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Show CUBAN HONEY. ' The Journal of Science and Art aays there were 9.726,665 ' pounds of honey and 1,675,350 pounds of beeswax exported from Quba in 1909, and a great increase in the business is expected. W have our doubts about any increase. Press Wand put hi fortune in beea and took them to Honolulu, reasoning that if - raising honey in the United States was profitable it would be -vastly more profitable in a country where the bee eould work every day in the year. But his beet worked until, according to their calculation, winter should set in, then, they ceased work and ate their honey and then took to the woods. Wand came back in the steerage and so long as he lived was ready at any time to swear that beea were like men, that they were d d dirty loafers and would not work unless. un-less. they had to. '. |