1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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land: oi-, at least, where the hard 

 timber has not been lumbei'ed off, 

 and has not yet been sold for 

 farms. 



Still another point: it is not 

 until land has been lumbered 

 some two or three years that the 

 berries are sullieient in number or 

 growth to be valuable as honey- 

 producers. 



If lire runs through and burns 

 up the berries they seldom come 

 in again and grow so rank as 

 when the brush, tree-tops, logs, 

 etc., acted as a sort of mulch. 

 After the sawlogs have been cut 

 on a tract, there is more or less 

 small timber left, and this shades 

 the ground to a great extent, and 

 greatly improves the raspberry 

 pasturage — promotes a more 

 rank growth, and prolongs the 

 time of bloom. Let the location 

 be what it may, it is only a ques- 

 tion of time when the under- 

 growth will come up and run out 

 the berries. 



It will be seen that raspberries 

 are not a permanent source of 

 supply, like clover A large share 

 of Northern Michigan is still cov- 

 ered with hard timber, but it is 

 being lumbered off at a great 

 rate, and a man located there 

 would be able, by shifting about, 

 to have apiaries in exactly the 

 right kind of locations. I have 

 seen locations that have passed 

 their prime, others that were 

 right in their "glory," so to 



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FIG. 3. — EXCELLENT UASPBERRY PASTURAGE. 



This area has not been burned over; scattering trees furnishing 

 shade, and logs and brush act as a mulch. 





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4.— POOR RASPBERRY PASTURAGE, 

 ground has been burned over— no shade. 



speak, and still others 

 that were lumbered off 

 only last winter. In 

 some parts of North- 

 ern Michigan, lumber- 

 men put out systems 

 of narrow-gauge rail- 

 roads, with numerous 

 branches, in the hard- 

 timbered districts, and 

 all along these roads 

 are choppings of dif- 

 erent degrees of "ripe- 

 ness." 



But these choppings 

 are back away from 

 civilization, and the 

 only buildings that are 

 available are log shan- 

 ties at deserted lum- 

 ber - camps, most of 

 which have been rob- 

 bed of their roofs for 

 the sake of getting the 

 lumber. The man who 

 goes into Northern 

 Michigan to produce 

 raspberry honey must 

 expect to "rough it" 

 to some extent, and 



