If Tou Do Not 



Take Training? 



You will go back 

 home under a 

 handicap, worth 

 less toelow the 

 neck possibly 

 than ever before. 

 The only way you 

 can overcome this 

 after the hospital 

 authorities have 

 done all they can 

 for you is by 

 mating y oursel f 

 worth more above 

 the neck. That 

 means training. 

 The Government 

 will provide this 

 for you entirely 

 free of charge. 

 Your instruction 

 will be paid for 

 and you and your 

 dependents will 

 be supported 

 while you are 

 getting your edu- 

 cation. What is 

 the answer? 



Choose the course 

 you want, after 

 consulting with 

 the representa- 

 tives of the Fed- 

 eral Board. Make 

 up your mind to 

 take the training. 

 After you have 

 gone home on a 

 furlough, tell the 

 folks that you are 

 determined to 

 make your future 

 and theirs safe. 



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unskilled labor the bee keeper may be saved much of the hardest part 

 of the work. Women have made a success of commercial beekeeping, 

 and while unable to do the hard physical work, they have had it per- 

 formed under their personal supervision by hired labor. Comb-honey 

 production is lighter work and not so many colonies are necessary to 

 get the same financial returns if the bee keeper retails his comb honey 

 at the apiary. However, with large apiaries composed of hundreds of 

 colonies the conditions change and comparison of financial retui'ns are 

 favorable to the production of extracted honey. The large commercial 

 bee keepers follow extracting. 



The Outfit Needed. 



In addition to the colonies of bees properly hived, the bee keeper 

 needs some other equipment. This chiefly consists of a small house 

 in which to prepare the equipment and extract the honey, keep mis- 

 cellaneous tools for fitting out the apparatus, and usually an autouio- 

 bile truck for moving bees and honey. It is usually not profitable 



Fig. 25. — Honey exlractor. 



to keeji more than 100 colonies in one apiaiy. It therefore becomes 

 essential to rent or buy small tracts of land — about 4 miles apart — 

 so that 100 colonies may be kept in each place. This necessitates 

 moving supplies and from time to time colonies of bees. For this 

 a small 1-ton truck is preferred by most commercial bcc keepers. At 

 first necessary hauling may be hired. The home apiary is usually 

 best equipped, and frequently it is the practice to haul in the honey 

 to the home apiary after extracting. Many use a small auto for this 

 servdce. Another plan is to have an extracting house rigged up on 

 ■a, trailer to the auto or truck, so that it may be moved from place 

 to place as needed. Usually the only labor employed at the time of 

 extracting is unskilled, but if your disability ia troublesome when pre- 

 paring for winter or in doing other work, you can hire such help as you 

 may need. Even during the swarming season you may hire somebody 

 to take down the hives while you examine the combs lor queen cells 

 and perform the various operations necessary for swarm control. 



