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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Fig. 8. — Loading into the car. Regular cover re- 

 moved, a super-cover being left over the screen tem- 

 porarily. 



lustration shows the difficulties under which 

 we worked at that time. Well, now, we did 

 not expect floods or any thing else when 

 we started south this winter. We certainly 

 did not expect a blizzard of snow — some- 

 thing that never before had been seen at 

 this time of the year. But it came just the 

 same. Luck has been against us at the 

 starts; but we do not mind it if it is only 

 with us at the finish. 



BEES AND COLLEGE FINANCES 



How a Young Lady Paid a Considerable Part of 



Her Expenses while at School with Money 



She Earned with Bees 



BY FLORA M'iNTYRE 



[For several years back an impression has gone out 

 that a certain young lady in California put herself 

 through college with the money she earned from her 

 bees. Learning that it was Miss Flora Mclntyre, of 

 Ventura, Cal., we inquired if it would be possible 

 for us to secure the particulars. We began by coax- 

 ing the mother to get her daughter to tell the story. 

 We later got in touch with the young lady herself. 

 The mother, Mrs. Harriet Wilkin Mclntyre, is a 

 daughter of the late R. Wilkin, one of the early hon- 

 ey-producers of California. Mr. Wilkin, with two or 

 three other pioneers in the early days, about the time 

 gold was discovered, showed to the beekeeping world 

 that California had something besides gold within its 

 borders, and that was — honey of a superior quality 

 and quantity. 



We were interested in securing this story, for tv.'o 

 reasons. First, because there are many young men 

 and women who are anxious to secure an education ; 

 and if they could use bees to contribute to their 

 support while in college they would gladly avail 

 themselves of the opportunity during vacation time. 

 Second, we desired to get this story on account of 

 the parentage of the 'oung woman. Her father, J. 

 F. Mclntyre, was for many years proprietor of tl;e 

 famous Sespe apiary, where 500 colonies were kept 

 in one yard year after year. This apiary is one of 

 the most beautifully located, so far as mountain 

 scenery is concerned, of any in the United States. 



Mr. Mclntyre was the first user of a power-driven 

 reversible extractor in the United States if not in 

 the world. It was one of his own devising; but in- 

 stead of using a gasoline-motor he derived his motive 

 force from a water motor fed by a stream on the 

 mountain sides. This extractor was an autStuatic 

 reversible, somewhat different from the style now 

 made, but nevertheless one that did its work satis- 

 factorily. Notwithstanding that this was a success, 

 it has taken some years for the rest of the beekeep- 

 ing world to catch on; and now power-driven ex- 

 ti acting outfits are coming to be quite the fashion. 



Mrs. Mclntyre, a daughter of R. Wilkin, as al- 



The flood hindered ns in the second shipment. 



