Jan. 1, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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ine there are more vexatious. For instance, 

 we are haviog swarms every day, bees do not 

 behave half so regular as in California. Just 

 Ihinlc ot it, bees swarming in December! 



Your humble servant is against another pro- 

 position. Bee-keeping is an all-the-year- 

 round grind here, not much let-up. In Cali- 

 fornia we had 4 months ot labor and 8 months 

 of rest. •'. H. Maktin. 



Cuba, Dec. 5. 



A Report for 1 902. 



With ISO colonies of bees in the spring, I 

 increased to 206 which I put into winter quar- 

 ters Nov. 2ti. I harvested .iOTO pounds of 

 honey, which is all sold at 10 cents a pound. 

 A. L. Beaudin. 



Chateauguay Co., Quebec. 



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A Plucky Cuban Bee=Keeper. 



Editor Hill, says of Col. tianzalo Ciarcia 

 Vieta, in the American Bee-Keeper ; 



Without previous knowledge of the busi- 

 ness, the Colonel purchased the apiary estab- 

 lished on the south coast of Cuba by the 

 editor of The Bee-Keeper some sixteen years 

 ago. During the late war the Spanish burned 

 all his bees, which numbered about 2,000 

 colonies, and also his very complete apiarian 

 equipment. Since then, however, Col. Vieta 

 has gone up again like a rocket, and now has 

 about 1,S00 colonies, in five or six apiaries, 

 scattered through the mountains. Since his 

 return to Cuba, we are advised that even be- 

 fore the bellflower had begun to bloom, about 

 15 tons of honey had been extracted. The 

 prospect for 150 tons of honey this winter is 

 very favorable ; and the colonel's enterprise 

 is deserving of all the success which may 

 come to him. 



Our Consumption of Sugar. 



The people of the United States now con- 

 sume eight times as much sugar per capita as 

 they did in the first quarter of the last cen- 

 tury, four times as much as the average per 

 capita during the decade ending with 1850, 

 and twice as much as they did in any year 

 prior to 1S70. In the years immediately prior 

 to 1825 the average consumption of sugar was 

 about 8 pounds per capita; in the decade 

 1840-.50 about 16 pounds per capita; in the 

 years immediately prior to 1870 the average 

 was about 32 pounds per capita, (omitting 



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