22 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



CHEAP BOAKD-BILLS. 



The item that gave me the gTeatest chance for economy 

 was my board-hill. I boarded myself all the time I was in 

 college. My board cost me thirty-five cents a week or less most 

 of the time. The use of wheat helped to keep down the bill. 

 A bushel of whole wheat thoroughly boiled will do a lot of 

 filling up. The last ten weeks, with less horror of debt before 

 me, I became extravagant, and my board cost me sixty-six and 

 a half cents a week. 



In the long run, however, I paid dear enough for my board, 

 for its quality, together with a lack of exercise, so affected my 

 health that I never fully recovered from it. Strange to say, I 

 was so ignorant that I did not know fexereise was essential to 

 health. That was before the day of athletics in college. 



STUDY AND PRACTICE OP MEDICINE. 



After teaching a term in Geneseo (N. Y.) Academy, I took 

 up the study of medicine in Johnstown, Pa., attended lectures 

 in Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, Mich., and received the 

 degree of M.D. I practiced medicine a short time in Earlville, 

 111., and went to Marengo, 111., for the same purpose, in July, 

 1856. 



It did not take more than a year for me to find out that I 

 had not a sufficient stock of health myself to take care of that 

 of others, especially as I was morbidly anxious lest some lack 

 of judgment on my part should prove a serious matter with 

 some one under my care. So with much regret I gave up my 

 chosen profession. 



TEACHES AND TRAVELS. 



In 1857 I abandoned a life of single blessedness, marrying 

 Mrs. Helen M. White. I spent some years in teaching vocal and 

 instrumental music, and was for several years principal of the 

 Marengo public school. Before devoting my entire time to 

 beekeeping, I was for one year principal of the Woodstock 

 school, most of the time driving there thirteen miles each morn- 

 ing, and returning to Marengo at night. 



