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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



The blouse and 



I filled all the orders 

 that came that year, 

 without any advertising, 

 the proceeds of which 

 amounted to a little over 

 one hundred dollars, and 

 from the requeening at 

 home I made fifty dol- 

 lars. By doing the un- 

 capping during the ex- 

 tracting season I added 

 about forty dollars 

 more. In all I dedicated 

 that season some two 

 hundred dollars to my 

 college course ; and 

 when, that August, I 

 had the privilege of at- 

 tending a National bee- 

 keepers' convention in 

 Los Angeles, and seeing 

 there many of the nota- 

 bles I had read so much 

 of in the bee journals I 

 felt that I was almost a 

 full-fledged beekeeper. 



I wore in the apiary 

 that season a costume 

 I had used at school 

 when playing basket-ball 

 short skirt were of blue demin, and the 

 bloomers of a lighter-weight material. I 

 added leggins, and, of course, long-sleeved 

 gloves and veil. This costume was very 

 satisfactory; but I doubt whether it would 

 ever be worth while to make a special outfit, 

 since there are always dresses on hand that 

 need wearing out, which will answer the 

 purjDose very well. 



To get back to the queen-rearing: The 

 next two summer vacations were too short 

 to allow me to undertake the work. But 

 during the third year, on April 18, came the 

 San Trancisco fire. This brought my fresh- 

 man year at college to a sudden end; and, 

 although I stayed over at Berkeley a week 

 by permission from the authorities to cross 

 to the city and see the ruins I was home bv 

 May 1, and soon began work. I think I 

 used about 75 nuclei that year, and I sent 

 out advertising cards among California bee- 

 keepers. Owing, however, to the late start. 

 and the absence of an order for requeening 

 at home, I added only one hundred dollars 

 to my fund. The vacation following I add- 

 ed seventeen dollars more by uncapping. 

 Therefore three hundred and twenty-five 

 dollars was about the amount of help the 

 bees gave. 



To those who may think of doing like- 

 wise, it may be of interest to know that 

 that amount paid my incidental expenses 



The Mclntyre childi-en, Flora Melntyre second in the row. 



(books, stationery, dues to student organi- 

 zations, etc.), including about one hundred 

 dollars for traveling expenses between 

 Berkeley and Ventura during the three 

 years I was at college. It could have been 

 done with less, as I included a good many 

 tickets to concerts and good plays. I made 

 it a point to see as many as possible of the 

 gTeat artists who appeared in San Fran- 

 cisco, Oakland, and the Greek theater on the 

 campus at Berkeley, because I considered 

 these a part of my education, and I was not 

 sure that I would ever have such an oppor- 

 tunity to see them again. 



My board and room I secured through 

 assisting with the housework in a Berkeley 

 family. My clothes I made at home, and 

 my mother gave me about two hundred dol- 

 lars, which, I have calculated, just about 

 covered the expense due to illness and the 

 seventy-five dollars I had left at the end of 

 my third year. 



I would not, however, advise any one to 

 follow my example so far as to undertake 

 extra work during the college year. That 

 plan gives practically no time for recreation 

 during fifteen hours or more of the twenty- 

 four, and that means almost no time for 

 " student activities." It is taking chances 

 with one's health, besides. If I had it to do 

 over again I would borrow the money to 

 pay for my board and room, for I think 



