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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



the bees were still working- upon it. If 

 there is a drouth in August, and there 

 are rains and warm weather in Sep- 

 tember, it sometimes blossoms again, 

 and furnishes a second crop of honey. 

 One bee-keeper told me that his daugh- 

 ter visited him the Fourth of July, and 

 they went out and picked enough ber- 

 ries to have a shortcake; in September 

 she came again, and they repeated the 



operation. While the honey is not quite 

 so white as that from clover, it is still 

 classed as a light honey, and has a de- 

 licious raspberrj' flavor. 



The time will probabl}' eventually 

 come when this country will all be 

 cleared up and cultivated, as is the 

 case now in the older portions of the 

 State, but that will be many long years 

 hence. For 20 or 25 years, it is likely 



WILD RED RASPBERRY IN ALL ITS GLORY. 



The timber has been lumbered off. or cut for furnace wood, and the raspberries have complete- 

 ly occupied the ground. Tliis view was taken in Kalkaska County, Michigan, and there are thous- 

 ands of acres in that and adjoining countiesiwhere similar growths of berries each year "waste their 

 sweetne.ss on the desert air"— there are no bees there to gather the nectar, 



