6 Bee-Keeping for Women. 



■slronger body and improved health, the result of pure air, 

 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 physician's 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 " — whosj excellent and beauti- 

 fully written articles have so often 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 linrt 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. 



* * * I 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 beginning in the early spring, when the weather 

 was cool and the work light, I became gradually accus- 



