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ing very quickly without so much as opening a hive. The bees can easily 

 be driven up among the combs by the means of smoke, when by using 

 a hand mirror, if necessary, a view can be obtained that extends up quite 

 a distance between the combs. If the light is insufficient, some one can 

 stand out of doors with another mirror and throw a flood of sunshine 

 under the hive that is being examined. 



Lake of the Woods, in the Raspberry Region of Northern Michigan. 



Perhaps few can understand the longing there is in the heart of the author of this 

 boolt to build himself a real log cabin, with stone fireplace and chimney, on the shore 

 of some one of the beautiful little inland lakes of Northern Michigan, establish an 

 apiary hard by, right in the woods, and pass at least a portion of each summer in that 

 sylvan retreat. What a place to take bee-keeping friends in the autumn, when the 

 evenings could be spent around a fire, of blazing pine knots in the fireplace I 



