Women students of beekeeping at the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women
English: Title: American bee journal Identifier: americanbeejourn5657hami (find matches) Year: 1861 (1860s) Authors: Subjects: Bee culture; Bees Publisher: (Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons) Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 168 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL May to take a medical examination to show physical fitness as well as suitable men- tal preparation. The course is said to be too strenuous for delicate women. As will be seen from the picture of the class in beekeeping, the students are given practical work in the subjects which they are taught. Two hours of practical work to one of books is the rule throughout the course. The work includes floriculture and greenhouse management, landscape gardening, fruit growing, vegetable gardening, poultry keeping, beekeeping, canning and preserving. In many re- spects the work resembles that offered in the Agricultural Colleges, excepting that here the students have practical experience in the apiary, greenhouse or garden through the entire year. The jam kitchen is an interesting place where the products of the school farm are prepared for market. Fruits are made into jellies and preserves, and the honey is bottled for a special trade. While there are similar institutions in Europe, there is no other school in America offering this particular train- ing for women. Miss Elizabeth Leighton Lee, direc- tor of the school, says: "The object of the School of Horticulture is to give to educated women scientific in- struction, combined with all necessary conditions for much actual practice; the course being planned to equip women with the theoretical and practi- cal knowledge that will enable them to manage private and commercial gar- dens or orchards. Thorough training throughout the various seasons of the year eliminates the discouragements of costly inexperience, and fits a woman for a vocation that is healthful, attrac- tive and remunerative." f. c. p. One who has any proper conception of the subject cannot help being thrilled to think what it will mean to the coun- try when schools of this kind become common—as they surely will. A woman who has been through a two-year course at Ambler need have little to fear in meeting life's struggle if she should be thrown upon her own resources. Yet important as it is that those women who live lives of single blessed- ness shall be prepared to steer their lone barks, it is of vastly more conse- quence that married women shall do their part well, if for no other reason than because there are so many more of them. It is a great thing to be a home-maker. Lillian Russell, the noted opera-singer and actress, lately wrote in the Chicago Daily Herald : " Women who are making good homes need not feel that their work is insignificant; they are engaged in the greatest work life offers. Their sisters may paint beautiful pictures, write won- derful stories or rise to exalted posi- tions in business or the professions; but the home builder is, after all, the greatest producer of beauty and happi- ness. All else in life is in a large meas- ure dependent upon her. Government may fall and religion may totter if she fails in her duties. " Women who create beautiful homes can find time for other things; their lives need not be narrow. Many chan- nels to success in other directions are open to them. They have a better chance to reach exalted positions in their communities and nations than the women who have never felt the won- derful exhilaration and inspiration of the home builder. " Man may erect a building, but it takes a woman to make it a home. It is a woman that puts the wonderful sweetness in the word home. She is the creator of the beauty and happiness that convert a dwelling place into a home." So let us rejoice that Ambler women are being prepared to make better homes, and that the vision is broad enough to include beekeeping as one of the things the home-maker may well know something about. Miscellaneous W) News Items Suggestions for the Control ot Foul- brood.-—The following gleaned from the instruction given by B. F. Kindig, State Inspector of Michigan, is worthy of attention: V.ery few colonies of bees actually die from foulbrood during the summer. The disease causes the colonies to be- come very weak, and they, therefore, store up very little food for winter. If they do not starve to death sooner, or are not killed by robbers, the first real cold weather usually kills them. These conditions cause many beekeepers to look upon the death of their bees as purely due to winter killing. In a large measure winter killing is due to disease. From now on until late spring, every beekeeper should look upon the death of any colony with suspicion, watch the hives on warm days, and if the bees are flying from some hives and not from others, take the hive from which the bees are flying, inside of a building and there make an examination of the in- terior. If the colony is found to be dead or nearly so, do not again place the hive where it can be robbed, but suffocate the bees and close the^hive securely. Any colony that is being robbed may be a source of disease. which disease may be carried to all the healthy colonies in the vicinity. Any beekeeper who is not familiar with the appearance of combs in which disease is present should send a piece of the comb under suspicion. A box for mailing will be furnished, if desired. No charges are made for the examina- tion of the comb. If disease is found to be present, specific directions for disposing of the combs, and for treat- ing the disease in living colonies, will be sent to the person sending in the combs for examination. If beekeepers will heed the above suggestions, it will "prevent in large measure the further spread of foul- brood. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomoloey. Washington. D. C. Ohio Beekeepers Neet At the meet- ing of the Ohio Beekeepers' Associa- tion the following officers were elected : President, Melville Hayes, Wilmington : Vice-president, Fred Leininger, Del- phos; Secretary-Treasury,ErnestKohn, Grover Hill. A field meet will be held at Wilming- ton the latter part of August. Western Washington Meeting.—Suc- cess attended the annual convention of the Western Washington Beekeep- ers' Association held in Chehalis Feb. 'J. Southwest Washington was well represented. N. P. Welson, of Centralia, was elect- ed President, and W. L. Cox, of Elma, was reelected Secretary-Treasurer. Text Appearing After Image: THE STUDENTS ARE GIVEN PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.