value of combs never appears so pre-eminent to 

 the beekeeper as in such a location as on the Appalachicola River 

 where the principal feature of getting a tupelo honey crop is to 

 supply enough ready built combs. 



Further south in Florida, on the east coast, at Miami, the 

 author met sevieral men who said they made a success of moving 

 their bees down among the Keys off the coast, where they could 

 take advantage of valuable nectar sources, such as black ma- 

 grove. This also proved to be the case on the west coast in the 

 vicinity of Ft. Myers. However, no one was met who had made 

 a great success of moving bees on the Mississippi, the Red, the 

 Missouri, or any of the other main water arteries of the South. 

 Bees can undoubtedly be moved to advantage in the swamp 

 regions in many cases. There is probably no nicer means of 

 moving bees than on a quiet, steady launch. But it's all off 

 when the "blows" come up suddenly. One beekeeper at Pensa- 

 cola, Florida, recently lost a launch, bees, and a good share of 

 his season's honey crop in a squall of wind which caught him 

 unawares in Pensacola Bay. 



