The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09
ON THE WING

The honey is sold principally in the , north, through Columbus, Ga, brokers, and brings about S26 per barrel. One bee
 keeper told me he looked on his bees as his bank, and that he could always draw from them.
 Bees, like interest and the Bessemer
 blast furnaces, work on Sunday. The purest honey produced in this sec tion is that from the Tupelo gum, and as the gum swamps evtend for in one direc- ton 90 miles without interruption there is no danger of the supply falling off. The titi and persimmon also furnish beautiful honey and there are other va rites too numerous to mention. Wewahitchka is in Calhoun county, which Is about 75 miles long and 30 miles
 wide. It has three candidates for the legislature, about 800 voters and is demo- cratic
 The Louisville and Nashville railroad sold in this county about 5O,000 acres of
 land to syndicate of Michigan lumber
 men, making 600,000 acres which they have | sold in this state at about $1 per acre. The syndicate will get a lot of turpentine and lumber off the land and then sell | 1t to settlers at any price the settlers are willing to pay. Besides these lands
 the government owns in Florida a few | million acres which are open to settlers or for sale at SIPS per acre. Aft | CT, learning of the vast quantity of good | lands to be had in as good a state as Florida Is, 1 am more and more puzzled | to know what Uncle Sam wants with Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines. The l 6C0,000 acres above referred to all lie in west Florida, that Is the portion of Flor ida, which lies west of the Apalachicola | river and is comparatively small part | of the state. These lands are heavily l timbered, well watered and fertile and adapted to growing cotton. corn and hay l and furnish fine pasturage for cattle | and sheep the year around. There are many thousand sheep in west Florida, which are rounded up once a year for | shearing and branding; the rest of the | time they take care of themselves. They | are not disturbed to any extent by dogs | as Is the case in some sections of tha country. Tn answer to a query in an I agricultural paper, What must we do about sheep killing dogs?" a corre- | spondent replied, Let them alone, can't We spare a few dogs?"
 | There are quantities of scuppernone grapes grown near Wewahitchka anc some fine wine Is made. Ice sells at q: cents per pound, but it is reasonably plentiful. The trade in quinine is large The usual salutation in this section is Good morning; did you miss your chill | yesterday?"
 We left Wewahitchlza about dark or lii0 StcdiiiSI IHleo otdIeS TOT ESCl1anulS1. Three States is a very comfortable, vel furnished steamer about 12o feet in length and 30 feet beam of the wheelbarrow or stern wheel type. Flat bottomed and
 square bowed. but good freighters There being no shirred shirtwaist on | board my friend went to bed soon after | supper. while I sat on deck and enjoyed
 the scenery and singing of the deck hands or roust-abouts.
 The Apala ic bao,+If,,I ,;,ro, winding and turning between banks clothed in Bermuda grass, above which
 tower great magnolias, water oaks and sycamores, occasionally stretches of will low vary the scene and the wild grape hangs in graceful festoons from the tall trees.
 The electric searchlight in the bow of the steamer brings out in vivid outline new beauties at each turn of the stream and every now and then shows masses of beautiful white spider lily or crim- son cardinal flower growing in low places or the banks; then comes a high sand
 bluff. succeeded by a white sandy beach to be again succeeded by stretches of Bermuda grass and the majestic forest In the bright beams of the electric light are myriads of winged creatures
 moths of brilliant hue, candle flies and
 the little white moth or willow fly, and as we go on for mile after mile the hutteripg stream never ceases. Thousands of them fall on the surface of the water and are eagerly seized by ! the swarms of channel catfish whose voraciousness over the feast is alarming They were countless and the steamer | plowed through them for hours l The time came for retiring, however and taking 10 grains of quinine and say. | ing my prayers, I went to bed, or per. haps it would be more nautical to say I turned in. JAMES H. HARD August 19, 1902