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than the north end of a south wind in Kansas. The secret of 

 my success with bees is keeping them well filled with Winter 

 stores. 



Our bees are wintered on stands placed under a shed ten 

 feet by fifteen or thirty, facing the east. It protects them from 

 the hot sun in Summer, and the cold in Winter. 



THE GARDEN. 



I have a very fine garden in the bottom land, which is highly 

 manured in the Fall and Spring. I buy the most reliable 

 seeds in the market when I can not raise them m3^self. I have 

 to thank the Agricultural Department at Washington for some 

 of my best. I plant early, often in the Fall, and my vegeta- 

 bles are ready for the early market, and I am neither too proud 

 nor ashamed to peddle my own products in my buggy in the 

 village. There is a false pride that keeps many poor, and 

 deprives home of its comforts. The early rhubarb is often my 

 best crop ; next potatoes. The Beauty of Hebron and Early 

 Rose succeed best here, when planted early. 



FRUIT. 



I have raspberries, blackberries, and peaches, and in a short 

 time will have plenty of apples. Peaches bear from the seed 

 in three years ; apples in five years. The Mammoth Cluster 

 and Doolittle raspberries are best. For blackberries we have Kit- 

 tatiny and Snyder, and the natural blackberry and raspberry. 



Within my range of vision I see farms upon which one 

 hundred varieties of fruit have been planted at a large expense, 

 when experience tells me that ten varieties of apples that have 

 been tried, are worth them all. 



HOME. 



If my home does not please the eyes of others, it affords 

 me pleasure, and meets the wants and preserves the health 

 of my family. I have two essentials, good ventilation and 

 plenty of sunlight. Where the latter does not enter the 

 physician does. My kitchen is built to save steps, and econo- 



