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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



l-'iL'. 1. — Apiar; 



I'l-drtucts ( "(\, l-"(iur I'atlis. .laniaica. 



ure only two restaurants. Outside of King- 

 ston, and especially in the smaller towns, 

 there is not a place where one would care to 

 get a meal, and no i)lace to stay over night. 

 If one decides to go there to keep bees he 

 will have to give uj) many of what we con- 

 sider necessities. But there are unlimited 



rig. 



. — A corner of the American Bee Products Co. "s apiary, .showing the 

 honey-house in the backfrround. The trees shown are logwocjd. 



l)ossihili1ies for capital at .lamaica. A man 

 willing to go there and rough it for a few 

 years can make considerable money in the 

 bee business. 



Fig. 1 is a portion of the apiary of the 

 American Bee Products Co., at Four Paths, 

 about 40 miles from Kingston; and Fig. 2 

 shows the same yard, 

 with the residence and 

 extracting - house. A 

 couple of cots, a few 

 chairs, a table, and 

 cooking utensils con- 

 stitute the furnishing. 

 Ants and loads are 

 troublesome. A nest of 

 ants will clean out a 

 colony in a night, eat- 

 ing honey, larvrt\ and 

 even bees; and toads 

 eat thousands of bees 

 if they are not killed. 

 A lantern and a club, 

 several nights in suc- 

 cession, will rid the 

 yard of the toad nui- 

 sance, and poison will 

 dispose of the ants. 



The flavor of the 

 honey is good, but the 

 l)ody is so m e w h a 1 

 light. Logwood is the 

 principal source. The 

 irees in the illustra- 

 lions are logwoods. 

 < >ther sources of honey 

 are lignum-vit-dc. fiber 

 cotton, canshar. sweet 

 Christmas })oi), genii), 

 mangroves, orjange, 



