THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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APIARY OF G. W. WILSON, KICKAPOO VALLEY, WISCONSIN. 



THROUGH WISCONSIN WITH PENCIL AND 

 CAMERA. 



As most of my readers know, I spent 

 nearly three weeks last July, with pencil 

 and camera, among the bee-keepers and 

 manufacturers of Wisconsin. Some parts 

 of this State are still peculiarly well-ad- 

 apted to the keeping of bees. Like some 

 parts of Michigan, they still bring to 

 mind the old (rerman couplet that saj's : 



liells' fling dong. 

 And choral .song, 

 Deter the bee 

 From industry: 

 Hut hoot of owl, 

 .\nd "wolf'.s long howl," 

 Incite to moil 

 , .And steady toil. 



Many parts of the country in the vicin- 

 ity of Oreenwood are ideal locations from 

 the bee-keeper's standpoint. There are 

 old ])ineries in which the raspberry, the 

 willow herb, the aster and the golden rod 

 delight to revel. Then there are strips of 

 hard wood where basswood abounds. In 



the clearings the white clover is spring- 

 ing up. The country here is new. In 

 some directions the forests stretch away 

 unbroken for miles. Wild game is plen- 

 tiful. IvOg houses have not jet been for- 

 saken; and the mellow tinkle of a cow 

 bell i often heard in some distant wood. 

 Perhaps it is because my boyhood's days 

 — those days so free from care — were pass- 

 ed in jtxst such surroundings, that a visit 

 to such scenes is so enjoyable. The sight 

 of an apiary, snugged away in some 

 woodland nook, arouses in me a strange 

 longing to go and do likewise. 



One feature of some parts of Wisconsin 

 that adds greatly to the honey-production 

 of the regions in which it abounds, is the 

 bhiffs covered with basswoods, along the 

 banks of some of the streams. The Kick- 

 apoo valley is an instance of this. The 

 basswoods on the bluffs are not all nice, 

 tall, straight trees such as grow on bot- 



