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Electrical 

 engineering. 



This is an elec- 

 trical age, but we 

 have i^ot yet be- 

 goD. to know all 

 the uses of elec- 

 tricity, to serve 

 man as he will be 

 served. In this 

 line opportunities 

 are absolutely un- 

 limited. All kinds 

 of positions in 

 electrical engi- 

 neering pay good 

 wages. Men with 

 many different 

 kinds of handi- 

 caps can do the 

 work, but they 

 must have tech- 

 nical training, and 

 this Uncle Sam, 

 through the Fed- 

 eral Board, will 

 provide free of 

 charge while you 

 and your depend- 

 ents are being 

 supported. 



Extent of Beekeeping in the United States. 



There are in the United States about 800,000 persona who own beea, 

 although not all of them can be rlassed as regular beekeepers. Perhaps 

 the average lice owner has about 10 colonies. Since there are many 

 owning bees by the hundreds of colonies, it is obvious that the majoril y 

 have only two or three colonies. This side line of a lew hives on the 

 farm does not really pay, but is just a little luxury. The type of bee- 

 keeping presented to you here is for a vocation, and is the practical 

 kind employed by the best beekeepers of the country — by men who 

 make a good living by keeping bees. 



The retail price of honey has gradually advanced to 40 cents or more 

 per pound, and beeswax to 42 cents wholesale, notwithstanding the 

 fact that there was produced in 1918 about 250,000,000 pounds of 

 honey. This probably does not cover the entire honey crop of tlie 

 United States, since a large amount is marketed locally. In fact this 

 product is so greatly in demand that a large percentage is sold at the 

 home of the apiarist. Apiarists can, if attentive to the attractiveness 

 of their product and considerate of their customers, hold them and 

 make of each an advertisement for additional business. The honey 

 crop of the United States is estimated annually at 820,000,000, and yet 

 there has never been a time when any country on the globe. could 

 produce enough to make this delicious food a common article of diet. 



i''iG. 10.— This beekeeper with an apiary ol 50 colonies, a garden, small fruits, and a cow on a tew acres 

 makes more than alivlng for his family of five] tersons. Notice the smoker hanging on the side of the mod- 

 ern lO-frame hive, from which lie has taken the heavily loaded name of bees and honey held in Lis 

 hands, the cover leaning against the hive and the super leaning against it, which contains tv.-o dozen 

 1-pound boxes of comb honey. 



