373 A Modern Bee-Farm 



the bushel, as compared with 2s. 6d. to 5s. for the door 

 sorts from old orchards. 



Sound Advice — Avoid all Risks. 



Go slowly where you have no previous knowledge of the 

 industry you wish to carry on as a profitable undertaking. 

 And where you have capital to lay out, do not risk it 

 until you have been assured by a course of practical 

 instruction that }'OU are fitted for the business, and that 

 suitable returns will be ensured for the outlay. 



What is a Specialist? 



A great deal is heard nowadays of making a speciality 

 of any given subject, and devoting one's whole time to 

 that one object. This may answer very well in connection 

 with some ponderous undertaking; and also where 

 mechanics are no more than mere machines, adapted to 

 just one class of mechanism connected with a certain 

 manufacture ; though sad is the fate of that man who 

 falls out of this groove, being unable to take up the 

 threads of any other occupation, or even any other branch 

 connected with his own trade or profession, 



Far better is it for the average man to have several 

 strings to his bow, and good is the old adage which sa}-s, 

 " Do not put all your eggs in one basket." More 

 especially is this the case with rural occupations. The 

 author has been considered a specialist in bee-keeping ; 

 so also is he a specialist in poultry farming ; in dairying 

 and practical grass-farming ; he has been told that no 

 professional joiner could turn out better work at the bench 

 than his own handiwork' in that direction; he hopes to 

 become a specialist in apple and pear culture ; and 

 he has a firm conviction within, that all of these things 

 can be done well, while neither will clash with the other, 



