The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07
CULLEOKA ITEMS.
BEE CULTURE


Is one OF the most important enterprises
in this community. Capt. J. j. Jones
and s. ID. Mclean, through this industri
Gus insect, are gathering the sweets that
would otherwise be wasted. What can
the little bee do towards relieving our
| people of their financial endorsements?
There is not less than six hundred square
miles in Maury county. Pre-eminently
| practical and successful bee keepers say
| that fifty colonies of bees can be support
| ed by one square mile. This gives thirty
| thousand colonies to the county. Capt
Jones averaged last season over one hun
dred pounds of honey to the colony; put
ting the average in round numbers at one
hundred pounds, this gives three million
pounds of honey, which at the low price
of twenty cents per pound, would put in
ejaculation the startling sum of six hun
dred thousand dollars. The importations
necessary for this relief in finance are
nails and paint for hives How many
poor people in our country would now
rej"ice with plenty if they only knew
how to avail themselves of the MEAS
within their reach. Mr. HARRISON, Of
San Diego, Cal. last year shipped one
hundred and fifty thousand pounds of
honey, making fifteen carloads, and it
Melted him thirty thousand dollars. He
had two thousand stands of bees. Adam
Grimm, of Wisconsin, in four years melted
twenty-five thousand dollars. San Diego,
Cal, is not, in the estimation of good
apiaries, superior to Middle Tennessee
for bee culture; and Wisconsin or any 9TH
er country North, is far inferior. May it |
not be that this little insect is the philos- |
Opher' 8 stone that is to solve the great |
financial question of the day, md give |
our people circulating medium?
MECHANIC ARTS IN CULLKoKA.
If you should divest yourself of single
blessedness, be sure to order house from
J. X. ID. Williams & Co., of Culleoka
Since they have secured their new ma
they are prepared to ship houses
complete and ready to set up at the short
Est notice. They have engaged to ship
parsonage to Rev. K. G. Irvine, Mt Oil
yet, and a house to gentleman in Ath-
ms, Ala, and they are hard at work to
i'll an order from Pulaski. Just think of
ordering q house like you would sack
If coffee or barrel of salt their Planer
md Watcher, from that world renowned
irm, Powers, fainter d Co.. Phila., was
purchased at a cost of six hundred and
hirty-hve dollars. 1t will work six thou
and feet of flooring per day, ana will t
ress from ten to twelve thousand feet of t
lumber. Their engine is one of the finest /
n the country, and their whole machine
J runs as smoothly and noiselessly as a J
ewing machine. This is one of the most t
firms in the county, and I
heir application to business has won for d
hem a large and remunerative run of t
ustom, Notwithstanding the hard times b
nd the numbers out of employment. b
CHURCHES OF CULLEOKA.
There is a protracted meeting now in "
rogress at the Methodist Church. Rev. n
K. Beasley filled the pulpit in the a
corning, and Rev. Sam. Griffin at night. h
hey are both members of the school
ere, and preached with acceptance.
There is no village of its size so blessed
as Culleoka. DIR. Wilkes
as few equals as pulpit orator; Rev.
[r. Stoddert is a man of decided ability
nd scholarly attachments. and Rev Mr..
vans is Tost useful man and excel k
nj preacher. A