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that is difficult to manage. Never let up on them. They will never 

 let up on you. — E. G. B. 



A Field Meeting at One of Our Beeyards 



On June 3rd, one of a series of field meetings Inspector Millen 

 is conducting was held at our Stanton beeyard. As it was one of 

 those regular cold rainy days we are so used to having of late, only 

 about a dozen beekeepers were in attendance. As far as demon- 

 stration work was concerned, it would be considered a failure, as 

 no frames could be removed from the hives, only covers being re- 

 moved to see the strain of bees or how large the cluster, etc. Even 

 with the adverse weather so no bees could be handled, we think 

 all who braved the weather felt well paid for their time and expense, 

 for there was something to talk about all the time, as we were 

 beekeepers. 



Mr. Leonard S. Griggs of Flint is one of Michigan's best bee- 

 keepers. With just an ordinary location, he is securing very good 

 crops of extacted honey, year after year, which is the only true test 

 for a successful beekeeper. It will be remembered that Mr. Grigg's 

 came into possession of the late W. Z. Hutchinson's bees, also bee- 

 cellar. In making some changes and extending his business it be- 

 came necessary for him to build two new bee-cellars last fall. He 

 was a little undecided about how to build them, how to install the 

 ventilators and intakes, etc., and he put his plan before the state 

 convention at Lansing for consideration with the result that he 

 installed an intake and ventilators that ought to be right up-to-date 

 — the intake entering the cellar at a low corner and when well in the 

 cellar, an elbow and intake pipe carried the fresh air to the ceiling 

 before liberating, then the ventilator proper extended to near the 

 cellar bottom so it ought to have carried off the poisonous gases 

 from the cellar bottom. He reported at the field meeting that his 

 ventilator system was a failure, that he lost heavily at both cellars 

 where all this precaution was taken, and the ventilator and intake 

 will be taken out before another fall. 



The Hutchinson Cellar 



After finding his bees apparently wintering so poorly in the 

 two new cellars, he thought he would take a look into the Hutch- 

 inson cellar, to see how things were progressing there. Upon open- 

 ing the cellar door, not a sound was to be heard, and after the ex- 

 perience in the other two cellars, the thought occurred to him that 

 they were all dead, so quiet was every thing. Were they? No! 



