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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1 



timber have been lumbered off, there springs 

 up a growth of the wild red raspberry that 

 is simply incomparable as a honey-producer. 

 Having found such a hard-timbered tract, 

 there are several points to be considered in 

 the selection of a site for an apiary. First, 

 an old-settled country is of no value unless 

 lumbering is going on in that neighborhood, 



because the farmers cut the timber off slick 

 and clean, and plow up the ground. Of 

 course, there will be a fringe of berries 

 around the edges of clearings, along fences, 

 etc., and a few colonies would probably find 

 plenty of honey; but the man who is going 

 to bring in several hundreds of colonies must 

 find some place back away from the cleared 









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FIG. 2. — THE WILD HKl) RASPBERRY IN ALL ITS GLORY. 

 The timber has been lumbered off, or cut for furnace wood, and the berries have completely covered the ground. 



