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master. Every summer the Lecturer in Bee-keeping conducts 
a number of public demonstrations at various centres 
throughout the College area, and bee-keepers are always 
welcome to visit the College Apiaries maintained at 
Craibstone and in Aberdeen City. Beginners, who may be 
unable to avail themselves of such opportunities, should 
apply to a competent bee-keeper for a lesson or two. In 
the selection of such a demonstrator the novice should not 
too hastily assume that one who has kept bees for some time 
must necessarily know how to manage them. Many who 
have “kept” bees for years are quite unable to handle them, 
and may be almost entirely ignorant of what is contained 
in the brood chambers of their own hives. On the other 
hand, we have in the north of Scotland a large number of 
bee-keepers who have little to learn in the art of handling 
bees, and any one of these would be delighted to vive a 
private demonstration to a beginner. Once the initial difh- 
culties have been got over, the budding expert will make very 
rapid progress if he is willing to assist others not so far 
advanced. He will thus profit by the mistakes of others as 
well as by his own, and will crowd into one season the 
experience that might otherwise have been spread over several 
years. 
