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Best Pursuit to Combine with 

 Bee-KcepinS' 



Qnery^ 861.— 1. Will the poultry buBlness 

 and bee-keeping go well together ? 2. If not, 

 what do you consider as the best pursuit to 

 combine with the keeping of bees ? — Ohio. 



1. Yes. — Dadant & Son. 



1. Most certainly. — A. J. Cook. 



1. Yes. 2. Horticulture. — Jas. A. 

 Stone. 



1. Yes. 2. Small fruits, also. — 

 Eugene Secok. 



1. Fairly well. 2. Sheep, and some 

 kinds of fruit. — P. H. Elwood. 



1. Yes, poultry keeping and bee-keep- 

 ing go well together. — A. B. Mason. 



1. Yes. 2. Sheep breeding, winter 

 dairying, green-house, etc. — J. H. Lak- 



RABEE. 



1. Possibly it would. 2. Dairying, on 

 a small scale, works well. — J. M. Ham- 



BAUGH. 



I see no reason why the poultry busi- 

 ness might not go well with bee-keeping. 

 — C. C. Miller. 



1. Yes, it would do about as well as 

 anything. Grapes go well with bees. — 



C. H. DiBBERN. 



1. Yes. 2. Or such fruits as ripen in 

 autumn, as grapes, plums, peaches, etc. 

 — R. L. Taylor. 



1. Yes. 2. Almost anything you have 

 a liking for, unless your locality pre- 

 vents. — E. France. 



I think so, but I have no practical 

 experience, as I keep nothing but bees. 

 — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



1. Yes, first rate. 2. I should con- 

 sider both poultry and small fruits ex- 

 cellent. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. Yes. 2. Fruit growing is another 

 excellent pursuit, in combination with 

 bee-keeping. — Will M. Barnxtsi. 



They will go together as well as any 

 two occupations, the busiest time of 

 both of which comes in the summer. A 



better business to go with bee-keeping 

 would be one which furnished occupa- 

 tion for the winter, but required little or 

 no care during the summer. — James A. 

 Green. 



1. I judge that they go very well to- 

 gether. 2. Gardening and fruit-raising 

 and bee-keeping go well together. — M. 

 Mahin. 



Yes, they will work nicely together if 

 you have plenty of tact, snap and indus- 

 try. So will raising fruits and vegeta- 

 bles. — J. P. H. Brown. 



If you take kindly to poultry it will 

 succeed with bee-keeping, and if you 

 own a few acres of land I would advise 

 fruit raising in connection. — H. D. Cut- 

 ting. 



The poultry business will combine as 

 well as anything with bee-keeping, un- 

 less you can teach school winters and 

 work at the bees summers. — G. M. Doo- 



LITTLE. 



1. Yes, If one has time to attend to 

 both. 2. Bee-keeping alone will give 

 the ordinary man all he can attend to ; 

 that is, if he expects to make it pay. — J. 

 E. Pond. 



1. It may for those that like it, but 

 not any for rae. All will admit that it 

 is a, fowl business. 2. I think I should 

 like banking, but as I am not prepared 

 to run banking, I am trying fruit-grow- 

 ing. — S. I. Freeborn. 



First, poultry is very nice to combine 

 with bee-keeping provided you do not 

 run either too extensively, but my ex- 

 perience is that if you have your hands 

 full of any one business, it is enough, as 

 one cow properly fed and cared for is 

 worth a half dozen that are only half 

 cared for. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



1. Yes. I have a flock of the Indian 

 Games, and so far (two years) all goes 

 well, although the young chicks play 

 sad havoc with the drones, unless the 

 hives are set up a foot or more from the 

 ground. There are, however, many 

 other pursuits that are successfully con- 

 joined with bee-keeping. — G. L. Tinker. 



There is mighty little in the poultry 

 business except, perhaps, to the breeders 

 of fine stock. A small dairy in a suit- 

 able locality fits an apiary nicely. We 

 tried it several years ago, and it paid 

 nicely, but we don't want too much of 

 the " root of all evil" now-a-days. and 

 we have sold off the Jerseys, keeping 

 only three. When a man gets tired of 

 too much of "this world's goods," the 

 only remedy to reduce, is to quit work. 

 — G. W. Demaree. 



