. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEiE^-KE^EPERS' REVIEW. 43 itig children apiculture. I had hoped that some one more able than myself would take up the subject long ere this, and explain its interests and benefits, but, as no one has, I will give my ideas, in hopes that abler pens than mine will take up the subject and give it the attention it deserves. I was much gratified to learn through the bee papers that Mr. York and others had been giving lectures on bees before the children in the public schools, and I wish the same thing could be done everywhere in the schools, as I feel su
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEiE^-KE^EPERS' REVIEW. 43 itig children apiculture. I had hoped that some one more able than myself would take up the subject long ere this, and explain its interests and benefits, but, as no one has, I will give my ideas, in hopes that abler pens than mine will take up the subject and give it the attention it deserves. I was much gratified to learn through the bee papers that Mr. York and others had been giving lectures on bees before the children in the public schools, and I wish the same thing could be done everywhere in the schools, as I feel sure that a great benefit could be derived from such lectures, but, as all of our children do not have the privilege of hearing such lectures at school, we will do well to give them lectures at home, and get them in- terested in the bees. I find this can best be done by giving them a hive of bees. There is something in a child, as well as in a grown person, that likes to say "this is mine'^ and children will be very proud of their own property. When the colou}^ swarms, and they have tzuo^ their joy seems almost complete. Not only give the child the colony, but all of the re- turns. This will create a still greater interest. Then, by furnishing books and bee papers, and encouraging the child to read, it will not be long before it will be manipulating and caring for its own hive, or, in other words, running a business of its own; and, in marketing the honey, buying sections, foundation, etc., it will be getting a few budness lessons along with the rest. But this is not all, to ed- ucate the child in bee culture as it grows up, brings it in close touch with Nature, and some of her wonderful ways, and the more of a student of Nature one becomes the richer harvest will one find in the bees and flowers. As the child grows older, it is sure to admire the wisdom which created these wonderful things, and thus the mind is led from Nature up to Na- tures' God; and to point the child to
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