. Gleanings in bee culture. tural exhibits, the extent and size ofwhich will be commensurate with the needsand desires of the bee-keepers who will ex-hibit. Mr. F. A. Converse, Superintendent oflive stock, dairy, and agricultural products, isdeeply interested in this imDortant branch ofrural husbandry, and the apiarists are most for-tunate that their interests have fallen underhis excellent supervision. 1106 D. S. Morgan Building, Buffalo, N. Y. GLIMPSES OF CUBA AND CUBAN BEE-KEEPING. BY A. L. BOYDEN. For some time past the readers of Glean-ings have seen frequent articles by differentwriters
. Gleanings in bee culture. tural exhibits, the extent and size ofwhich will be commensurate with the needsand desires of the bee-keepers who will ex-hibit. Mr. F. A. Converse, Superintendent oflive stock, dairy, and agricultural products, isdeeply interested in this imDortant branch ofrural husbandry, and the apiarists are most for-tunate that their interests have fallen underhis excellent supervision. 1106 D. S. Morgan Building, Buffalo, N. Y. GLIMPSES OF CUBA AND CUBAN BEE-KEEPING. BY A. L. BOYDEN. For some time past the readers of Glean-ings have seen frequent articles by differentwriters with reference to the state of bee-keep-ing in Cuba. These articles have fired mewith a desire to visit that country, and see formyself the conditions as they exist there, notonly with reference to bee keeping, but relat-ing to other industries as well. Accordingly, on the morning of Dec. 20 thesteamer Curityba brought me in sight of Ma-tanzas, 60 miles east of Havana, a beautifulcity of 75,000 inhabitants. I found very few. BRIDGE AT MATANZAS. Americans in Matanzas, and experienced somelittle difficulty the first day or two in makingmy wants known. I soon found my way tothe store of Thos. D. Crews, formerly of Flor-ida, now a merchant in that place, and he gaveme much valuable information. After visit-ing him I took a stroll about the city. I firstwent out on the roof of the hotel Paris,from which point I could see all of the cityand surrounding country very well indeed. Agreat many of the buildings are provided with means of access to the roofs. The roofs aremade of brick or tile, mainly of the latter. Ifound one of the railway stations, and theyard adjoining, very similar to those in ourlarge cities of the Northern States. Thestreets of the city are very narrow, thoughnot as narrow as those in Havana, and thesidewalks are in proportion, being only eigh-teen to twenty-four inches wide in many windows of the dwelling-houses, stores,and hotels are tall and wide, with
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