The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-13

the hiyes, and marked every box 'Bees.,'
1 told D them = sDS Ssnnt they S0 %sS. the ..,s ess9S; then them
s sSsS..i ES.y II you want ' 70. + Th s@ffs speak for
"lney didn't smash any cases. and we got
10 santiago all right the bees and myself aud
Sne,o wn,se man mat took along; and a four
IN three loads. eighty,six hives and our tru ks
ana things. Yes. they always draw loads
You zee the roads are so bad 1t takes one horse
to drag another alonL.
In rows out in the thick OF the flowers, and out
came the bees. They were bewildered at FIRST
and didn't do anything but just look at the
View. L didn't blame them, either. a hun
dred thousand acres of view, easy. nnd NOT n
cent cent to pay But 1t didn't take them long to
They couldn't stir two feet In. any direction
srr op striking a flower. and every flower
saving in SPANISH. Why didn't you bring us
here betoreS This Is a peachr
An, nv little heartiesH said | to myself,
you don.t know tho best of IL yet You don't
know that these iowe:s are here all the wear
ro"aIYa a: out You'll find 1t out
~ out as you shall see. The honey began to
come lone nnI was so proud of my Idea that the
plan was % ship the honey to Now York, but
soon found there was no need of that. They
mine min NO Sp nIP ike io IN c sSan,i"E Ia and 1ld tsg y, snapp S,
GU shiftless peoule!' ! used to say t,
myrslf when they'd hand me over their good
silver for my honey, to live all yonr lives in
2 country where YOU can get two crops a year,
but never build a hive! Give mo a Yankee for
Wasn't 1t natural for a man To- feel so, with
7.ooo goo people there ali fond OF honey, and
no, q hiVe on the island cxceptm miner
Wei. tho bees put In their finest work that
winter. Yes. must say that FOR them that
nrss winter the little rnscals worked like
IKE wei. IKE bees In a flower patch. and
nothing works harder than that. We kept
.he hlVes well strtpned. mud marketed as good
q CROP as ever | did In Orange county, n. Y,
That was only a beginning you see. The
bees had shown that they could work In win
or course ss me,t tS Ss IN di sHnminGr give them a chance.
Ing SO warm. Now we had the regular sum-
mer crop to look for.
II T.! asked mv.man. 4 got an Idea. and lived
up pit, didn't /? A man who had no ideas.
VINO ha1 no duck nor enternrise, who never
went on to see the world. would be satisfied 10
stay IN orange county and raise his one little
crop a year. But I'm not that sort Of man
was sold, and i had the money in nv DO .ket.
now Tor the regular summer crop. Very like
more used to working in sumner And they Ga
did work! The flowers we're ]nlenticr "G iSnn sH BE-.
seemed as II every f)wcr had it, be gathering
honey for mo. It did me good to watch them;
anu AT night figured up the profits on two
But one day my man came in from tho
hives. and said he:
" They're not making any honey
Not making any honey" exclaimed.
why, Just look ut them. There's a bee Mt
work on every flower
That's all very we'll said he, 'put they're
mot a'oring any honey in the hives. Go and
Then, what are they doing with IT. l
Looks to me as II they were eating IT,,
said he.
so 1 went out to the hives. and. sure
enough. there was not u spoonful Of honey
there; not one spoonful In the whole eighty-six
hiNee; Ind there never was a pound of honey
In all those hives again. No. sir: after the
nrst winter we never got even The start OF a
crop: My Idea was exploded. We split up
the hives afterward to boil our coffee with"
asked; Ian
man replied. '"&y ide eao was ali iN right SiI G as far
as 1t went. but it didn't 90 far enough. II
somebody had told me in the beginning that
becs don't store honey in hot countries. I'd
havo saved my time and money. But they
dan't. because they don't hav. to, They eat
1t as fast rs they make II, because they ca al
ways get material for more. Here they have
to save II up for winter food. bur there they
don't. Thnt'sa point in natural history that
! did not know before. but | know It thor
honey in Cuba, because you cant do it.
How did they lind IL out so soon? III tell
you what l think; | think some meddlesome
native bee saw them at work. and came over
and told them they wer" making dan zed fools
OF themselves: that those iluSers would he
there all the time. and they could make q
!ittle honey whenever they liked. Anyhow.
they found II out.
Yes. / know why the 'shiftless' peoule don't
raise their two crops OF horeS n year. They
can't raise one. l never brought those bees
back; they grew too lazy. Why. they'd a-
tually sit on a leaf and wait for the wind TO
blow a flower toward them. But didn't
Yes. stu go down there every winter: hut it's
lungs. not honey"