. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 16, 1905. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 201 Norinern Micmoan a Bee-KeeDers' Paradise. " Bells' ding doog, and choral song, Deter the bee from industry; But hoot of owl, and ' wolf's long howl', Incite to moil and steady ; Northern Michigan, the home of the huckleberry and the speckled trout, where the wild deer drinks deep from little sparkling^ lakes with white peb- bly beaches, where forests of magnifi- cent beech and maple stretch away for miles unbroken, where still lingers some of Nature's wildness, here is proven the truthfulnes
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 16, 1905. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 201 Norinern Micmoan a Bee-KeeDers' Paradise. " Bells' ding doog, and choral song, Deter the bee from industry; But hoot of owl, and ' wolf's long howl', Incite to moil and steady ; Northern Michigan, the home of the huckleberry and the speckled trout, where the wild deer drinks deep from little sparkling^ lakes with white peb- bly beaches, where forests of magnifi- cent beech and maple stretch away for miles unbroken, where still lingers some of Nature's wildness, here is proven the truthfulness of our opening adage—here is a veritable paradise for the bee-keeper. From Canada to Cali- fornia have we sought for the Eldorado, only to find, as is often the case, that it lies at our very door. Four years ago I attended, at Trav- erse City, a meeting of the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Association, and two things struck me quite forcibly : The uniformly good yields reported, and the wonderful interest shown in discussing the problem of how to have populous colonies early in the season, that the best advantage might be taken of the red raspberry bloom. THE WONDERFUL AND UNIFORM YIELDS OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN. The next year I attended another meeting of bee-keepers held in that part of the State, only further north, at Bel- laire, Antrim County, and again I was surprised at the uniformly good yields reported, and upon inquiry as to the source, the reply was almost invariably " raspberries ". Occasionally some one would add milkweed, or basswood, or willow-herb. I believe I quizzed the members of that convention more per- sistently than I ever did those of any other convention. If a man that I had cornered got away, I immediately cor- ralled another. The man who occupied the room with me at the hotel, where we stopped, was snoring when I asked my last question. Then I went home with Mr. S. D. Chapman, and stayed a day or two, looked over the ground from which his hon
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