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nip or sweet clover upon waste places, 

 but I have vet to see the cultivation on 

 good soil, of any plant, for honey alone, 

 made profitable. 



Dr Gandy has certainly made money 

 out of bees. He has 20,000 ocres of land, 

 his farms being scattered about in a doz- 

 en or more counties, and he has bees on 

 every farm where he can secure a tenant 

 that will take care of the bees. He says 

 that at present he does not really know 

 how many colonies he owns. His bees are 

 not managed in such a manner as we East- 

 ern bee keepers would call up-to-date. 

 It is "chunk" honey that he produces. 



farms profitable, if he can secure one-half 

 the proceeds, delivered in the market. 

 Suppose he pays ;f 10,000 for a 200-acre 

 farm. He would then rent this farm, and 

 thereafter recieve one-half of the gross 

 proceeds, and never lift his finger, even 

 so much as to market his portion. It 

 was intimated to us that the Dr. wrote 

 that article in Gleanings for the sake of 

 "roping in" Eastern "suckers" and sell- 

 ing them farms. He denies this most em- 

 phatically, saying he has no land for sale 

 — it's too profitable for him to sell. Nei- 

 ther has he catnip nor sweet clover seed 

 for sale. He would rather buy than sell. 



LO.\D OK CATNIP FROM WHICH THE SEED IS TO BV. THRESHED. 



Perhans, uiuler the conditions, that of 

 having the work done by men ignorant 

 of the laws of l)ee keeping, it may be that 

 he is taking the wisest course. That the 

 doctor is a wealthy man there is no doubt. 

 The rent from his farms bring him in 

 J4o,oou a year, and each year the surplus 

 is re-invested in more land. These farms 

 when not rented for a cash rent, are rent- 

 ed for one-half the crops, delivered at 

 the market. Here in the East it is the 

 rule for the land to draw one-third of the 

 crops, where land is worked on shares, 

 and each man markets his own share of 

 crops. No wonder the doctor finds his 



In conclusion I would say that Dr. 

 Gandy is wealthj-. He pretty nearly 

 "owns the town" where he lives. He 

 has a lot of land and a lot of bees. He 

 has made money from both. A great 

 deal more from the land than he has from 

 the bees, allowing me to judge. He has 

 done a little in the way of artificial pastur- 

 age, but not enough to prove a great deal 

 definitely. He will probably do more in 

 this line. He may have had an enor- 

 mous yield at his home apiary, but such 

 yields are decidedly exceptional in that 

 locality. 



Flint, Mich., Sept. 25, 1901, 



