. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1002 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 225 A VISIT FROM COL. VIETA. We have recently had a most enjoy- able, though brief visit from Col. Gan- zalo Garcia Vieta, one of Cuba's most extensive producers of honey. With- out previous knowledge of the business, the colonel purchased the apiary estab- lished on the south coast of Cuba by the editor of The Bee-Keeper, some sixteen years ago. During the late war the Spanish burned all his bees, which numbered about 2,000 colonies, and also his very complete apiarian equipment. Since then, however, Col. Vieta has go
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1002 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 225 A VISIT FROM COL. VIETA. We have recently had a most enjoy- able, though brief visit from Col. Gan- zalo Garcia Vieta, one of Cuba's most extensive producers of honey. With- out previous knowledge of the business, the colonel purchased the apiary estab- lished on the south coast of Cuba by the editor of The Bee-Keeper, some sixteen years ago. During the late war the Spanish burned all his bees, which numbered about 2,000 colonies, and also his very complete apiarian equipment. Since then, however, Col. Vieta has gone up again like a rocket, and now has about l.^'^OO colonies, in five or six apiaries, scattered through the mountains. Since his return to Cuba, we are advised that even before the bellflower had begun to bloom, about 15 tons of honey had been ex- tracted. The prospect .for 150 tons of honey this winter is very favorable; and the colonel's enterprise is deserving of all the success which may come to him. With their apiaries conveniently lo- cated about and near their homes, it is improbable that many American bee- keepers appreciate the difificulties un- der which bee-keepers of the Cuban mountains have to labor. Colonies of bees, supplies, the honey produced, and all incidentals have to be "packed" up- on the backs of horses, mules or oxen, along the mountain trails, a great dis- tance, to and from the apiaries. Think of having to "pack" 200 tons of honey in this way to the seashore, thence thirty or forty miles by boat to a shipping point. Do Americans rec- ognize no competition in people who display such remarkable pluck and en- terprise'-* Everything about Colonel Vieta's apiaries was of the most im- proved order; steam power for extract- ing, and an automatic system of con- veying the combs from the apiaries to the extracting house, or room. The new equipment will doubtless be even more complete and much more exten- sive. One case, of two cans on each
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