6 Bee-Keeping for Women. 
stronger body and improved health, the result of pure aii. 
sunshine and exercise, will make each successive day’s labor 
more easy, and will permit a corresponding growth in the 
size of the apiary for each successive season. One of the 
most noted apiarists, not only in America but in the world, 
sought in bee-keeping her health, and found not only 
health, but reputation and influence. Some of the most 
successful apiarists in our country are women. Of these, 
many were led to adopt the pursuit because of waning 
health, grasping at this as the last and successful weapon 
with which to vanquish the grim monster. 
That able apiarist, and terse writer on apiculture, Mrs. 
L. Harrison, states that the physicians told her that she 
could not live; but apiculture did for her what the physi- 
cians could not do, restored her to health, and gave her 
such vigor that she has been able to work a large apiary 
for years. 
Said “ Cyula Linswik”—whose excellent and beauti- 
fully written articles have so oftea charmed the readers of 
the bee journals, and who has had many years of success- 
ful experience as an apiarist—in a paper read before our 
Michigan convention in March, 1887: “I would gladly 
purchase exemption from in-door work, on washing-day, by 
two days’ labor among the bees, and I sinc two hours’ labor 
at the ironing-table more fatiguing than two hours of the 
severest toil the apiary can exact.” I repeat, that apicult- 
ure offers to many women not only pleasure but profit. 
Mrs. L. B. Baker, of Lansing, Michigan, who has kept - 
bees very successfully for four years, read an admirable 
paper before the same Convention, in which she said: 
“ But I can say, having tried both, (keeping boarding 
house and apiculture,) I give bee-keeping the preference, 
as more profitable, healthful, independent and enjoyable. 
* # ® T find the labors of the apiary more endurable than 
working over a cook-stove in-doors, and more pleasant and 
conducive to health, * * * I believe that many of our 
delicate and invalid ladies would find renewed vigor of 
body and mind in the labors and recreations of the apiary. 
* * * By heginning in the early spring, when the weather 
was cool and the work light, I became gradually accus- 
