POULTRY RAISING 6i 



CHAPTER XXII. 



A combination plant for profit — Fruit, Poultry, Bees. 



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

 combined plant for those who want to go on either a 

 small or large scale, and do not want their eggs all in 

 one basket ; 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 pleasure 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 pro- 

 vide 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 around 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 liberally 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 capital taken into 

 consideration, than anything I know of. I have 

 cleared as high as $25.00 from a single hive in a season 

 with but little labor. You have to give them no at- 

 tention to speak of, from October ist to May ist, 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 to do its best, and there is but little 



