"Short Stories," Talladega County
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
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Folder contains 31 pages of Alabama short stories compiled by Noma Dobson for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s. • March 4, 1939 ~ ra. -r~A. Ogletree, "'ain street ylacauga, Alabama Bees • I I Sr. , \ \ BEES Noma Dobson, Talladega sylacauga County Ne raised every eatable thing possible on the farm. Cotton was our cash crop to pay taxes, oh11dren's sohool expenses and dootors' bills. To oat we raised oorn, oats, fruits, wheat, vege-tables, sorgum, and ribbon cane syrup and honey. We had twenty-five or thirty hives of bees. I had the full c re of thElll. ~e had old fsah10ned gums, gums about a foot square and three ~e~t high with no bottom or top to them. The only entrance to these gums was an 1noh wide slit at the bottom on the south side. These gums were set on planks in rows on a benoh in the garden or orchard or around the well house. A square 11ank a little larger than the gums was plaosd on eaoh gum. At the edge of my garden were sever apple trees. I put my be gums there. To keep cator-pillara-out of ths honey I would lift up the gum, sweep the plank Clsan and sprinkle salt on the plank whsre the g was to rost. I did this about once a month. We didn't have inseot1c1des and eprays that we have today, but sOlt is a good d1sinfeotant and kee e the honey free...
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1939 Circa
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