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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



sables of the house, barn, honey house and 

 shop. The bees are wintered in the cellars 

 under the residence and honey house. 



From eight o'clock in the morning until 

 half past one iu the afternoon (when I left 

 for home) there was scarcely a moment 

 when there was not a swarm in the air, and 

 sometimes two or three. There were queen 

 traps on almost all the hives. As two or 

 more swarms would unite and then go piling 

 into one hive, i)erhap8 one from which a 

 swarm had not issued, Mr. Taylor would re- 

 mark, with a smile, " I wonder what Mr. So 

 and So (mentioning some man who had said 

 that bees always go back to their own hive 

 when the queen is not with them ) would say 

 if he were here now." 



It did me good to see the enthusiasm, 

 thoroughness and exteusiveness with which 



experiments were being conducted. Swarms 

 and hives and cases were weighed, etc., etc. 

 The note book was kept right iu tlie yard 

 and everything jotted down on the spot; 

 there was no waiting uutil the day was over 

 and then depending upon the memory. 



I found a large solar wax extractor in op- 

 eration. Mr. Taylor told me he should 

 render some combs infected with foul brood 

 and then make the wax into foundation 

 without heating it any hotter than it was 

 heated by the sun, and then use the founda- 

 tion and see if foul brood would result from 

 its use. But I must not forestall Mr. Taylor, 

 as he has promised to tell us all that he 

 does : and I will close by saying that, as an 

 experimental apiary it comes up to my ideal 

 — it is the realization of a dream that I once 

 feared might never come true. 



MICHIGAN, EXPEBIMENTAL APIAliY. LOCATED AT LAPEEE. 



W"ork: at IVEicliigaii's 



Experimental 



Apiary. 



E. L,. TAYLOB, APIAEIST. 



«%|»N this first article concerning the work 

 (S) at the Michigan Apicultural Experiment 

 «A» Station, I must confine myself briefly 

 to a statement of some of the items of work 

 already undertaken, and to indicating some 



of the benefits which it is hoi)cd may be de- 

 rived from them, only briefly alluding to re- 

 sults so far as they yet appear, without enter- 

 ing into details. 



It must be remembered that I have been 

 plunged into the midst of the work of the 

 Station at the most important as well as the 

 busiest season of the year, by an appoint- 

 ment as director only a short time before 

 the opening of the honey season — an ap- 

 pointment which I had previously not the 

 remotest thought of receiving — and so no 



