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colony and inducing prolific brood-rearing. She allows her colonies to 

 swarm naturally. I am not defending this part of her system, but she 

 does it successfully. She hives the swarm on the old stand and moves 

 the old hive a little to one side, with the entrance turned slightly away. 



All the supers are placed on the swarm at the proper time, and the 

 old colony is allowed to raise a young queen if the stock is satisfactory, 

 and if not they are supplied with a virgin or cell from good stock. When 

 this queen begins laying, supers are given as required, and all the honey 

 possible is secured from both colonies in the ordinary manner. 



When the supers are all off, and before cold weather sets in, the 

 two colonies are united by shaking them together, after removing the 

 old queen, which is readily found by reason of having been clipped, and 

 all the honey crammed into the one hive, leaving only one comb in the 

 center, partly empty, for brood-rearing. 



The shaking again stimulates brood-rearing, and by winter a fine 

 colony of young bees are ready for their long nap. 



(In uniting bees by shaking, she has found that it can be done suc- 

 cessfully, even in a dearth, if frames are shaken alternately from each 

 hive and the whole manipulation is performed late in the evening, so that 

 the bees get acquainted before morning.) 



She winters her colonies outdoors with hay cushions over the 

 colonies. 



A Potato Story With a Sequel, 



A person we will call Tabor, but that was not his real name, 

 moved from Indiana a few years ago and located on a farm near us 

 here at Remus. He seemed to be a prosperous fellow, who had be- 

 come ambitious to own a farm of his own, having previously rented, 

 so came here where land w'as more cheaply acquired and bought. 



This man Tabor continued to prosper and was ere many years 

 one of our most successful producers of potatoes and beans, these 

 being our main crop here. 



It would do you good to hear him tell of our (Michigan) pro- 

 ducing 70% of the beans of the United States, for he would seem 

 to grow nearly two inches taller than usual at this time, and it was 

 easy to see that this type of a citizen was of a desirable caliber. 



This particular spring- mentioned, this neighbor had several 

 thousand bushels of potatoes (as is common among our farmers to 

 mention their crop by the thousand bushels) wintered in a large spe- 

 cial constructed cellar. 



It is a fact that potatoes vary greatly in price in different years, 

 some springs selling as low as eight cents a bushel and others as 

 high as $1.25 the bushel. 



The spring I'm writing of potatoes sold at but ten cents the 

 bushel, delivered at our station. 



