BEE CULTURE FOR LADIES.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43081, 13 April 1907, Page 4

BEE CULTURE FOR LADIES.

‘‘Bee culture offers a splendid opportunity for our settlers’ daughters and other ladies who would like an outdoor, healthy, and profitable occupation,” writes Mr I. Hopkins, Government Apiarian, in a bulletin on beeculture. “I may state that I take a special interest in this matter, and hope .to be the means of inducing many of our young women to take up beekeeping as a business. Ladies who take to it make excellent apiarists- —much better than the average man. In America they rank among the most successful ibeekeepers,; and . peasants’ wives on the Continent of Europe usually look after tte household bees, from which they derive-a considerable proportion of the family income. There is nothing to prevent a fairly healthy young woman from managing and doing the work, with a little assistance during the height of the season, of an apiary of 100 Lives. M- lady assistant at the Rudkura State Apiary is now capable of doing so. Her position should 'be a good object-lesson, and an encouragement to other young ladies to go and do likewise.”