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GT.EANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Cut No. 2 ifives a view of tlic back door. 

 After we had been a month or more in a 

 sing'le room 14x20 we concluded we outi;-ht 

 to have a little room by itself for the cook- 

 stove. We had 

 a few boards 

 and shing-les 

 left, and so I 

 made a wood- 

 shed that you 

 see just under 

 the window. 

 This woodshed 

 communicates 

 with the cellar 

 under the floor 

 of the main 

 building, so the 

 wood can be 

 pushed throuo^h 

 right under the 

 trap - door in 

 front of the 

 kitchen stove as 

 I have explain- 

 ed. The back 

 yard was ni>t 

 slicked up as I 

 meant to ha\i 

 it. We did nui 

 get many sun- 

 shiny days in 

 November ; so 

 when the sun 



came out from the clouds, I got my camera 

 hastily and took it just as it was. At the 

 right-hand corner you get a glimpse of the 



thought it would not burn very fast; but, 

 notwithstanding, it was so hot we could 

 hardly touch the panes of glass in the win- 

 dows of the buildings, and the shingles be- 



DIGGING POTATOES IN THE TRAVERSE REGION. 



gan to smoke. Had the wind swung around 

 so as to blow toward the building while 

 the heat wiis at its greatest (the flames 



went almost as 

 high as the tall 

 forest trees), 

 I do not think 

 anything could 

 have saved our 

 little home; and 

 the wind did 

 swing around 

 right toward 

 the bu i 1 d i n g 

 about 20 min- 

 utes after the 

 fire was at its 

 height. After 

 two such expe- 

 riences I think 

 I shall be more 

 careful about 

 burning big 

 log-heaps or lo- 

 cating them so 

 near the dwell- 

 ing after this. 

 The white spot 

 near the build- 

 ing is where 

 there was a 

 heap of white 

 sand — some w^e 

 drew up from 

 the bay to build the chimne}'. Although 

 the soil is all more or less sandy, it is 

 nothing like that very white sand that 



THE HILBERT FAMILY IN THIC POTATO-FIELD 



remains of the big log-heap. We waited 

 for a day when the wind was away from 

 the house. It was wet and snowy, so we 



