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desirable pulp wood in the United States, probably in the world. 

 Its suitability for growing- these woods, combined with the non-agri- 

 cultural character of much of the land, promises to develop the in- 

 dustry into great importance. If we are wise we will make it a 

 perpetual and not a transient industry. 



The cultivation of forests for pulp wood is a much simpler 

 matter than the growing of log timber. The important points being 

 location, transportation, a stand of desirable species and protection 

 from fire. In our state is no lack of ground from which transporta- 

 tion is facilitated by stream or rail. Stands of aspen are indigenous 

 and are even har.d to prevent, while white and black spruce are 

 among our hardiest trees. We may in a few years even hide the 

 stumps of our former pine forests by a valuable new forest of pulp 

 wood if (a great if, that has always stood in the road to our greatest 

 prosperity), if we keep out the fire. 



SOMETHING OF INTEREST TO BEEKEEPERS AND 

 HORTICULTURISTS. 



A discussion. 



Mr. J. S. Trigg (Iowa) : I would like to ask whether it is true 

 that some people are born with a bee instinct ; whether some people 

 carf keep bees and others cannot. In my own case I have a great 

 respect for the bees, but they have nothing but a never ending hatred 

 and animosity for me ; they always sting me when I go around the 

 hive. There is something very attractive about bees. For instance, 

 you can go and lie down in a hammock on a warm day and listen 

 to the humming of the bees and know that they are robbing your 

 neighbor's orchard of all the honey it produces, and it always makes 

 it of a better flavor to know that that neighbor is working hard in 

 the hot sun planting corn while your bees are making a matter of 

 $2.75 a day for you, and you have nothing to do but to lie there 

 and take it all in. That feature commends itself to me. I know 

 nothing that equals it, unless you have a hundred old hens and you 

 can lie down in the straw stack while they shell out a couple of dol- 

 lars worth of eggs for you to take to the city and sell. You can rob 

 a bee time and again, and it does not mind it, but he does sting, so 

 I cannot keep bees. What the reason is I don't know ; I would like 

 to keep them if I could. If some beekeeper would tell me the fault 

 I would be glad to have him do so. I presume a man has to be 

 born the bee way or there is no use trying to keep them. Thus it 

 might be said I don't like their way of governftient. They have a big 



