DECEMBER 15, 1913 



Harriet Wilkin Mclntyre with her five daughters, her son, and two sonsin-law. Flora Mclntyre indicated 



by cross. 



ready mentioned, would naturally marry a beekeep- 

 er ; and so it is nothing strange that one of the 

 girls. Flora, should have been a " victim of the bee 

 fever from infancy," as she says. 



We are very glad to present this story, not alone 

 because of its intrinsic value, but because of the in- 

 teresting photos that accompany it. The young 

 lady very frankly tells her experiences ; and the fact 

 that these experiences cost her something should be 

 a warning to others not to overdo while at school. 

 As we know from past experience in our old college 

 days, the usual college curriculum will give any stu- 

 dent all he can possibly do without other work. 



We will now let Miss Mclntyre tell her own story. 

 It is worth reading. — Ed. 



The bees have sometimes been given the 

 credit of paying my way through college. 

 That is an exaggeration; they merely help- 

 ed make it possible for me to spend three 

 years at the University of California. The 

 following is an account of what they really 

 did in behalf of education — as nearly accu- 

 rate as I can give it from memory. 



The opportunity came after a severe ill- 

 ness had cut in half my third year at high 

 school. With the arrival of the second 

 spring I was strong enough to work with 

 the bees, and was given the privilege of 



conducting the queen-rearing for my own 

 profit, provided I would supply at half 

 price the queens needed for requeening in 

 the home apiary. 



I have been a victim of " bee-fever " from 

 infancy, so the enterprise was a pleasure in 

 itself. I had also helped with the bees ever 

 since I could remember, which experience 

 made it practical. Moreover, I was firmly 

 determined to go to college some day, but 

 was much in need of the wherewithal. This 

 gave an added reason for my accepting with 

 alacrity the work with the bees. 



If I remember correctly I used some twen- 

 ty-five eight-frame hives divided in two by 

 a partition running lengthwise, making fifty 

 nuclei in all. I began work with the swarm- 

 ing season, raising my queens in dipped 

 cells. These were supplied with larvee from 

 selected colonies in the apiary, and placed 

 in hives preparing to swarm. The nuclei I 

 filled with bees by dividing regular colonies 

 when they swarmed, giving two combs of 

 brood with the adhering bees to each nu- 

 cleus, substituting a queen-cell of my own 

 rearing for those I cut away. 



