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NOTES FROITI THE BANNER APIARY. 



No. 44. 



A VISIT TO "OUR CLEARING," THE HOME OF " CYULA 

 LINSWIK." 



fT will be remembered that, in the Feb. Glean- 

 ings, Gyula Linswik stated their determination 

 ' to sell, or give away, every one of their 75 colo- 

 nies; well, it might not have been the reading of my 

 last article, " From 60 to 16," that led Cyula and her 

 sister to think that I would be glad to buy their bees, 

 but, be that as it may, soon after its appearance I 

 received a letter offering me 30 of the colonies upon 

 very liberal terms; and Monday morning, June 11, 

 found me en nmtc for the bees. The four hours 

 that I had to wait in East Saginaw for a train, were 

 very pleasantly and profitably spent in visiting Dr. 

 L. C. Whiting and J. H. Weliington and O. J. Heth- 

 erington. Dr. Whiting has about 30 colonies in the 

 little yard back of his house. 



importance of spring PACKING. 



Dr. W. showed me one colony, the frames of 

 which had been covered two weeks with wire cloth, 

 the purchaser not having come for the bees when 

 expected, and there was a loss of at least two combs 

 of brood. Although it is getting a little ahead of 

 my story, I think I will say right here that the bees 

 at "Our Clearing" were snugly packed all the 

 spring with quilts and cushions, many of which had 

 not been removed when I was there, and the hives 

 were overflowing with bees. Taken upon an aver- 

 age, the colonies were stronger than those bought of 

 friend Robertson, and that is saying considerable. 



At Messrs. Wellington and Hetherington's, I saw 



several labor-saving machines and contrivances for 

 nailing frames, putting together sections, putting in 

 fdn., and so on. These gentlemen are the ones who 

 use the frames that can be turned upside down. If 

 I remember rightly, they have about 175 colonies, all 

 of which, except two, arc located about 4 niiles out 

 in the country. 



After several hours of "railroading," unbroken 

 by any incident except that the engineer once 

 brought the train suddenly to a standstill just as 

 the engine was running upon a heavy logging chain 

 that somebody had carelessly left lying ac/oss the 

 track, and less than an hour of buggy-riding, 



our clearing 

 was reached, just as the shades of night were falling. 

 An inviting supper was soon ready. This dispatched, 

 we adjourned to the sitting-room, and talked bees. 

 Miss Cyula cornered me down pretty closely on my 

 sugar-feeding hobby; she wanted to know if this 

 feeding had not induced breeding, and that that 

 miyht have had its influence. As the feeding was all 

 done in 3 days, it was my opinion that such was not 

 the cas^ but I could not "get out of it" until 1 

 promised to feed extracted honey to some of my 

 colonies another fall. 



Early the next morning the work of selecting the 

 colonies, and preparing rfhem for shipment, was 

 begun. We had not much more than commenced 

 before it began to rain, and we were obliged to carry 

 the colonies into the old house to pack them. Yes, 

 since the new house on the hill nearer the road was 

 finished, that old, romantic, vine-covered log-house 

 has been used for a shop and storeroom; its pantry, 

 bedrooms, and cubby-holes reminding me very much 



