1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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cell 1-5 of an inch in diameter, in 35, 

 or 40 years, (or so,) would leave a 

 "pretty small " hole. 



can walk over a plowed field here 

 when wet without carrying 20 lbs. of 

 mud on each foot. So this you see 

 will make the transportation of artil- 

 lery almost impossible only by rail. 

 This Island is very rich. A garden 

 spot planted and replenished by nat- 

 ure from whose soil crops are grown 

 constantly without rest or manuring. 



It should by all means belong to 

 Uncle Sara, and I think before that 

 youngster in Spain is old enough to 

 rule he will be relieved from the 

 troubles and tribulations the ruling 

 over these people would bring to him. 



Whenever the day comes when 

 Uncle Sam says " if we cannot buy 

 Cuba in peace, then we will take her 

 by force, " when he puts on his silk 

 hat, his long-tailed coat, and buckles 

 down his pants, and dabs a little war 

 paint on his temples and goes out for 

 a stioU, leading his little cannon, why 

 then Miss Spain, look out how you 

 fire shots across our bows, and be- 

 cause we don't heed you, plow the 

 heaving bosom of old Atlantic in the 

 vain hopes of overtaking an Ameri- 

 can greyhound of the seas. 



My last words are, "look out and 

 don't let your blood boil over into the 

 sea and be floated down here for the 

 people who love the stars and stripes 

 might take it as a challange to fight. 



Punta Brava, Cuba, June 1, 1895. 



Current Comments. 



BY H. E. HILL. 



It takes a "right smart " of senti- 

 mentality, though 24 carats fine, to 

 tip the beam against a means of liv- 

 lihood, " these times. " 



If sentimentalisra is the strongest 

 argument that can be adduced in op- 

 position to the importing, or migra- 

 tory (or annihilation, if you please) 

 system of management, by which, ac- 

 cording to the originator's experience, 

 the specialist may render his avoca- 

 tion more lucrative, it is now in order 

 that one advance step be accredited 

 to John McArthur, of Toronto, Out. 



To pharaphase H. G. Osborn, of 

 Cuba: The prosperity which former- 

 ly obtained in that verdant isle of 

 tropical splendor and bloody insurrec- 

 tions, has forsaken it. A foul brood 

 scourge, natural recources being su- 

 perseded by cultivated fields and a 

 40 per cent decrease in the price of 

 honey. The former is indeed, deplor- 

 able, lo siento muchisimo. The second, 

 is doubtless of but local moment, as 

 it would seem that the ambitious 

 hooey producer, while the latter 

 might be attributed to the manipula- 

 tions of middle-men, without serious 

 danger of injustice. 



The 200 or 250 (or so) cocoons 

 which would be nested inside of a 



"It is estimated that to produce a 

 single perfect strawberry from one 

 hundred to double or triple that num- 

 ber of independent fertilizations must 

 be accomplished. If fertilization 

 fails, instead of a lucious berry we 

 have a hard, shrunken, greenish 

 mass. — Bee Master, in A. B. J. The 

 moral is obvious, and anything from 

 Bee- Master's edifying quill is pretty 

 sure to merit a degree of thought, at 

 least. Notwithstauding that novi de 

 plume, beliind which his identity is 



