. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ESTABLISHED-1661 'the OLDEST BEE-PAPER -AMERTS?g:)!^c Pablislieci Weekly, at Sl-OO per anniun. Sample Copy sent on AppUcatioa, 36th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., SEPTEMBER 17, 1896. No. MR. W. H. PRIDGEN. While a majority of the prominent bee-keepers of the United States reside north of " Mason and Dixon's Line," yet there are quite a good many to be found south of it. It is to be hoped that their number may increase in that region, which is so admirably adapted to profitable bee-culture, both on ac- count of its abundant and varied flora, and t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ESTABLISHED-1661 'the OLDEST BEE-PAPER -AMERTS?g:)!^c Pablislieci Weekly, at Sl-OO per anniun. Sample Copy sent on AppUcatioa, 36th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., SEPTEMBER 17, 1896. No. MR. W. H. PRIDGEN. While a majority of the prominent bee-keepers of the United States reside north of " Mason and Dixon's Line," yet there are quite a good many to be found south of it. It is to be hoped that their number may increase in that region, which is so admirably adapted to profitable bee-culture, both on ac- count of its abundant and varied flora, and the fact that the wintering problem in bee-keeping seems to be no problem at all in the Southland. This week we are permitted to present to our readers the face, and some biographical information, of one of the young bee-keepers of old North Carolina—Mr. W. H. Pridgen. The following sketch is kindly furnished by Mr. W. R. Harvey, who is Mr. Pridgen's partner in a general merchandise store at Ita, N. C: Mr. W. H. Pridgen, of Creek, N. C, was born in Nash county (this State), Jan. 13, 1862. Oct. 1, 1871, his mother died, and he with his brother and sister were left in their grandmother's care for three years. His father moved to Warren county, N. C, married again, and took his children to live with him. Owing to the loss by the Civil War, and bad management, his father's circumstances were materially changed, and Mr. Pridgen has never had the advantages of five months' schooling, but was put on the farm to work when so young that he claims that it gave him very much of a dis- taste for farm work. As his father's family increased he realized that he would have to paddle his own canoe, and resolved, though only a lad, to take advantage of the first opportunity presenting itself, to improve his circumstances, although he had been in the county but two years, and had not had the advantages of many others of his age in the com- munity. Mr. B. P. Davis, of Creek, singled out Mr. P. as
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