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will ilo exactly' this thiny, but the point 

 is, will it answer the purposes for 

 which wires are used, aside from that 

 of sajri^-insj when swarms are hived 

 upon full sheets of foundation? If I 

 were going' to have full sheets of me- 

 dium brood foundation drawn out be- 

 tween other combs in established col- 

 onies, I would not need to wire the 

 frames to prevent sagging, but I want 

 the wires to support the combs when 

 extracting the honey while the combs 

 are new, or if colonies are to be 

 shipped or moved about the countr3'. 

 I shall be glad to hear from an}'^ of ni}' 

 subscribers who have had experience 

 along this line, or from anv'one who 

 has any suggestions to offer. 



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We Will Have Over 400 Colonies in (he 

 Raspberry Regions of Michigan. 



How the flow of events, one following 

 so quickly upon the heels of another, 

 sometimes changes our plans. Six 

 months £igo I had no idea that I should 

 have any bees in Northern Michigan 

 the coming season. I thought I might 

 have in a year or two; but repeated 

 visits to that region, and consultations 

 with men owning bees in that locality, 

 finallj' led me to the decision that I 

 would establish an apiary there the 

 coming season. I had not much more 

 than out-lined my plans in the Decem- 

 ber Review, than I received a letter 

 from Mr. W. E. Forbes, of Plainwell, 

 Michigan, saying that he would like to 

 put an apiary in that region if he 

 could find some good man to run it. 

 Like a flash, it came to me that / might 

 just as well care for 200 colonies as for 

 100, and I entered into correspondence 

 with Mr. Forbes; finallj' made him a 

 visit, and now have a contract to man- 

 age 100 colonies of bees for him, on 

 shares, for three years, in Northern 

 Michigan, and will move them up there 

 in the spring. 



On my way home from Plainwell, I 

 stopped at Jackson, and attended the 



IMichigan State conven'ion. There I 

 met my friend, Fred B. Cavanagh, of 

 Missaukee County, who has nearly 

 completed a course in mechanical en- 

 gineering at the Agricultural College, 

 but is now assistant superintendent at 

 at the Jackson Gas Co., with a pros- 

 pect of some day becoming superin- 

 tendent, at a tempting salary', and 

 who has over 300 colonies of bees 

 which he was intending to move into 

 the raspberry- region the coming sea- 

 son (having moved part of them last 

 fall) and he probably would have taken 

 this step had not the Gas Co. captured 

 him. The problem was, what to do 

 with the bees. He, too, wanted to 

 find some man to work them on shares. 

 I took this matter under consideration, 

 slept on it, and then took his bees, too, 

 and am to move the rest of them north 

 in the spring. 



Some of you may wonder how I am 

 g-oing to manage so man3' bees. Well, 

 I'll tell you. My brother Ehner, who 

 has three boys, nearly, if not quite, 

 man-grown, is going to move into 

 Northern Michigan in the spring, and 

 he and his boys, advised and assisted 

 by myself will manage these bees to a 

 T. Elmer was with me three years 

 when he first took up bee-keeping, and 

 has kept bees ever since in connection 

 with farming; now he is going to drop 

 farming and make a specialty of bee- 

 keeping. 



Seeing that we are to have so man3^ 

 bees in the raspberrj' regions, and that 

 it will be quite a job to move them all 

 up there, I shall keep my own bees 

 here at home this year, and work them 

 for extracted hone}' — perhaps sell a 

 few colonies in the spring — see adver- 

 tising columns. This will enable me 

 to have bees in two widely different 

 localities — one clover, und one rasp- 

 berry. 



-Ml of our successes and failures will 

 be told of in the Review, that others 

 maj' profit thereby. 



