James Hive-Maker had never harvested so early as that year.
The colonies were so crowded that everyday there was a new swarming.
Images: James Hive-Maker brushes bees off the honeycomb and cuts it up into segments. The displaced bees roar in the sky, then meekly surround a bee-bearding man.
The Mesopotamian Bonanza
Ella Spiralum and Zoltan Abbassid return from their New Mexico honeymoon to find that the Mesopotamian bees are an astounding source of wealth, producing young and honey in prodigious amounts.