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supplies, has installed several colonies on the roof of his 
warehouse. This great building looms up in the very center 
of traffic, where one expects to find business humming, to 
be sure, but not bees. How they can possibly make a decent 
living is certainly a puzzle. 
With these and similar instances in mind we may easily 
believe Mr. Benson ^ when he says, " It may be safely said 
that any place where farming, gardening, or fruit raising can 
be successfully followed is adapted to the profitable keeping 
of bees.” It would be hard to believe that any one, old or 
young, could watch the daily lives of these mysterious ani- 
mals without being set a-thinking ; and those children who 
come to understand the social life going on within a hive, 
especially if they have tested the value of organization in 
any of their own occupations, can hardly fail to catch what 
is well called the ” spirit of the hive.” 
To some persons the keeping of poultry recommends itself 
as an accessory of school gardening, although the line would 
be carefully drawn so that the two interests should not clash, 
for ” Chickens in the garden! ” would hardly be a welcome 
cry. Experiments in poultry keeping have perhaps been 
nowhere more successfully made than at Hyannis, Massa- 
chusetts. Mr. Baldwin says: 
Certain very important characteristics which were not suspected from 
the regular school work were clearly manifest in the poultry house. In 
fact, enough has already come to me along this line to prove that here 
is a new and reliable means of applying practical tests and of helping 
students to see and correct inherent weaknesses.^ 
Quite a different sort of side show, which may be undertaken 
by a young gardener sometime during his career, will be the 
1 Professor O. H. Benson, United States Department of Agriculture. 
2 W. A. Baldwin, Poultry- Raising as a School Occupation. 
