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May 



to take a medical examination to show 

 physical fitness as well as suitable men- 

 tal preparation. The course is said to 

 be too strenuous for delicate women. 

 As will be seen from the picture of the 

 class in beekeeping, the students are 

 given practical work in the subjects 

 which they are taught. Two hours of 

 practical work to one of books is the 

 rule throughout the course. 



The work includes floriculture and 

 greenhouse management, landscape 

 gardening, fruit growing, vegetable 

 gardening, poultry keeping, beekeeping, 

 canning and preserving. In many re- 

 spects the work resembles that offered 

 in the Agricultural Colleges, excepting 

 that here the students have practical 

 experience in the apiary, greenhouse 

 or garden through the entire year. The 

 jam kitchen is an interesting place 

 where the products of the school farm 

 are prepared for market. Fruits are 

 made into jellies and preserves, and the 

 honey is bottled for a special trade. 

 While there are similar institutions in 

 Europe, there is no other school in 

 America offering this particular train- 

 ing for women. 



Miss Elizabeth Leighton Lee, direc- 

 tor of the school, says: "The object 

 of the School of Horticulture is to 

 give to educated women scientific in- 

 struction, combined with all necessary 

 conditions for much actual practice; 

 the course being planned to equip 

 women with the theoretical and practi- 

 cal knowledge that will enable them to 

 manage private and commercial gar- 

 dens or orchards. Thorough training 

 throughout the various seasons of the 

 year eliminates the discouragements of 

 costly inexperience, and fits a woman 

 for a vocation that is healthful, attrac- 

 tive and remunerative." f. c. p. 



One who has any proper conception 

 of the subject cannot help being thrilled 

 to think what it will mean to the coun- 

 try when schools of this kind become 

 common— as they surely will. A woman 

 who has been through a two-year course 

 at Ambler need have little to fear in 

 meeting life's struggle if she should be 

 thrown upon her own resources. 



Yet important as it is that those 

 women who live lives of single blessed- 

 ness shall be prepared to steer their 

 lone barks, it is of vastly more conse- 

 quence that married women shall do 

 their part well, if for no other reason 

 than because there are so many more 

 of them. It is a great thing to be a 

 home-maker. Lillian Russell, the noted 

 opera-singer and actress, lately wrote 

 in the Chicago Daily Herald : 



" Women who are making good 

 homes need not feel that their work is 

 insignificant; they are engaged in the 

 greatest work life offers. Their sisters 

 may paint beautiful pictures, write won- 

 derful stories or rise to exalted posi- 

 tions in business or the professions; 

 but the home builder is, after all, the 

 greatest producer of beauty and happi- 

 ness. All else in life is in a large meas- 

 ure dependent upon her. Government 

 may fall and religion may totter if she 

 fails in her duties. 



" Women who create beautiful homes 

 can find time for other things; their 

 lives need not be narrow. Many chan- 

 nels to success in other directions are 

 open to them. They have a better 

 chance to reach exalted positions in 

 their communities and nations than the 



women who have never felt the won- 

 derful exhilaration and inspiration of 

 the home builder. 



" Man may erect a building, but it 

 takes a woman to make it a home. It 

 is a woman that puts the wonderful 

 sweetness in the word home. She is 

 the creator of the beauty and happiness 



that convert a dwelling place into a 

 home." 



So let us rejoice that Ambler women 

 are being prepared to make better 

 homes, and that the vision is broad 

 enough to include beekeeping as one 

 of the things the home-maker may well 

 know something about. 



Miscellaneous W) News Items 



Suggestions for the Control ot Foul- 

 brood.-— The following gleaned from the 

 instruction given by B. F. Kindig, State 

 Inspector of Michigan, is worthy of 

 attention : 



V.ery few colonies of bees actually die 

 from foulbrood during the summer. 

 The disease causes the colonies to be- 

 come very weak, and they, therefore, 

 store up very little food for winter. If 

 they do not starve to death sooner, or 

 are not killed by robbers, the first real 

 cold weather usually kills them. These 

 conditions cause many beekeepers to 

 look upon the death of their bees as 

 purely due to winter killing. In a large 

 measure winter killing is due to disease. 



From now on until late spring, every 

 beekeeper should look upon the death 

 of any colony with suspicion, watch the 

 hives on warm days, and if the bees are 

 flying from some hives and not from 

 others, take the hive from which the 

 bees are flying, inside of a building and 

 there make an examination of the in- 

 terior. If the colony is found to be 

 dead or nearly so, do not again place 

 the hive where it can be robbed, but 

 suffocate the bees and close the^hive 

 securely. Any colony that is being 

 robbed may be a source of disease. 

 which disease may be carried to all the 

 healthy colonies in the vicinity. 



Any beekeeper who is not familiar 

 with the appearance of combs in which 

 disease is present should send a piece 



of the comb under suspicion. A box 

 for mailing will be furnished, if desired. 

 No charges are made for the examina- 

 tion of the comb. If disease is found 

 to be present, specific directions for 

 disposing of the combs, and for treat- 

 ing the disease in living colonies, will 

 be sent to the person sending in the 

 combs for examination. 



If beekeepers will heed the above 

 suggestions, it will "prevent in large 

 measure the further spread of foul- 

 brood. E. F. Phillips, 

 Bureau of Entomoloey. Washington. D. C. 



Ohio Beekeepers Neet At the meet- 

 ing of the Ohio Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion the following officers were elected : 

 President, Melville Hayes, Wilmington : 

 Vice-president, Fred Leininger, Del- 

 phos ; Secretary-Treasury,ErnestKohn, 

 Grover Hill. 



A field meet will be held at Wilming- 

 ton the latter part of August. 



Western Washington Meeting. — Suc- 

 cess attended the annual convention 

 of the Western Washington Beekeep- 

 ers' Association held in Chehalis Feb. 

 'J. Southwest Washington was well 

 represented. 



N. P. Welson, of Centralia, was elect- 

 ed President, and W. L. Cox, of Elma, 

 was reelected Secretary-Treasurer. 



THE STUDENTS ARE GIVEN PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOL 



OF HORTICULTURE 



