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supplies, has installed several colonies on the roof of his 

 warehouse. This great building looms up in the very center 

 of traffic, where one expects to find business humming, to 

 be sure, but not bees. How they can possibly make a decent 

 living is certainly a puzzle. 



With these and similar instances in mind we may easily 

 believe Mr. Benson 1 when he says, " It may be safely said 

 that any place where farming, gardening, or fruit raising can 

 be successfully followed is adapted to the profitable keeping 

 of bees." It would be hard to believe that any one, old or 

 young, could watch the daily lives of these mysterious ani- 

 mals without being set a-thinking ; and those children who 

 come to understand the social life going on within a hive, 

 especially if they have tested the value of organization in 

 any of their own occupations, can hardly fail to catch what 

 is well called the " spirit of the hive." 



To some persons the keeping of poultry recommends itself 

 as an accessory of school gardening, although the line would 

 be carefully drawn so that the two interests should not clash, 

 for " Chickens in the garden! "would hardly be a welcome 

 cry. Experiments in poultry keeping have perhaps been 

 nowhere more successfully made than at Hyannis, Massa- 

 chusetts. Mr. Baldwin says: 



Certain very important characteristics which were not suspected from 

 the regular school work were clearly manifest in the poultry house. In 

 fact, enough has already come to me along this line to prove that here 

 is a new and reliable means of applying practical tests and of helping 

 students to see and correct inherent weaknesses. 2 



Quite a different sort of side show, which may be undertaken 

 by a young gardener sometime during his career, will be the 



1 Professor O. H. Benson, United States Department of Agriculture. 



2 W. A. Baldwin, Poultry-Raising as a School Occupation. 



