(established 1888) 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 



NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 

 Office OF Pu BLiCATioN - - - 230 Woodlan d Aven u e 



VOL, XXV. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, JULY 1, 1912. No. 7. 



Something About Cuba by a Resident of That 



Country. 



D. W. MILLAR. 



' ■'Jl'T is a pleasure to give you a few truths about Cuba, the richest 

 Jm little country, with the most ideal climate in the world. Alany 

 northern people have a wrong idea about Cuba, thinking it is 

 too hot or too far away or a dozen and one other things, although 

 in many cases they have never been here. It takes just three days 

 from Havana to Xew York, and twelve hours to Key West, either 

 way being a most pleasant and restful trip, as the service is fine. It 

 never gets as hot as you have it, the average temperature in winter 

 being 79, and in summer about 90, and the humidity is not nearly 

 so high as in the north. The nights are always cool,, and you never 

 care to sleep without some covering; there is always a cool breeze 

 blowing during the day, but it never gets cold enough for a frost. 



'Most anything will grow the year around, and there are thous- 

 ands of acres of the richest virgin soil still available here at $5 per 

 acre up, according to location. The average cost of uncleared land 

 in an English speaking colony where there are schools, churches, 

 etc., as at Bartle, is about $50.00 per acre, and titles are gilt-edge, but 

 price ridiculous. The average country Cuban is untrustworthy and 

 is satisfied with an existence if he don't have to work for it. It is 

 second nature with the average uneducated native to steal, and the 

 country people are usually illiterate and among themselves most 

 immoral, but to Americans friendlv, on the surface, and a most hos- 

 pitable people so far as their ability and comprehension will permit. 

 The government is rotten, and no doubt should be short-lived. 



