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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



fruit needs to be gathered and 

 marketed just at the time wlien tlie 

 bees demand tlie most careful at- 

 tention ; and neither one can be 

 neglected at this juncture without 

 suffering loss. Sheep-raising and 

 wool-growing might go well along 

 with "beekeeping. At the time 

 when the bees would need the most 

 care, the sheep would require but 

 very little attention, and vice versa. 

 White and Alsike clover make ex- 

 cellent pasture for both. 



ANSWKR BY G. W. DEMARKE. 



It would depend on how he is 

 situated. If lie has at his command 

 a small tract of land he might 

 raise a few pigs ; some poultry 

 for home use if he has a family to 

 support. He could engage in small 

 fruit culture, gardening or any 

 like employment that promised to 

 yield a profit. A small dairy in 

 connection with the apiary is a 

 very suitable arrangement if there 

 is good sale for the products. My 

 litfle dairy in connection with niy 

 apiary pays well, and is but little 

 in ihe way of apiary work. One 

 might raise pigs of the best stock 

 for breeding i)urposes or for the 

 market. Melon culture pays in 

 some localities. 



Make it a rule to make a little 

 out of any branch of agriculture 

 that promises to help out the in- 

 come of tlie apiary. Go at it 

 slowly, surely and patiently, and 

 you vvill find'yourself far ahead of 

 many who have cut a big swell in 

 business in the final outcome. 



ANSWER MY J. W. PORTER. 



This question will admit of much 

 broader treatment than the ''Ques- 

 tion and Answer" department can 

 appropriately find room for. The 

 writer has a large farm and one 

 hundred acrt«s of it are devoted to 

 fruit trees and grai)e vines. 



He has to lead an active life and 



finds it better for him. He has 

 been told by specialists that he 

 ought not to keep bees ; he would 

 not, but for the love of bee culture. 

 No one engaged then in a business 

 which affords full scope for his en- 

 ergy should take up any side busi- 

 ne^ss or pursuit, unless he is espec- 

 ially fond of it. Then, it is of 

 the nature of recreation. We all 

 love ciiange. 



Those confined to one routine 

 of work are often obliged to, and 

 do, seek recreation in other forms. 

 Others wear themselves out before 

 their time for want of it. 



The fruit business — small or 

 large fruits — is well suited to fol- 

 lov" in connection with apiculture. 

 So is poultry-keeping. We do 

 not take stock in the idea of this 

 being a business for the special- 

 ists peculiarly. 



We rather like the English idea 

 which is more like the time-hon- 

 ored one applied to poultry. Ev- 

 ery one who has any aptitude and 

 liking for the business should be 

 encouraged to take a hand in it. A 

 good, active man can do well in 

 any business he is qualified to push, 

 wliile there are so many drones in 

 the human hive. 



For many reasons it is well not 

 to carry all your eggs in one bas- 

 ket. Fruit may fail, nectar may 

 fail, traile may" stagnate and bad 

 debts cut off all the profits. 



Diversified industry is the safest 

 fur the worker. Our bees in a 

 humbler way illustrate this for us. 

 The good worker can and does turn 

 his '^hand " many ways. Cleaning 

 house, house-building and food 

 gathering, he is a good defender of 

 his home and a capital nurse and 

 turns himself into a windmill to 

 make liis home habitable in torrid 

 heat. A -'Jack at all trades" is he 

 and thrives. 



ANSWER BY HENRY ALLEY. 



Very few people can make bee- 



