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persedure, at his earliest convenience, the 

 queens of every colony that shows signs 

 of failing-. 



During the building up period, previous 

 to the main honey flow, the bee-keeper 

 has an excellent opportunity to note the 

 conditions of his queens. Then, when he 

 takes off his early honey, he should be on 

 the look out constantly for run down col- 

 onies, if colonies which he would natur- 

 ally expect to be strong in bees are not, 

 they should be marked, for examination, 

 and when the harvest is over he will have 

 abundance of time to go through them. 



and make such changes as he finds nec- 

 essary. A similar examination may be 

 made later in the season when his fall 

 crop is taken. 



By this constant watchout for failing 

 q.ueens, and by adopting some system of 

 supplying the deficiency, either by pur- 

 chase or raising his own queens, it occurs 

 to me that the matter of requeening can 

 be attended to with greater economy, if 

 not more effectively, than by wholesale 

 supersedure at stated intervals. 



Hudson, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1907. 



Helpful Hints in Extensive 

 Bee-Keeping. 



E. D. TOWNSEND. 



In publishing a series of articlee, like these writ- 

 ten by Mr. Townsend, it is well-nigh impossible to 

 have each item published at a seasonable time. The 

 article that will appear in this issue and the next, 

 wheiein he tells exactly how he managed the Kal- 

 kaska yard, 105 miles from home, for both comb 

 and extracted honey, is really the best thing that he 

 has written, and 1 wish it might have been given 

 last March and April. Will readers please try and 

 store it up in their minds for the next year.— Editor. 



WORKING THE KALKASKA COUNTY YARD 105 

 MILES FROM HOME. 



After taking our bees from the clamps 

 here at Remus, (this was done the last 

 W3ek oF March) and papering them, as I 

 have previously described, 1 started, 

 about April first, for the Kalkaska Co., 

 yard, 1 05 miles north, by rail. This yard 

 is located on a branch of the Pere Mar- 

 quette railroad, four miles north west of 

 Kalkaska. This is a very hilly, broken 

 country, a location where it will be a 

 good many years before it will be cleared 

 up and used for farming purposes, if ever. 

 This tract of country was once a beauti- 

 ful forest of maple, beech and elm, but 

 the woodman's ax has slaughtered it, or 

 about three-fourths of it. While it is 

 heart-rending to see these noble forests 

 disappearing, they are nothing, from a bee- 



keeper's view-point, only as the maple 

 and elm produce pollen and honey to 

 stimulate early spring breeding. 



The main thing that interests bee- 

 keepers is the wild red-raspberry that 

 comes up on these cuttings. Two or three 

 years after this cutting, the berries come 

 to maturity and are ready for the busy 

 bee. This wild red-raspberry is a very 

 sure yielder of a beautiful white honey, 

 that takes an expert to distinguish from 

 clover. 



RASPBERRY HONEY IS WHITE IN NORTHERN 

 MICHIGAN. 



I copy from the American Bee Journal, 

 under date of Oct. 25th, 1906. Mr. Mor- 

 ley Pettit says in Canadian Beedom: "J. 

 L. Byer reports, in the Canadian Bee 

 Journal, extracting 1700 pounds of rasp- 

 berry honey from one of his yards, and 

 says that although amber in color the 

 flavor is beautiful. This reminds me of a 

 little joke we had at the Michigan State 

 Convention last winter, when E. D. Town- 

 send was showing a sample of extracted 

 honey to some of the members. All who 



