MAY 1, 1916 



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Application. — It is desirable to apply for this 

 course early, as it has been found necessary to limit 

 the school to fifteen students. Students will be ac- 

 cepted in the order of application as shown by date 

 of their letters. Application ehould be made by 

 letter to Prof. W. D. Hurd, Director Extension 

 Service, Massitchusetts Agricultural College, Am- 

 herst. 



Pee. — A fee of two dollars is charged to cover 

 all laboratory expenses. 



Equii'Munt. — Such equipment as is made by the 

 students in their course may be purchased at cost. 



COURSES. 



1. Practical Bkekeei'ing. — Lectures: laborato- 

 ry practice in the general work of the beekeeper; 

 beekeeping equipment, practices in the preparation 

 of materials, location of the apiary ; commencing 

 with bees, handling of bees, practice in beeyard pro- 

 cedure; spring manipulation; fall preparation, win- 

 tering; comb and extracted honey production; bee 

 diseases and their treatment ; apiary sanitation ; 

 making increase; elements of queen-rearing, etc. — 

 Burton N. Gates, Associate Professor of Beekeeping; 

 .fohn L. Byard, Superintendent of the Apiary; 

 Gladstone H. Cale, Laboratory and Apiary Assistant. 



2. Life of the Honeybee. — Lectures. — Henry 

 T. Fernald, Professor of Entomology. 



3. Special Problems of the Beekeeper. — Lec- 

 tures: Demonstrations in requeening, the races of 

 bees, the introduction of queens; swarming and 

 handling swarms ; comb-honey production ; enemies 

 of bees. — James B. Paige, Professor Veterinary 

 Science. 



4. Crops Foraged bv Bees. — Lectures: field 

 excursions. — William P. Brooks, Director of the 

 Experiment Station. 



5. The Relation of Bees to the Pollination 

 of Plants, including Coloration, Odor, Nectar 

 Secretion. — Lectures: Laboratory work in blossom 

 structure and dissection. — -A. Vincent Osmun, As- 

 sociate Professor of Botany. 



6. Bees in Horticultural Practices. — Lec- 

 tures: field work in the utilization of bees in fruit 

 production, market gardening, cranberry culture, 

 and greenhouse cucumber-growing; beekeeping as 

 affected by spraying practices. — Walter W. Cheno- 

 weth, Associate Professor of Pomology. 



General information. 



Amherst is desirably situated in the Connecticut 

 Valley. In May or June the scenery is at its height 

 in beauty, hence this season offers a pleasant oppor- 

 tunity for the course at the Agricultural College. 

 Besides the work in beekeeping, ample opportunities 

 will he afforded to visit the other parts of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural College as well as to visit 

 Amherst College. Excursions will be taken as op- 

 portunity and the work may demand. It is usually 

 customary to make a trip to some practical beeyard 

 and queen-rearing establishment. Students return- 

 ing from this course should be well equipped to 

 handle bees on their own account. 



SPECIAL NOnCES 



BV A. I. ROOT 

 " THE DEFEAT OF I.V.T USTICE." 



Here in my Medina home that little tract, " The 

 Defeat of Injustice, or how to be Happy when Peo- 

 ple Abuse You," has, in consequence of the rush of 

 business, been out of print for a time. Tliose of 

 you who ordered them and did not get them can 

 have them now if they will kindly repeat their 

 request. 



BACK IN MY OLD HOME ONCE MORE. 



Prom now on, the many kind friends will find me 

 here at my old Medina home (the Home of the 

 Honeybees) at their service, with one or more sten- 

 ographers to give you a helping hand whenever the 

 benefit of my years of experience is called for. Per- 

 haps I had better remind you, however, that of late 

 I have had so little to do with the bee business and 

 the factory that I am not as well posted as some of 

 the younger ones. My one-hive apiary in Florida 

 gave no surplus whatever in 1915, altho it has its 

 upper story well filled most of the time; but it made 

 no surplus in the third story. During the orange bloom 

 this spring they did quite well for a time, and made 

 a little start in the third story; but on account of 

 the most severe frost of the winter, along in March, 

 and a rather severe drouth following, the orange- 

 bloom gave no surplus in our neighborhood. 1 

 mention this because so many of the good friends in 

 the North seem to have gotten the idea that down in 

 Florida there is aliuays honey coming, year in and 

 year out. But the truth is that, while we occasion- 

 ally have good success, with abundant honey-flows, 

 Florida has its ups and downs, at least in some 

 localities, like almost all the rest of the universe. 



We left our Florida home — chickens, garden, and 

 all — on the morning of April 17, and in just about 

 48 hours from the time of starting we were once 

 more back in Ohio in time to see the apple-trees 

 bloom; but in place of the apple-bloom and the "May 

 flowers," we have been haying a series of April 

 showers for about a week. 



I have just read my letter (adv. page 21, March 

 15), and it places me in an embarrassing position. 

 In line 10 you make me say " my gi-andmolher." I 

 don't remember using that word. If I. did, it was 

 truly a slip of the pen. I certainly did not intend 

 to use the word, for " grandma " Lincoln Bowman 

 is my nephew's grandmother, my brother having 

 married her daughter. We all call her grandmother 

 — almost everybody — and in that sense I meant it. 

 I very much regret that my syntax was so faulty 

 that it gave a different meaning to my letter than I 

 had intended. 



But Anglo-Saxon is not my mother tongue, so 

 there you have it. J. C. Schaufele, M.D. 



Colchester, 111., March 19. 



A TRUE STORY OF HOMESTEAD LIFE 



How wife and I left our school work and 

 homesteaded 1280 acres of land under the 

 Kinkaid Act. How we bought Government 

 land for $2.50 per acre when land joining our 

 place sold for $9.50 per acre. This tells how 

 horses, cattle, and sheep are raised in this 

 vicinity : how to build sod-houses and sand- 

 bucket wells; how we raised 1000 bushels of 

 clover seed. Has eleven illustrations includ- 

 ing a township plot giving the number of 

 people, horses, and cattle on each claim ; also 

 number of acres of plowed land, etc. The 

 following is the last paragraph from an article 

 in the Breeders' Gazelle, page 337, of Septem- 

 ber 2, 1915: 



" In the last Congress the grazing homestead 

 bill passed the house by an almost unanimous 



vote, and that it will be taken up and passed 

 by the next Congress with little delay and few 

 oi- no changes, is the general opinion of every 

 man conversant with the situation. With the 

 passage of such a measure the western public 

 land states will undoubtedly see one of the 

 greatest scrambles for land since the memor- 

 able opening of Oklahoma. It will positively 

 be the ' last call,' the final offer of free homes, 

 the winding up of the nation's land business, a 

 remnant sale of what is left of our stock of 

 free land. It will be a bargain day for settlers 

 and a case of ' First come, first served.' 



.\ True Story of Homestead Life sent post- 

 paid for 30 cts. in stamps or personal check. 

 If any one is dissatisfied after reading it he 

 can return it, and we will refund his money. 



R. A. Klover, Ellsworth, Nebraska 



