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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



It may be necessary, and it is generally 

 best, for me to hold my crop for awhile, and 

 shall I store it in the room where my hives 

 are, where it can get dusty, soiled, and more 

 or less injured ? No, sir. I will have a room 

 on purpose to put it in — a room where I can 

 keep it dry and warm — and into this room 

 it goes from the hives, and there it stays 

 until sold. 



In this room is done all the extracting, 

 cleaning sections, and preparing it for mar- 

 ket, and nowhere else. Then the sticky is 

 all in one place, and will stay there if I am 

 careful. 



The workshop and store-room for hives 

 and fixtures may be all in one, but I prefer 

 to store my hives out of the way, so that I 

 can have full swing in my workshop for any 

 work, whether it is a bee-hive, a wagon, or 

 a house. 



My shop is roomy, light, dry, and can be 

 warmed when necessary. My bench is in 

 the best light in the shop and my tools are 

 in a convenient place. I have a place for 

 everything, and everything is in its place — 

 occasionally. Sometimes I forget where the 

 place is. 



For storing combs I shall build a closet 

 where I can treat them to a dose of bi- 

 sulphide of carbon when necessary. The 

 closet will be of such size as to hold the 

 frames to best advantage, and is to be ven- 

 tilated from out of doors, so that none of 

 the dangerous gas can enter the house or 

 room where any one could breathe it or 

 where it might be ignited. The closet doors 

 must necessarily shut tight. 



So far as possible I have everything on one 

 floor. No running up and down stairs for 

 me, thank you. Laud is too cheap in the 

 country to pay to put things up into the air 

 where I must climb for them. 



A cellar I do not need, as my bees winter 

 well on the summer stands. 



Pkovidenoe, R. I. Jan. 4, 1891. 



Experiments at the Mich. Agricultural Col- 

 lege — What they are to be, and who is 

 to Conduct Them. 



A. J. OOOK. 



IT S PER request, Mr. Editor, I gladly 

 ai) give the facts regarding our plans 

 concerning experiments in apicul- 

 ture here at the College. Not long since, Dr. 

 C. V. Riley visited our college and wished to 



know if I would give attention and care to 

 experiments in bee-keeping, in case the De- 

 partment would furnish a good assistant to 

 care for and manage details. I said I would 

 do all I could to make such experiments suc- 

 cessful. In discussing the matter. Dr. Riley 

 and I thought best to press the work of 

 special planting for honey, that it might 

 soon be decided whether it would ever pay 

 or not. It was also thought wise to take every 

 care and pains to breed up a superior variety 

 or strain. It is also proposed to try experi- 

 ments to find all the factors that enter into 

 the matter of ill success in wintering. Other 

 experiments will be conducted, but the above 

 will receive the emphasis of our care and 

 effort. 



In making inquiries, I was led to decide 

 upon Mr. J. H. Larrabee, Secretary of the 

 Vermont State Association, to assist in this 

 work. Mr, Larrabee is very intelligent ; a 

 hard worker ; neat and methodical in his 

 work ; has proven his ability by that best of 

 tests, real success ; and is of that judicial 

 turn of mind that can carry on an experi- 

 ment and give results — the real facts — with- 

 out prejudice or bias. At least, I was led to 

 that belief after many inquiries ; and now 

 that Mr. Larrabee is with me, and I have 

 become acquainted with him, I am more 

 assured that I made no mistake in deciding 

 upon him to assist in this important work. 



Let me add that we shall be very glad at 

 any time to receive suggestions from bee- 

 keepers, either as to ways to conduct these 

 exijeriments, or regarding other experi- 

 ments that it may be thought wise to prose- 

 cute. 



Agbioultueal Col., Mich. Jan. 19, 1891. 



[Let's all give Bro. Larrabee a hearty 

 welcome and encourage him all we can in 

 his important work. I shall look with in- 

 terest to the results of these experiments, 

 particularly those that have a bearing upon 

 the wintering question. 



In a private letter, Mr. Larrabee suggests 

 that one issue of the Review be devoted to 

 the discussion of " Progress." He says : 

 "Many issues have been devoted to what 

 has been done and how to do this or that, 

 now have one devoted to ' Experiments I 

 should like to try.' Let your writers look 

 into the future of bee culture, especially upon 

 inventions, discoveries and methods." 

 What do the readers of the Review think of 

 such a topic ? I think that now that we 

 have succeeded in catching a real live bee- 



