760 JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIANA. 



them at any time needed food to stimulate or prevent Spring 

 dwindling. 



COMB HONEY. 



Comb honey I obtain in single comb sections, containing one 

 and one and a half pounds each, respectively. These sections 

 are held in place by holders of improved shape and construc- 

 tion, and are readily removed or placed in the hive. To obtain 

 extracted honey, I use the same hive, making a few simple 

 changes, and having as many as eighteen frames or comb-hold- 

 ers in a row, but not, as in all other hives, placing one tier of 

 frames over another. With this hive the management of the 

 honey bee becomes an easy, pleasant, and profitable employ- 

 ment. This branch of my farm business I find more profitable 

 than any other, in comparison with the capital and labor re- 

 quired. But unless a farmer finds pleasure in the occupation, 

 is willing to devote some time to the study of the nature 

 and habits of his busy little friends, and will give careful, intel- 

 ligent attention to their wants, by providing suitable imple- 

 ments ancl hives, any outlay in this direction is sure to meet 

 with failure. Should he, however, engage in it earnestly, at 

 first only in a small way, and increase the business as he gains 

 in knowledge and experience, he will be certain to have hand- 

 some returns on his investment. 



FRUIT. 



I grow the usual varieties of apples, pears, peaches, plums, 

 quinces, and cherries. It may not be out of place to say, that 

 the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, when a young man, preaching 

 in the then West, selected the varieties of apples for my oldest 

 orchard. A number of farms in this vicinity, averaging from 

 fifty to three hundred acres, are devoted exclusively to fruit 

 raising, principally the peach. Peach trees can be counted by 

 the thousands, and during a fruit year the business in this line 

 is immense. 



