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Without the said experience, the novice will often 

 invest in Incubators, Rearers, and all the latest appliances, 

 knowing nothing whatever of their intricate uses, nor the 

 difficulties ahead of him ; while disease about which he 

 knows nothing, may ruin his stock birds before he can get 

 a fair start. The result is, from his own point of view, 

 that poultry keeping does not pay, and before twelve 

 months are over, he sells out at a ruinous sacrifice. 



FRUIT FARHINQ. 



Nothing can very well be worked to better advantage in 

 connection with bee-keeping ; but from the author's point 

 of view, only the best varieties of apples and pears are 

 worth planting. In cultivating small fruits there is more 

 risk of failure, the labour is a very heavy item, and far 

 more attention is required. Large quantities of small 

 fruits are frequently returned to the grower, as unsaleable, 

 throHgh the immense quantities of foreign fruits, though 

 perhaps inferior in quality, claiming the first attention of 

 buyers, being in greater bulk. Hence the home grower 

 has often had to pay carriage both ways, to and from the 

 large markets, and have his fruit spoiled into the bargain. 

 Therefore, unless one is located close to a large jam 

 factory, or is a maker of preserves himself, it certainly is 

 advisable to cultivate only those fruits such as pears and 

 apples, principally upon quick-bearing dwarf trees, planted 

 sornething after the fashion of cabbages. 



In this case there is no hurry in marketing the fruit, 

 except when some of the early ripening varieties are 

 concerned. Some of the best pears and apples fetch very 

 high prices, and there is no reason whatever, when start- 

 ing to plant an orchard, why any but the best should be 

 grown, and such will often realise as much as los. to i6s. 



