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per lb,, and make plenty of money out of it ; but I think 

 it is really worth 15 cents, (/^d.), and is cheaper at that 

 price than anything else of its kind we buy to eat ; and if 

 I sold at the lower price my neighbours who keep bees, 

 and many of them very poor, would have to go out of the 

 business. I aim to buy all the honey produced I can hear 

 of for miles around, and pay 15 cents, cash for it — ^just 

 what I sell it at — and this prevents farmers running it in 

 and glutting the market." 



We see then that this large producer is not only 

 generous, but at the same time knows how to manage his 

 market, and this policy is in the interests of all concerned. 



AIDS TO BEE-CULTURE. 



Shall your occupation be Bees alone ? No ! Poultry 

 alone? NEVER! Fruit alone ? well hardly, unless you 

 have a large capital, for you must wait many years before 

 profitable returns are seen ; but grass farming and dairy- 

 ing, or general agriculture, if followed after a reasonable 

 period of practical study, should, in connection with bees 

 and poultry establish you upon a sound basis. 



In Establishin^f a Dairy 



your object should be to go slowly, and meanwhile pick 

 out the very best animals for milk or butter as the require- 

 ments of your district may suggest. If you buy a lot of 

 inferior animals to start with you are doomed to fail. I 

 have come to the conclusion that for either milk or butter, 

 there is nothing to beat a good Jersey cow for small 

 farms. She will yield milk all through her time, and in 

 the end gives as much as the larger varieties which yield 

 heavily for a short time only. Your goal should be the 

 attainment of animals that will average 10 quarts of milk 

 daily, or 10 lbs. of butter weekly. Heifers should start 



