A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR, 

 w. z. HDTCHINSON, Editor and ProDrletor. 



VOL. XIX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, AUG. 15, 1906. NO. 8 



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N©irt]heipfi MicfeMsiiic 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



T LOVE Northern Michi^-an. I love 

 i her bracing- atmosphere and cool, 

 refreshing- nights. I love her pure 

 water that bubbles up in springs and 

 goes babbling away in little brooks 

 with pebbly bottoms. I love her grand 

 old forests of beech and maple. I love 

 her wild berries — the red ones, the 

 blossoms of which furnish such deli- 

 cious honey, the black berries with 

 their glossy black sides, that ripen in 

 great clusters, and have that spicy 

 flavor when they grow in the shade; 

 and the huckleberries that make pur- 

 ple the surface of great desolate plains. 

 I love her innumerable old, grass- 

 grown lumber road-s, that wind hither 

 and thither, and are banked on either 

 hand with the vines of wild berries, or 

 canopied over with the branches of 

 trees. I love her ueivness and 7oi/d- 

 ;/^5.s— and the two weeks that I have 

 just spent in that region have passed 

 like one long, bright holT«flay. 



I first went up to help Elmer build a 

 honey house at one of the yards, but 

 when we reached theBoaidman apiary 

 we found ever3' super full of honej'. 



and the raspberry flow at its height. 

 We set up the extractor in the shanty 

 that is made to answer for a honey 

 house, and went to extracting from the 

 combs that were capped, or nearly so. 

 We threw out about 1,600 pounds, 

 enough to give temporary relief. 



EXTRACTING IN A TENT IS AN UNCOM- 

 FORTABLE MAKE-SHIFT. 



We next went to the Morey yard, 

 where we had expected to build the 

 honey house, and found everything full 

 of honey there. There was no time to 

 build a honey house, and the only pos- 

 sible way out was to set up a tent and 

 extract in that. A tent is a make-shift 

 at best. It is a last resort. If the 

 weather is cool, or if the bees are gath- 

 ering honey so that the tent can be left 

 onen, or if it can be set up in the shade, 

 it is not so bad as it might be, but, if 

 the weather is hot, especially if the 

 sun shines, and the tent must be kept 

 closed to keep out robber bees, it is one 

 of the most insufferable places in 

 which a man ever worked. It is not 

 only hot, but it is close — sufiocating. 



