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THE A3IERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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possible consistent with its going into 

 the extractor, having the inside so ac- 

 curately made that a given number of 

 sections will fit into it rather tightly, 

 the last one in, when properly made, 

 keying the whole, as it were, so they 

 can be handled as one frame, which 

 simplifies the work very much. Where 

 the combs are not attached to the sides 

 and bottoms of the sections, as many 

 of them are liable not to be, owing to 

 the sections being only partly filled, it 

 is best to turn slowly, until a part of 

 the honey is gone out, when they 

 should be reversed in the extractor, the 

 other side gotten out clean, when they 

 are reversed again and the honey from 

 the first side thrown out clean also. 

 This saves injuring the combs which 

 are only slightly attached to the sec- 

 tions, and where from twelve to twen- 

 ty sections can be placed in one holder. 

 This extra reversing takes but little 

 more time, when perhaps time hangs 

 heavily on one who has been busy all 

 summer. At any rate, I would rather 

 spend my time in that way than in 

 many of the doubtful amusements 

 many enter into to "kill time," as they 

 put it. Then, if these slightly attached 

 sections are sorted out and put through 

 the extractor by themselves, there need 

 be but a few holders full of them to re- 

 verse in this way. 



I have been thus particular in giv- 

 ing the details in this matter of ex- 

 tracting honey in cool weather, so that 

 none who wish to so extract need make 

 a failure, for it is the knowing about 

 the little details of a matter which 

 often makes all the difference between 

 a success or a failure. 

 Borodino, N. Y. 



John Atkinson, in American Bee 

 Journal, appeals pleadingly to the sup- 

 ply manufacturers for a thumb-tack, 

 upon the heads of which he wants plain 

 numerals, letters and abbreviated 

 words that will serve as a record when 

 stuck into hives, frames, etc. 



Northern Michigan. 



Some of the Conditions that have Made it 



an Excellent Honey Producing 



l/ocality. 



"Bells' (ling (long, 

 And choral song. 

 Deter the bee 

 From industry; 

 But hoot of owl, 

 And 'woirs long howl,' 

 Incite tn moil 

 And steady toil." 



Northern Michigan, the home of the 

 pine and the popple, bright with the 

 beauty of the golden rod, gorgeous 

 with the purple of the great willow 

 herb, most emphatically illustrate the 

 truth of the old German couplet that 

 stands at the head of this article. 



Nature, having had things pretty 

 much her own way in this region until 

 quite recently, and having plenty of 

 time at her disposal, proceeded to raise 

 a crop more valuable than Michigan 

 will probably ever again produce- 

 great forests of soft, white pine. But, 

 now, alas! to the stroke of the wood- 

 man's axe, and the song of the circu- 

 lar saw, nearly all of these grand old 

 forests have been fioated down the riv- 

 ers and out upon the sea of commerce. 

 Desolation is the one word that best 

 describes that country from which the 

 lumberman has stripped the pine tim- 

 ber. Stumps, logs, brush and fallen tree 

 tops cover the ground in a confusion 

 that is indescribable; while here and 

 there, in their loneliness, with with- 

 ered limbs outstretched, stand old 

 dead, dry pines— ghosts of former 

 grandeur. 



After the summer's sun has poured 

 down for many days upon this mass of 

 resinous material, only a spark from 

 some settler's clearing starts a fire that 

 sweeps across the country mile after 



