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urg-ed him to go, but sug-gested that he stay 

 only during the winter, and go back late 

 in the spring or early summer. At that 

 time he was at Reedley, Cal., where he 

 was taking care of the bees of J. C. McCub- 

 bin. His apiary in Southern Calfornia 

 had not done well, and he had, therefore, 

 gone northward where the seasons were 

 less uncertain. 



He went to Cuba in November, 1901. It 

 was not long before he became interested 



aware that the surrounding conditions were 

 so unhealthy, and probably he was not. 

 But the dreaded malarial mosquito in the 



DIVINING FOR SILVER. 



in the possibilities of Cuban bee-keeping, 

 and decided to start an apiar}'. He pur- 

 chased 100 nuclei, as I have already relat- 

 ed, increased them to 300, and procured a 

 large ciop of honej' besides. I was not 



NO RAMBLER ALLOWED IN HERE. 



locality apparently' got in its deadly work, 

 and the end came all too soon. 



The last correspondence I had with Mr. 

 INIartin was to the effect that the pressure 

 of work would not permit him to go out and 

 get more material for rambles, but that he 

 would prepare a series of articles telling 

 something of his experiences in increasing 

 100 nuclei to 300 colonies, and how he man- 

 aged last summer to secure that big crop of 

 honey. And this reminds me thatMr. Martin 



