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Walnut trees are considered to bear better, or begin to bear 
if beaten, and there is an old saying, “ A wife, a dog, and a 
walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they'll be.” 
The Author’s Orchard 
consists of some four acres, with standard Bramley’s 
Seedlings, set out at 27 feet apart. Between these again 
are dwarf trees grafted on Paradise stock; the varieties 
being limited to Cox’s Orange Pippin, Bramley’s Seedling, 
Worcester Pearmain, and one or two others. In new 
orchard planting the great object is the production of large 
quantities of apples or pears in limited variety, each variety 
being carefully selected, and separated. These require little 
or no expensive labor in gathering, but in growing small! 
fruits, much hired labor is necessary, while the marketing 
is often a risky business. 
Bee-Keeping Alone. 
I have had many applications from those who would 
leave their present occupation, so that they may keep 
bees only, as a source of income. There could be no 
greater mistake in this country, than for an inexperienced 
man to set aside everything and go in for honey-producing 
only. If he wants to go into the country, he must have 
land; then if he has land he must have stock; and in a 
small way his stock should be principally good ‘milking 
cows. Consequently when he has land and stock, he will 
also be a producer of hay, and now we begin to see how a 
man, pining after a freer and healthy outdoor life, may 
support his family, if not in affluence, then, at least, in 
comfort. 
If the reader wishes to see this desirable state of life 
realised in his own case, he must be a man with a certain 
amount of capital, and be prepared to spend a year or 
so on a suitable farm where he can see how the routine 
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