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Mr. Kindig.— July, yes, just about as near the first of July as 

 possible. 



The President. — I am sure we have enjoyed Mr. Kindig's talk, 

 at least I have, very much. If there are no further questions, we will 

 hear from Mr. MacNeill. 



Mr. Lathrop. — Mr. Chairman, just a word. I feel as though I 

 ought to corroborate what Mr. Kendig said, because I was in that 

 country, and I did not go there for bee-keeping either, although I have 

 been a bee-keeper for thirty-five years. I went up to fifteen miles 

 north of Iron Mountain, Michigan, to fish for brook trout the middle 

 of July, a year ago last July, and I saw the conditions there. The 

 bloom was all out, it was a cut-over country, and it is clay. Have 

 you been in the Iron Mountain district? 



Mr. Kindig.— Yes. 



Mr. Lathrop. — Well, that is what I saw. I ^\ish I could tell 

 all I did see, because I saw things there that I did not understand. I 

 saw clovers there that I never saw in this soil and I did not know the 

 name. I saw every clover that T ever saw in my life in south Wisconsin 

 and I saw others that I had never seen before, and growing in the brush. 

 You could walk through a tract of country there and there would be 

 low growth, and you would see a red patch shining there, that would 

 be red clover, and then you would see another patch by itself, white, 

 just as white as snow, partly under the brush, partly in the open, that 

 would be white clover; and then you would see a pink patch, and that 

 would be alsike, and then you would see white sweet clover and yellow 

 sweet clover and other clovers. I knew they were clovers. 



A Member. — Anj^ crimson clover? 



Mr. Lathroi.— Well, I have seen it, but I won't say positively; 

 but I think it was there. And in this same district there was lots of 

 basswood, there were all the varieties there, the most beautiful bass- 

 wood and hard maple as well as pine. Of course the pine was being 

 cut off very rapidly. And I felt as though I ought to go there and put 

 in some bees, but I have many things, many other irons in the fire, 

 and I haven't got around to it yet. 



A Member. — How about the bears robbing your bee, hives up 

 there? 



Mr. Kindig. — Well, the bees are up there in places, but the bear 

 is afraid of civilization. You don't have to go out of civilization to 

 keep bees up there. 



The President. — Anything further? 



A Member. — That may be all right, but Indiana has got some 

 pretty good country too. 



The President. — Mr. MacNeill. 



Mr. MacNeill. — In "Gleanings" for August of last j^ear there 

 was a little editorial by the editor in regard to a practice by a Mr. J. 

 N. Harris of St. Louis, Michigan, I believe, in regard to double extract- 

 ing, which is defined to be leaving the combs for, in his experience, 

 five to six weeks after they were first extracted, until they would have 

 accumulated some moisture and be extracted again. Since that time 

 I have not seen anything in regard to it except a little note by Dr. 

 Miller in regard to the time which the combs should be left, in which 



