THE fiEE-KEEt>ERS' REVIEW. 



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NORTHERN MICHIGAN A PARADISE FOR 

 BEE-KEEPERS. 



"Hells' dingdong, 

 And choral song. 

 Deter the bee 

 Kroni industry; 

 Hill hoot of owl, 

 .\nd wolf's long howl,' 

 Incite to moil 

 And steady toil." 



Northern M'chig-an, the home of the 

 huckleberry and tlie .speckled trout, 

 where the wild deer ilrinks deep from 

 little .sparkling- lakes with white, peb- 

 bly beaches, where forests of mag"nifi- 

 cent beech and ma]-ile stretcli away for 



miles unbroken, where still lingers 

 some of Nature's wildness, here is 

 proven the truthfulness of our opening- 

 adage— here is a veritable paradise for 

 the bee-keeper. PVum Canada to Cali- 

 fornia have we sought for the Eldorado, 

 only to find, as is often the case, that 

 it lies at our very door. 



Three years ago I jittended, at Trav- 

 erse Cit}', a meeting of the Michigan 

 State Bee-keepers' Association, and 

 two things struck me quite forcibly: 

 The uniformly good yields reported. 



LAKE OF THE WOODS, Antrim County, Mich. 



Perhaps a few can imagine the longing there is in the heart of the editor of the Review to build 

 himself a real log cabin, with stone fireplace and chimney, on the shore of some one of the beautiful 

 little inland lakes of Northern ;\Iichigan, establish an apiary hard bj', right in the woods, and pass 

 at least a portion of each summer in that sylvan retreat. What a place to takebee-keejjing friends in 

 the autumn, when the evenings could be pas.sed around a fire of blazing pine knots in the fireplace. 



