Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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The Students at work m Greenhouse

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Visit to the Farm Journal Building. Miss Jessie T. Morgan, the Director, and studeuts were delightfully entertained by Wilmer Atkinson at the Farm Journal Building. After taking them over the building and showing them the wonderful up-to-date improvements, he took them to the beautiful dining room on the top floor, where luncheon was served. Mr. Atkinson is on the advisory board of the School and is frequently consulted regarding matters of importance. “New Jobs for New Women” is the title of an interesting article in Everybody’s for March, in which the writer says: “In one of the large New York Bureau’s for Trained Women they are carefully answering hundreds of questions as to whether Germany or the United States has the better schools for market-gardening and fruit growing; also if an expert in Oriental rugs might establish herself in business and whether there might be a chance for a domestic-science teacher in the far East. Though salaried positions are few, agriculture, gardening and bee raising and intensive farming offer fine opportunities to the women with a little capital and much business ability.” We have just received Volumes V, VI and VII of the Reports of the Thirteenth Decennial Census relating to Agriculture. These books contain a summary of the statistics by subjects, with a general analysis, data regarding each, being presented by geographical division and States. It takes up the subject of agriculture in each State, giving size of farms, individual crops, number of domestic animals, poultry: and bees, expenditure for labor, fertilizers, value of crops, etc. The three volumes will be of great value to the farmer. Bees. In all our broad and beautiful land, one is amazed to find that bee culture is on the decline, only four tarms out of every hundred reporting apiaries in the United States. In our own State the number of farms with bees has decreased 23 per cent. This seems such an important industry, as there is always a demand for good wax and honey. “No one need be afraid of bees, as the Italian bees are as amiable as kittens. The Queen, given a brand-new house and a brand-new door, with a preliminary skirmish, enters, her workers following, dragging their stings behind them. It is most interesting to watch the nurses offering honey-drops to the big bee-babies on the tips of their little red tongues. Bee keeping is a most interesting and lucrative business,” so says The Spectator in one of A. I. Root s pamphlets, and so say we all of us, for last year from a few small hives we gathered 400 pounds of strained honey which we sold for thirty cents a pound, besides the wax which we used on hundreds of grafts; in addition, the wonderful increase in our orchard was largely due to the work of our honey-bees in the fertilization of the fruit blooms. The burden of suffering seems a mill-stone hung about our necks, while in reality, it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while lie is hunting for pearls.—Richter.

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CITY GARAGE Strehle-MyersMotorCo. Proprietors Ford and Oakland Cars Demonstrations on revest Full Line of Accessories Cars to hire at all hours for all purposes at reasonable rates by hour or trip. Both Phones. The James G. Downward Go. ..Manufacturers of.. FERTILIZERS — and---- Importers of Chemicals Special Mixtures Made to Order. FACTORY: C0ATF8VILLE, PA. J. E. UNDERWOOD AMBLER, PA. USE HIRE’S COLD MILK Purest and Most Wholesome SOLD BY FIRST-CLASS GROCERS Yezzir! Thirsts of any age or either sex subdued with Hires 5 cents per quaff At fountains or in bottle at grocers’, fruit stands, etc.