. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 86 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL BOYS' AND GIRLS' BEE CLUBS March An Account of a Most Successful Bee Club Which Under the Leadership of Charles A. Boyle, is Attracting Nation-wide Attention. ONE of the most practical educa- tional enterprises of recent years is the buys' and girls' club work. The success of the corn clubs, pig clubs, calf clubs and can- ning clubs has been remarkable. The bee club offered some more serious obstacles, but it has remained for Charles A. Boyle, of Kansas, to make it a success. Boyle is the district club leader at Emporia, and be
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 86 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL BOYS' AND GIRLS' BEE CLUBS March An Account of a Most Successful Bee Club Which Under the Leadership of Charles A. Boyle, is Attracting Nation-wide Attention. ONE of the most practical educa- tional enterprises of recent years is the buys' and girls' club work. The success of the corn clubs, pig clubs, calf clubs and can- ning clubs has been remarkable. The bee club offered some more serious obstacles, but it has remained for Charles A. Boyle, of Kansas, to make it a success. Boyle is the district club leader at Emporia, and became interested in the possibilities of bee clubs early in his experience as a club leader. Several bee clubs were started by others only to fizzle out, or had secured a very moderate de- gree of success. The difficulties be- came more apparent after the work was under way, and he decided that the bee clubs are of sufficient import- ance to justify specializing with them. Mr. Herbert Popense, County Agent, has actively co-operated with Mr. Boyle. To avoid possible disappointment, boys or girls whose parents did not already have bees were not encour- aged to take up the bee club work, but rather something with which they were already familiar. The de- sign was not to induce more people to keep bees, but to improve the bee- keeping on the farms where bees are kept. The results are particularly striking, because the work is being carried on in a county where there was, at the time the clubs were or- ganized, no commercial beekeeping. Most of the bees were kept on the let alone plan. As is usually the case in such communities, no way of production was known except to put sections on the hive and take what the bees placed therein. In a good season, a super or more of honey was secured; in a poor season, nothing: Swarms were the rule, and the profit shown by the bees was not such as to encourage a large investment in bee- keeping. The enthusiasm shown for the bee club was not great t
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