. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. LVII.—No. 10 HAMILTON, ILL, OCTOBER, 1917 MONTHLY, A YEAR THE SWEET CLOVER BELT OF THE SOUTH Beekeeping in Alabama and Mississippi as Seen by Our Staff Correspondent on His Recent Trip THE sweet clover belt extends al- most across the State of Ala- bama, east and west, but does not quite reach the Georgia line. Mr. J. E. Marchant is located at Colum- bus. across the Chattahoochee river from Alabama, but gets no honey from sweet clover. Union Springs, about fifty miles west, is on the edge of the sweet clover section. In the last issue I
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. LVII.—No. 10 HAMILTON, ILL, OCTOBER, 1917 MONTHLY, A YEAR THE SWEET CLOVER BELT OF THE SOUTH Beekeeping in Alabama and Mississippi as Seen by Our Staff Correspondent on His Recent Trip THE sweet clover belt extends al- most across the State of Ala- bama, east and west, but does not quite reach the Georgia line. Mr. J. E. Marchant is located at Colum- bus. across the Chattahoochee river from Alabama, but gets no honey from sweet clover. Union Springs, about fifty miles west, is on the edge of the sweet clover section. In the last issue I told something of the lack of summer pollen on the Appalachicola river in Florida. The Chattahoochee river flows into this stream, or rather changes its name at the juncture with the Flint river, at the southwestern corner of the State of Georgia. Mr. Marchant finds it easy and profitable to move about two hun- dred colonies by boat, to the tupelo region of Florida. At a cost of twenty cents per colony each way he is able to have the bees delivered and, in a favorable season, harvest a profitable crop and return the last of May, in time for the regular flows of his Georgia location. At Columbus his first honey comes from sweet gum. He also has tulip poplar, black gum and gallberry. In the fall he gets some honey from bitterweed and aster. From near Union Springs the sweet clover belt extends west into the State of Mississippi and northward almost to the Tennessee line. Al- though most of the localities men- tioned in this article are already well stocked with bees, there are many unoccupied ranges in this section of Alabama. At Fitzpatrick, Mr. Achord has nine hundred colonies in eleven yards. While he is in a posi- tion to harvest good crops of honey he prefers to convert most of it into bees and queens for the northern trade. He reports sweet clover as yielding generally from about June 5 to -August 20. He also gets some white clover, but there are few re- ports of this bl
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