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GEORQE W. YORK, Editor. 



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39th YEAR, 



CHICAGO, ILL, JUNE 8, 1899, 



No, 23, 



The Once Famous Linswik Sisters and Their 

 Experience with Bees. 



BY EDWIN BEVINS. 



SOME time ago Editor Hutchinson visited the Linswik 

 sisters at their home in northern Michigan. I am in- 

 debted to one of these sisters — the one with the beauti- 

 ful name — for the metliod I use in rendering beeswax, and 



also for some hints on the wintering of bees, whicli hints 

 I found in a stray number of the Review received long ago. 

 I read the story of the sisters' experience in bee-keeping 

 with considerable interest, also with some surprise and 

 some pleasure. Surprise that their interest in the pursuit 

 has dwindled to the keeping of only tive colonies ; pleasure 

 at knowing that they keep these, and have kept more, partly 

 because of the things connected with the pursuit which 

 they would not sell for cash if they could. 



I am sorry to learn that the sisters are now suffering 

 the penalty for too much early zeal, that a reaction has 

 come, and that weariness has followed endeavor. At the 

 age when I commenced the keeping of bees enthusiasm is 

 dead or dying. A person at that age, if he has been at all 

 observant, has seen too much of life and the world to be 

 any longer the victim of illusions. Whatever is undertaken 

 is apt to be undertaken with more or less of deliberateness 

 and calculation. And yet, I sometimes wish the old boyish 



The Old Home of Two Lady Pioneer Bee-Keepers in Michigan — From the Bee-Keepers' Review. 



