The Republican journal., 1875-09-30
Hunting for Wild Honey.

| IFS CouutlcS. New Jersey, ana nlOHT the
Stony Brook and Green Pond mountains,
the wild country is the lavorite resort OF
| sportsmen. There are stretches of miles
on the steep side e-hill5 where fields have
not yet been laid out and where the
smaller game lives undisturbed, ana at
the foot OF the hills trackless sWamps form
refugees almost as secure The streams
that rush down the hills into the Pequan-
mock are filled with trout. 1T is a viii,
country up here" said an ola man who
had lived there since he was Il boy. ''and
the new railroad is about all that has say
Ell us from being savages. for we couldn't
do much on our farms, and it didn't pay
us to cut wood, and so We ust lived along
as though we We're ON the frontier" The
IRON mines OF the district are its chiei
wealth, and inseparably associated with
them are the rugged hills in which the
ore is found, and the none less rugged
men who pass half their lives under the
ground. The Inhabitants aside from the
miners, are few in number. and tor their
living they depend far more upon their
guns, rods, and dogs than on markets and
agriculture. They shoot game, trap fur
bearing animals, and catch fish, and to
sWeeten their coffee and cakes they have
the honey that they take from the hives OF
wild bees
The "white mans 1y.0 rs the Indians
call the wild honey bee. lives on Just de
batable ground between civilization and
solitude, and the average white man likes
to track the ''fly" to its home and to SCOOP
out from q hollow tree the stores Of honey
that have accumulated for wears The
wild bee is found neither in those sections
where the white man has not penetrated.
nor in the country where he has thriving
villages and cultivated fields This last fact
is not due so much to any pecularity OF
the bee in insisting upon scquestration. as
to the white mans notion that if he wants
to gather u sure harvest Of honey III the
fall he had better keep his bees in neat
hive not far from bulldog, than in a
marked tree far from hi, house There
are men in Morris county like John OdeiI
who, owning Il patch Of ground for them
selves, keep their bees on the m0mt,lm-
tops and in the swamp lands for miles
around, and they are safe. No one hst Il
professional bee hunter could ever find The
| hives and it is ln unWritten law ain 1nr
them that they shall respect each others
prior rights. 4 big blazed spot on the
side Of the tree that holds the bees. and
initial or mark of the discover, are sulli-
clent to protect his rights Of property, and
he can lose his bees only by their SWARM
ing and choosing another home Then.
unless he IS present to follow them with
his own eye from their old home to their
new, his claim upon them is gone, and
they will belong to him who first find,
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