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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1 



Since the death of Mr. Wilkiu, a little 

 over a year ag"0, the Mclntyres have moved 

 to Ventura. The illustration shows their 

 beautiful city residence, and it is safe to 

 saj' that there is not a more prosperous bee- 

 keeper in all California. 



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RAMBLE 205. 



The Two Harrys; Learning Spanish ; Coggshail's 



Honeyhouse ; the Honey=flow in Cuba ; 



Hunting Alligators. 



BY RAMBLER. 



I knew I should have a real g-ood time 

 with the two Harrys (Harry Howe and 

 Harry Beaver), for you know they are from 

 New York, and all New Yorkers are jolly 

 good fellows. 



As before published, Harry Howe has ta- 

 ken to his home one of the fair daughters of 

 Cuba, and proposes to make his residence 

 and his fortune in Cuba; and it is a fact 

 that his residence has a very homelike ap- 

 pearance — much more so than the homes of 

 those bee-men who are baching or are allow- 

 ing their culinary matters to be conducted 

 by^Cuban or colored help. Harry Beaver 

 has this happy example alwaj's before him 

 for he boards and lodges under the same 

 roof; and there is no telling when another 

 of Cuba's fair daughters will be keeping 

 house for another "Americano." 



Although the two Harrys have separate 

 interests they "exchange work" a good 

 share of the time, and that is a very agree- 

 able feature, especially where one or both 

 are not familiar with the Spanish lan- 

 guage. Harry Howe is quite proficient, 

 however, in the language; and all new 



comers who are bachelors are advised to do 

 as did Harry Howe — get married; for, by 

 so doing, the learning of the language 

 would be hastened. Any way, we will al- 

 low Harry Beaver to work out his own des- 

 tiny with the fair sex while we proceed to 

 show one of the Coggshall apiaries over 

 which he presides. It is nicely located 

 within a stone's throw of the calzada, a few 

 kilometers west of Artamisa. There is 

 nothing' unsual about it except those noble 

 palm-trees in the background, and the palm 

 honej'-house. The door to this house had 

 a large hole in it, and it was hung on one 

 hinge, or, rather, tied with a string at the 

 bottom. I had to prop it to make it stay 

 put for the photo. I saw the lightning op- 

 erators at work here, and they considered 

 the door of such little use that it was left 

 wide open, and hanging by one hinge — 

 string. 



Afterward I passed the apiary when the 

 Harrys were not there, and took a photo of 

 the interior. The extractor and wheelbar- 

 row were tipped up sidewise to allow the 

 bees free access for cleaning up things. 

 Those barrels, or bocoys, are ever present 

 in a honey-house in Cuba, and are filled 

 rapidl}'. I would call attention, also, to 

 the open work at the other end of the house. 

 Now, you must not think that Harr}' Bea- 

 ver is at all remiss in his duties. He is 

 not. He follows the instructions of Mr. 

 Coggshall, and he alone is to blame for 

 such an open-work honey-house. Another 

 apiary, further along on the calzada, is 

 supplied with the same sort of honey-house, 

 or more so, if any thing. Now that I feel 

 myself evened up with Coggshall and his 

 sack of fleas I will proceed to say that the 

 Coggshall extractor is used, and this was 



COGGSHALL'S LOS MANGUS APIARY. 



