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Need of Specialists in Beekeeping. 



The war revealed an insufficient number of available scientific 

 apiarists in the United States capable of giving instruction to those 

 desirous of engaging in commercial beekeeping. There are many 

 sufficiently trained, but they are reaping such financial returns from 

 their bees that they can not be induced to take up the work of training 

 others. The increasing educational work of the Federal Government 



PiQ. 17. — An apiary in an orchard in the hmestone hills. 



and of the several States in bee culture will afford men desiring to 

 undertake such work opportunities to secure positions. For this 

 service thorough theoretical training is required as well as good apiary 

 practice on a commercial scale. The teaching of beekeeping is a new 

 field for agricultural colleges and one which they gladly enter when 

 scientifically trained apiarists can be secured for giving instruction. 

 , Were qualified teachers available the list of colleges at the close of this 

 monograph offering instruction in beekeeping would be much longer. 

 However, intensive and thorough short courses are being conducted 

 as indicated in the list, and these present exceptional opportunity. 

 Many more short courses will be arranged. The training is, it is true, 

 mainly theoretical, but it can and should promptly be made practical 

 by forming a connection with some successful apiarist. 



