Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaches two little British tykes, aged seven and eight, on a deserted, gorgeously Technicolored island. Twelve years later, the girl (Jean Simmons) and boy (Donald Houston) are still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...
Across the country, farmers were cautious but content. They had good equipment and money in the bank, the fat of six prosperous years. The total volume of crops was only 6% short of 1948-5 incredible production and 30% above the 1923-32 average. Rice and tree nuts set records. Cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look...
...hunter knows at an early stage approximately where the tree is. To get a better fix, he moves his box, one or more times, closer to the supposed location. Usually, traffic on the beeline gets thicker & thicker as he nears the hive tree...
Bring a Tub. When the tree is found, it is marked. Then, in October, when the bees have stored all the honey they are going to for the season, the tree is cut down, or, as bee hunters say, "taken up." Bring a tub, advises Edgell. "The humiliation of returning [with the tub nearly empty] is as nothing compared to the exasperation of filling a couple of buckets and finding that you have no way of transporting the rest ..." His best haul: 97 Ibs. of honey from one tree...
Author Edgell concedes that in taking up a tree, even with veils, gloves and smudges, a sting'or two must be expected. But he loves wild honey...