CHAPTER XXIII 

 A Combination Plant for Profit — Fruit, Poultry, Bees 



I feel that I must write a few words here on a com- 

 bined plant for those who want to go on either a small 

 or large scale, and do not want their eggs all in one bas- 

 ket; or to those who like a variety in life — for variety is 

 the spice of life. 



There is no combination of business, that I know of, so 

 profitable, and at the same time will give so much pleas- 

 ure in various ways as this. First of all, every poultry 

 plant should be covered with fruit. This is the very first 

 thing you should do. To provide your poultry with shade 

 and a peach tree gives the quickest shade of them all 

 Then the plum and the apple, and you are bound to get 

 immense crops of fruit, where you cultivate your ground, 

 and use your poultry manure arotmd your trees. And 

 when you are feeding your poultry, how nice it is to have 

 all the peaches you want to eat, or plums, or pears, 

 grapes, and, in fact, you should plant Hberally of all 

 kinds of fruit, and you will find life worth the living. 



Now you want bees to fertilize your blossoms, so you 

 will get large crops of fruit, and bees are very profitable 

 and afford a great amount of pleasure. They are very 

 profitable ; in fact, they often turn in a greater amount of 

 profit, time and captial taken into consideration, than 

 anything I know of. I have cleared as high as $25 from 

 a single hive in a season with but little labor. You have 

 to give them no attention to speak of from October i to 

 May I, and for only two months. May and June, do they 

 need any great amount of attention. 



I advise every one who keeps poultry to make of it a 

 combined plant — poultry, fruit, and bees. 



You must remember that fruit-trees you must have on 

 your poultry plant for shade, if you expect your poultry 



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