. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 176 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. September, MIGRATORY BEE-KEEPING IN FLORIDA. BY O. O. POPPLBTON. THERE has always been a pecu- liar fascination in the subject of migratory bee-keeping, espe- cially when practiced on our river highways by the use of boats. I suppose that real migi-atory bee- keeping on the water means the keep- ing of bees on large flats, scows or work cannot be of much value to the fraternity, it may possibly interest some. Black mangrove is a semi-tropical tree oceum-ing in salt marshes, in close proximity to the ocean itself. There
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 176 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. September, MIGRATORY BEE-KEEPING IN FLORIDA. BY O. O. POPPLBTON. THERE has always been a pecu- liar fascination in the subject of migratory bee-keeping, espe- cially when practiced on our river highways by the use of boats. I suppose that real migi-atory bee- keeping on the water means the keep- ing of bees on large flats, scows or work cannot be of much value to the fraternity, it may possibly interest some. Black mangrove is a semi-tropical tree oceum-ing in salt marshes, in close proximity to the ocean itself. There are three localities in East Florida where it grows in sufficient quantity to. POI'I'Liri'dN'S KLKKT A'!' THK 'ii boats which are frequently moved from one locality to another so as to take advantage of different honey flows as they occur in different but not too distant localities. The only instance I know of this having been tried on a large scale in this country was a cost- ly failure. I douljt whether conditions in this country will ever allow of its being done Th(tt-e are localities, however, where a modified form of migratory bee-keep- ing can he practiced, and I happen to be lucky or unlucky, enough to be so located that I have to practice it to at- tain even medium success in my work. While a brief description of some of the , connected with this be of value to bee-keepers. One is near New Smyrna and Hawks Park, in Vo- lusia county, another is some 50 to 100 miles southward in the Indian River Narrows, in Brevard county, and the other is on the kej's south of Miami in Dade and Monroe counties. Along almost the entire east coast of Florida extend estuaries or salt- water lagoons, and the mangrove la mostly found on marshy islands in these waters. In many cases, espe- cially at the New Smyrna field, the wa- ter is narrow enough between the is- lands and the mainland so that bees on the mainland have ready access to them;.but in much of
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