PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 Cason. Mad Folsom, Charles Carmon. and a 

 score of others that were very successful bee 

 hunters. They were all old timers who had fol- 

 lowed the business for years. Sawyer was green 

 at bee hunting as 1 said before, but he hit on a 

 scheme that worhed and laid the old bee hunters 

 in the shade. He was always a lucky hunter. 

 Good luck seemed always at his hand. No 

 matter what the game was he pursued, he al- 

 v/ays was sure to bag it, and so the same luck 

 followed him iu the bee hunting business. He 

 found two or three trees, cut them, and they pro- 

 ved good, getting from sixty to one-hundred and 

 fifty pounds per tree. Being a good season for 

 honey, as there were lots of wild flowers for the 

 bees to work on. Sawyer concieved the idee to 

 mark every tree that he found that had a hole in 

 it, to mark them all bee trees, generally picking 

 on trees that were easily climbed. He had a 

 pair of climbers made something on the order 

 that telegraph linemen use. He had everything 

 in readiness and just as soon as the frost came 



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