. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 544 famine with California. The climate of that country may with propriety be termed erratic. One year the abun- dance of honey cannot be handled. The next year, there is not enough to keep the bees from starving. The best evidence that the Blue-ridge country is an unfailing honey country, is found in the fact that the primitive farmers of that region generally keep bees ; keep them in sections of hollow logs, rough boxes, and in the crudest and rudest manner, and yet many of them have from 50 to 100 colonies. The latitude of North Carolina in- sures
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 544 famine with California. The climate of that country may with propriety be termed erratic. One year the abun- dance of honey cannot be handled. The next year, there is not enough to keep the bees from starving. The best evidence that the Blue-ridge country is an unfailing honey country, is found in the fact that the primitive farmers of that region generally keep bees ; keep them in sections of hollow logs, rough boxes, and in the crudest and rudest manner, and yet many of them have from 50 to 100 colonies. The latitude of North Carolina in- sures short winters. In the valleys and on the plateaus, vegetation is seldom, if ever, parched by drouth, the numerous mountain peaks condensing the vapor wafted from the Atlantic, and showers which are distributed through the entire spring and summer, keep plants always green and blooming. The forests are full of the best honey yielding trees and shrubs; white clover springs up on every foot of ground that is not usurped by trees or immediately under cultiva- tion ; buckwheat is one of the staple crops of the farms; and in some sec- tions fruit blossoms afford rich forage for bees in the spring. Travelers say that it is admirably adapted to bees. In describing the country known as high-lands, situated in Macon county, Southwestern North Carolina, Messrs. Kelsey & Hutchinson say, in their pamphlet: " The honey produced is of the very best quality, excellent in color, and even where kept in rough boxes or hollow tree-trunks, and with little or no attention, except to rob the hive two or three times a year, bees succeed admir- ably. Bee-keepers will recognize in the list of trees and shrubs many which furnish honey, and white clover is so abundant, wherever the timber is cleared away, that bees may always be kept with ; Prof. Richard Owen, M. D., State Geologist of Indiana, in his account of a visit to this mountain region of North Carolina, says : " From som
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