TiiK bee-keepf:Rs' review. 



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it, a piece of earth five feet wide and 

 100 feet lonj,--, bearing,'- a cro]! worth 

 $500! The market for g-inseiif^- is in 

 China, where it is ref^arded with a sort 

 of superstitious reverence — supposed to 

 possess unusual curative virtues, in 

 short, a cure-all and a charm combin- 

 ed. Ginseng- is a perennial of slow 

 growth; the root continuing to increase 

 in size for several years. Making a for- 

 tune raising ginseng is rather slow at 

 the start (it takes a 3'ear and a half for 

 the seeds to germinate), but, if one has 



for roots, ;ind probably paid out a good 

 share of his SS,000 for stock. 



IHIC Ki;i) KASl'IilCKKY AND ITS HONKY; 



But I must stop wandering and get 

 down to business. I must take up the 

 feature in wliicli bee-keepers are spec- 

 ially interesteil. When this hard tim- 

 ber is cut off, the wild red raspberries 

 spring up and occupy the ground, and 

 furnish the most reliable bee pasturage 

 there is to be found. The luxuriance 

 of the growth is something wonderful. 

 Many times, in riding along a woods- 



APIAUV A\U HOME OP GEO. II. KIHKPATKICK, Kapid City, Mich. 



A few 3'ea's ago Mr. Kirkpatrick was making a scant living keeping bee.s in Indiana. A visit to 

 Northern Michigan showed him its possibilities, and he was not slow in making the most of them. 

 He now has a farm and the beautiful home and apiary shown above. This year his 138 colonies in- 

 creased to 206 and stored about 13,000 pounds of extracted surplus honey. 



the patience to wait, it is very profit- 

 able in the end. Mr. Chapman told me 

 that he sometimes wished that he had 

 "gone into it" years ago when he be- 

 gan bee-keeping, but he doubted if he 

 should bother with it now. One man 

 near Mr. Chapman's started two years 

 ago, and now has gardens worth !?5,000, 

 but he advertised and posted notices all 

 over the country offering good prices 



road, have I been able to reach out and 

 pick the luscious ripe berries as we 

 passed — the bushes being so tall and 

 bending witli fruit. I supposed that 

 the wild red raspberry blossomed only 

 a week or two, and then was done, but 

 such is not the case. It keeps in bloom 

 fully as long as white clover. It begins 

 the last of Ma.y or the first of June, and 

 when I was there the latter part of July 



