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keepers in the past have found it impossible to keep their bees strong 
and healthy and to get greater yields of honey. 
Many sections of Tennessee are admirably adapt- 
Tennessee as a ed to the keeping of bees, in that clover grows 
beekeeping state luxuriously. Leaving these regions we find the 
beekeepers producing honey profitably from pop- 
lar, linden, cotton, sourwood, aster, etc. The largest honey producers 
in the State, with very few exceptions, produce extract honey. The 
bulk of the honey produced is consumed in the State and large ship- 
ments are made to Tennessee from California and Texas. The pos- 
sibilities of the beekeeping interests of the State are exceptionally 
good, they being not only fostered by State aid in the control of 
diseases, but also by instruction in the introduction of modern appli- 
ances and methods of management. As a rule the beekeepers are 
extending their business and this will continue to. be enlarged as 
attention is directed 
to this industry. The 
beekeepers who will 
not give their bees 
care and attention 
and who still adhere 
to the log and plank 
“gums” will soon be 
forced out of busi- 
ness by bee troubles 
resulting from lack 
of attention, and in 
their place those 
making a study of 
the industry and us- 
ing ie ca hives Fic. 42—Natura, Comps Buitpinc. A SuccEsTION 
and appliances will ON THE Use or Fuu, Sueerts or FounpaTion 
push on to success. (After Hutchinson) 
The market for hon- 
ey throughout the State is exceptionally good. The writer has been 
surprised many times to find comb honey selling in the cities during 
holiday season for 35 and 40 cents per pound. The average price for 
extract honey in the State is from 12% to 15 cents. In Texas, where 
the bulk of the honey is produced in the United States and where 
much of it is sold at wholesale, the average price is only 6 cents per 
pound. 
More attention in the State is being paid to mod- 
Yields of dif- ern hives and the improved strains of bees than 
ferent bees ever before. People are eager for information on 
the subject and scores of letters each month are 
sent to the Experiment Station and to this office for instructions. 
There are at present several firms in the State selling bee supplies, and 
besides, many agents are selling for outside firms. Few beekeepers 
today are keeping the black, or German bees. These have been ex- 
changed for more gentle bees—the three-banded, and golden Italian 
and the Carniolians. * 
The following table shows the number of beekeepers keeping 
Italian, Hybrid, or black (German) bees; also the yield of extract 
honey from each: 
No. of beekeepers No. of colonies Yield—Lpbs. 
Ttalian: ssiccss doe eeees 93 2557 39% 
Hybrid. sicescece ci as 30 691 80% 
Black (German) ..... 34 561 20 
