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and the wonderful interest shown in 

 discussing- the problem of how to have 

 populous colonies early in the season, 

 that the best advantage mig-ht be taken 

 of the red raspberry bloom. 



THK WONDKKKUr. AND UNIFORM YIKI>nS 

 OF NOKTHKRN MICHIGAN. 



The next year t attended another 

 rheeting- of bee-keepers held in that part 

 of the State, only further north, at Bel- 



sistently than I ever did those of any 

 other convention. If a man that I had 

 cornered got away, I immediately cor- 

 ralled another. The man who occupied 

 the room with me at the hotel, where we 

 stopped, was snoring- when I asked my 

 last qviestion. Then I went home with 

 Mr. Chapman and stayed a day or twoj 

 looked over the ground from which his 

 honey was g^athered, and listened to the 

 ups and downs of his apicultural life; 



PATCH OF MILKWEED liV THE UOADSIDE. 



In some parts of Northern Michigan milkweed furnishes an abundance of pasturage. In 1902, Mr. 

 Ira D Hartlett secured 75 pounds per colony from milkweed alone. The plant grows freely by the 

 roadside, in openings, and really becomes a weed in crops that cannot be cultivated — oats, for in- 

 stance. It is about as difiRcnlt to eradicate as a Canada thistle. The honey is of good body, light in 

 color and has a flavor similar to the odor from the blossom — something like vanila. 



laire, Antrim County, and again I was 

 surprised at the imiformly g^ood yields 

 reported, and upon inquiry as to the 

 source, the reply was almost invariably 

 "raspberries. " Occasionally someone 

 would add milkweed, or basswood, or 

 willow herb. I believe I quizzed the 

 members of tliat convention more per- 



Ked raspberries and bees have certain- 

 ly pulled his feet out of the slougMi of 

 debt. I became thoroug-hly satisheil 

 that this reg-ion was the best place I had 

 yet seen for the production of honey; but 

 I wanted to see it with my own eyes, 

 wlion the harvest was in full swing.,so. 

 last July, with camera and iiencil, I 



