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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



the proceeds of the apiary; but I happen 

 to know that such isn't the case. This 

 does not alter the fact, however, that 

 these ladies have been very successful iii 

 keeping bees. I, myself, from first to last, 

 have paid them several hundreds of dol- 

 lars for bees. The honey that they pro- 

 duce is certainly as fine as any I have 

 seen. They use the Doolittle hive and 

 white popular, nailed, two-pound sec- 

 tions. Separators are used and the sec- 



could be easily turned back, or else the 

 ordinary broad shade-board was used in- 

 stead. 



At my most earnest and repeated solic- 

 itation, one of these ladies has consented 

 to write a few lines descriptive of those 

 pioneer days; and you little know with 

 what pleasure they are appended. 



OUR log house — christened "Forest 

 Home " by our dear father, at the "rais- 



PRESENT HOME OF CYULA LINSWIK AND HER SISTER. 



tions are scraped scrupulously clean with 

 pieces of glass l)efore the honey is crated. 

 They have also had most excellent success 

 in wintering their bees packed in chaff. 

 One special feature should be mentioned. 

 The cover to the hive is remoevd and a 

 cap filled with chaff substituted. In the 

 top of this cap is cut a hole nearly a foot 

 square. This allows all moisture to es- 

 cape. To prevent mice from entering, 

 these holes are covered with wire cloth. 

 To keep out the storms there is a rough 

 roof over each hive. This roof is also 

 used in summer as a shade. I believe 

 that when there were more bees kept the 

 roof was hinged and supported so that it 



ing" to which had been summoned all 

 the neighbors within nine miles — is thirty 

 years old this fall. On the 6th of next 

 February, at high noon, it will be thirty 

 years since my sister and I caught our 

 first gliuipse of it through tall trees as we 

 neared the end of our journey into the 

 woods; a journey by rail from Central 

 New York to Ingham Co. Mich., and 

 thence, under the care of a relative, a drive 

 of over one hundred miles north to the un- 

 organized township of , in the un- 

 organized county of . 



The first year was strictly pioneer life. 

 A visit to the Post Office meant a twenty 

 mile trip over a road that for eight or nine 



