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Lake Superior, it is 120 days from frost to frost, more I dare say than 

 it is here in the city of Chicago, and so it compensates in a way. But 

 the cold winds of the early spring and summer and the damp cold fogs 

 coming off of Lake Superior, drifting back overland, make me feel 

 that one should locate some little distance from the lake. I believe 

 I will not take any more of your time, Mr. Chairman. (Applause.) 



A Member. — Where was the man that got 250 pounds of honey per 

 colony of bees? 



Mr. Kindig. — I did not get to see that man. I say he wrote me 

 that. I did not see it myself. I do know this, though, now I will tell 

 you one thing that I do know, that a certain gentleman with 117 

 nuclei, they ran all the way from nuclei to what we would call small 

 colonies, I will tell you how they were wintered. Last winter they were 

 wintered out in single wall hives, without any protection and on the 

 17th or 18th of June I inspected the whole bunch. Then he shipped 

 them to the upper peninsular and I would not have given very much 

 for them for the location where they were any way, because the honey 

 flow was alread}'- on, and he took those to the upper peninsular, divided 

 them and increased to 204, I believe it was, and built them up for 

 winter, and took off 11,000 pounds of honey. So that tells something. 

 Now here is the beauty of the thing — I haven't told half of the story. 



The President. — Go ahead, tell the rest. 



Mr. Kindig. — Because I am afraid these people are not partic- 

 ularly interested in the upper' peninsular, because I am tooting my own 

 horn, I come from Michigan and I think Michigan — I used to think 

 Indiana is the best state in the Union, but I have changed my mind 

 entirely^ Indiana is not one-two-three with Michigan, although Indiana 

 probably stands next. But Michigan has not only the honey resources, 

 but every other sort of good thing too. And the upper peninsular has 

 so many things to say in favor of it. 



Now, over at a certain town— I am going to refuse to give names 

 and places of bee-keepers who are living on the upper peninsular, be- 

 cause they were scared to death when I came up there, they had a good 

 thing and they said, "Now, for goodness' sake don't tell anybody, 

 because thej^ will come right in here and they will crowd me and bring 

 in foul brood." Well, they could see blood right away as soon as they 

 found out who I was and what I was looking for. So I said, "All 

 right, I will not say anthing, you need not worry, this is between you 

 and I," but I did not tell them that I would not mention the upper 

 peninsular. I say there is not much difference, if you get on the clay 

 land, I would not care so much whether you go to Menominee County 

 or over in Chippewa County on the east side, wherever it is most con- 

 venient I would say. Go up there and look around and settle down 

 there. You won't miss it. 



A Member. — How many miles from lake? 



Mr. Kindig. — From Lake Superior? 



The Member. — Yes. 



Mr. Kindig. — Well, I would want to be at least ten miles. I 

 have a very close friend who will take three hundred colonies within 

 two miles of Lake Superior next spring, and I tried last August when 

 I returned to pursuade him that he was making a mistake, because 



