106 A Modern Bee-Farm 
Folding Fowls on the Land 
just as you would a flock of sheep, is something which 
many people are not acquainted with, and which our 
old-style farmers do not understand, and it is doubtful if 
they would take the trouble to do it. Well, this is how 
fowls can be made to pay to-day, in large pens which 
are shitted two or three times a week regularly and 
evenly over the land; so that where formerly half-a-ton 
of hay was secured, two tons and more is now the yield. 
Even in this district wherefrom 100 tons of dead fattened 
fowls are sent up from one station weekly, the Author is 
probably the only breeder who thus shifts his chickens 
over the land in movable pens. A 30 acre farm may 
easily carry 
100 Breeding Hens, ' 
besides the thousand or two chickens reared therefrom 
during the season, and the profit from each hen is usually 
found to be ten shillings for the year, in eggs and chickens 
produced. Here we have another £50 after paying all 
expenses. Consequently we are still left with the most 
important and most profitable department of culture upon 
the farm, that of the bees; and yet these require less’ 
labour and attention, and far less feeding’ than any 
other stock upon the place, when once the hives are 
well established. a 
They will show larger and more valuable returns than 
the cows, or the hay, and yet I will place the profits 
so low that the greatest grumbler will not be able to find 
fault with this, the modest sum of 41 per hive for 50 
colonies of bees, standing upon less than one-fourth of an 
acre. But then you see they take toll from your 
neighbours’ acres, from woodland and forest, his open 
pastures, gardens and orchards, and his waving fields of 
