153 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL EEPORT OF THE 



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I have built such a fence about my apiary for protection this 

 winter as shown by the photographs. It may be considered experi- 

 mental and too young to crow about. However, the fence is cheap and 

 no one can lose much if it proves to be a failure. It is cheaper than a 

 board fence and it seems as though it must answer the purpose much 

 better. It should also be more effective than an evergreen wind- 

 break. It is there or not there, as you wish and it is not taking the 

 fertility from the soil which may be of greater use in growing food 

 products. It is a long wait, also for the twenty odd years growth 

 required by the evergreens. The stalk windbreak requires but little 

 space and is not bad looking as the photographs show. If it is to be 

 more permanent, grape vines, ivy, or morning glories may be planted 

 and allowed to run up the fence, to add to its beauty. 



Photos tell the story better than words. Figures 1, 2, and 3 

 show the fence twelve feet high on the north and west sides of the 

 bee-yard, figure 4 shows a fence six feet high on the south and east 

 sides of the yard. Figure four also shows how the stalks look from 

 the outside of the fence as compared with figure three which shows 

 the inside of the fence. The stalks were threaded into the wire from 

 the outside between two wires near the top, one in the center, and two 

 near the bottom as a close view of figure three will show. The twelve- 

 foot fence consists of a double width of six-foot wire and two lengths 

 of corn stalks. 



Perhaps most any kind of woven netting would answer the purpose 

 but Figure 5 shows a close view of the kind I used. Notice the twist 

 the nature of which is such that there is plenty of slack to press the 

 wires and make room to pass the stalks between. The wire was listed 

 as poultry and rabbit netting by a mail order house. Six foot high, 

 heavy grade, comes in ten rod bale at 66 cents per rod. The space 

 between the wires is one and one-eighth inches at the bottom and four 

 and one-fourth inches at the top. With this wire the stalks are easy 

 jto thread. The wire plus the labor and stalks and second hand tele- 

 phone poles at 70 cents each made me a cheap "windbreak. 



The President. — Any discussion on this paper? Now while we 

 have Mr. Kindig with us, we would be very glad to have him give us a 

 description of northern Michigan. I understand he has been iiiveti- 

 gating that as a bee location, and I believe that would be interesting 

 to us. Mr. Kindig will favor us with a short talk. (Applause.) 



ADDRESS BY MR. KINDIG. 



I had occasion last summer, as the result of a lot of correspondence 

 that I had had the year before, to go into northern Michigan, the 

 upper peninsular, as it is known. I had received some letters from 

 there that sounded to me as though it must be a wonderful location. 

 For instance, one man from the eastern part of the peninsular had 

 written me that he had received an average of 284 sections per colony 

 for his twelve colonies of bees. 



Well, now, I could not stand anything like that without investi- 

 gating it, and so I went up there. And to give you briefly what I 



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