BEES — FRUIT — HONEY AND MONEY 



section of the country, the better plan would 

 be not to overstock the home yard, but rather 

 resort to a system of outyards, placing fifty 

 to sixty hives of bees in, say, three yards, one 

 at the home and the others three miles from 

 the home in opposite directions, all of them 

 being easy of access. In this way the posses- 

 sion of, say, one hundred and fifty hives of bees 

 in the hands of an experienced person should 

 provide a fair income, especially if the product 

 is sold in the neighborhood at retail prices. 



There is a large number of people who keep 

 only three or four hives of bees to supply their 

 own table, and an occasional gift of honey to 

 a friend, who get great pleasure from keeping 

 them, and who like to point with pride to the 

 comb of immaculately white honey on the 

 table as the product of their busy bees. 



When it comes to a production of honey 

 which runs up into tons, then the placing of the 

 product comes under the heading of How to 

 Dispose of the Crop, of which we will speak 

 in a later chapter. 



9 



