This occupation will make them contented, then on the seventh day cut out every one of their queen cells and give them a cell from your breeder colony.  Your queen breeding colony on the seventh day after swarming will have ripe queen cells ready to hatch, with one queen probably out.  If by listening in the evening you hear her “sing” and “peep” go next morning and remove all queen cells and give one to each of your newly formed colonies.  They will be readily accepted, will hatch immediately, sometimes whilst you are removing them, but certainly the same or next day and begin laying in due time.  From such colonies you may not expect any surplus honey, but they will build up rapidly and will be strong colonies to put away next fall.

[Illustration:  ADMINISTRATION BUILDING (MAIN BUILDING), UNIVERSITY FARM, ST. ANTHONY PARK, MINN.]

While it is not the intention to publish anything in this magazine that is misleading or unreliable, yet it must be remembered that the articles published herein recite the experience and opinions of their writers, and this fact must always be noted in estimating their practical value.

THE MINNESOTA HORTICULTURIST

Vol. 44 AUGUST, 1916 No. 8

How May University Farm and the Minnesota State Horticultural Society be Mutually Helpful in Developing the Farms and Homes of the Northwest?

A. F. WOODS, DEAN AND DIRECTOR, DEPT.  OF AGRI., UNIVERSITY OF MINN., ST. PAUL.

The farm without its windbreaks, shade trees, fruits, flowers and garden, if it can be called a home at all is certainly one that needs developing and improving.  There are many abiding places in the Northwest, as in every other part of the United States, that lack some essential part of them.  The first and most important step with a view to correcting these conditions is to bring together those interested in home improvement to talk over problems and difficulties and to plan how to correct them and to interest others in the movement.  This is what this great society with its auxiliary societies has been and is now doing most successfully.  It is true that your work has been more particularly from the horticultural view point, but, as I said in the beginning, fruits and flowers are civilizing and home making influences.

There should be more horticulturally interested people from the farms affiliated with this society.  Each farmers’ club should have a horticultural committee.  There are now about nine hundred farmers’ clubs in the state, and the number is increasing constantly.  These clubs represent the communities in which the members live.  They include men, women and children, farmers, preachers, teachers, every member of the community willing to cooperate.  They start things in the community interest and follow them up.  The Agricultural Extension Service of the University is in close touch with these clubs.  The horticulturists