April, ’23] 
CORY: REHABILITATION CLASSES IN APICULTURE 
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The production of small fruits, vegetables, flowers, the raising of 
poultry and the keeping of bees, offer the best opportunities with this 
environment in view. 
Finance plays an important part in the choice of vocation. The 
activities mentioned may be entered upon with less capital than the 
larger farm enterprises. Returns on the investment may be expected 
more quickly, which is certainty a desideratum. 
Many in training are handicapped by physical disabilities, which 
preclude continuous exertion day after day for eight or ten hours per 
day. Others, through the loss of a hand, a foot or a leg can do only 
certain limited kinds of physical labor. To these must be added those 
who have mental troubles, which make for despondency, the magnifica¬ 
tion of bodily ills and the worry of small things gone awry. 
Beekeeping fits admirably in the scheme of rehabilitation for men so 
handicapped, offering a relatively large return on time and money in¬ 
vested; giving seasonal employment, to be performed only on the clear 
or sunshiny days amid pleasant surroundings, and requiring study of its 
many problems that will engage the mind with a tendency to exclude 
the ex-soldier’s mental troubles. 
What to give the trainee to fit him to keep bees in a short time is, of 
course, debatable. It has seemed to the writer that however desirable 
a study of behavior is as a basis for the necessary operations of keeping 
bees, the operations or manipulations themselves should be stressed, 
at least in the first or beginning course. 
With this in view, a two term course is offered to beginning students of 
the Veterans Bureau, supplemented by project work in connection with 
their placement training. The first term’s work consists of one lecture 
and three hours in the laboratory per week. The lectures are illustrated 
by stereopticon, supplemented by exhibit material. Short quizzes are 
given on single, concrete questions as each natural division of the sub¬ 
ject matter is finished. The laboratory work is designed to familiar¬ 
ize the student with his equipment, tools and apparatus. 
One laboratory period is devoted to a study of the worker, drone and 
queen bee. Mimeographed outline drawings about eight inches long, 
of the three types of bees are given to the students, together with speci¬ 
mens, and the student required, by aid of text books, demonstrations, 
dissections and projected pictures, to place on the outline drawings, 
certain’important structures and to label the parts of the bee. 
Each student is furnished with a complete knocked down body, 
bottom board, cover, comb super, extracting super, sections, frames, 
