. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 370 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November ers with orders and corespondence. After working all of the hours of daylight in the apiary, they some- times had to sit up until midnight answering letters, and even then found it difficult to keep up with cor- respondence. Dyersburg is in the northwestern part of the State, and there we found quite different conditions. Between Nashville and Dyersburg we crossed a high ridge of very poor, gravelly soil, like some portions of the Ozark region. Along the western border of the State the land, for the most part, is quit
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 370 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November ers with orders and corespondence. After working all of the hours of daylight in the apiary, they some- times had to sit up until midnight answering letters, and even then found it difficult to keep up with cor- respondence. Dyersburg is in the northwestern part of the State, and there we found quite different conditions. Between Nashville and Dyersburg we crossed a high ridge of very poor, gravelly soil, like some portions of the Ozark region. Along the western border of the State the land, for the most part, is quite fertile. A very good meeting was held there, in spite of a rain, and a goodly portion of those present were members of the girls' clubs, which are under direction of Miss McPhee, the demonstration agent. The last meeting was held at Mem- phis, in the southwest corner of the State. Here the party was made up of beekeepers from Mississippi, as well as Tennessee, and the whole crowd took a hike into Arkansas to see a little apiary in the cotton fields of the Mississippi River bottoms. The bottoms are covered with a luxuriant growth of vines of great variety, in addition to gums and the usual heartsease and Spanish needles. There, for the first time, the writer saw the climbing boneset, which grows luxuriantly over fallen logs, fences, etc. The blossoms are very similar to the other bonesets, and the bees were working them freely. We later found the climbing boneset com- mon in lowlands across the northern part of the State of Mississippi. Sourwood The sourwood tree is worthy of more than passing notice. So much has been written about the quality of its honey and the quantity of the yield from this source, that beekeep- ers living in other regions may well wish to become more familiar with it. The 'botanical works give its range as from southern Pennsylvania and Maryland to Florida, and west to In- diana and Louisiana. While the tree may be found in this large region, it is seldo
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