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Profits in Bee-keeping. 
A RE there any successful boo farms 
exclusively devoted to bees? What 
is a fair average price for honey, 
and for bees by the swarm? Where is a 
good place for a beginner to procure 
stock, and how many hives should lie 
have in his apiary to start with? Do 
you think that a man could net two or 
three thousand per year after four or 
five years of experience? v. is. s. 
Cambridge, Md. 
There are many successful apiarists 
who make an exclusive business of bee¬ 
keeping ; in general, however, it cannot 
be recommended as a sole means of liveli¬ 
hood, being better adapted to the purpose 
of a side line in connection with some 
other more dependable source of income. 
The price of honey is, of course, very 
variable, depending upon its grade, 
quality and the condition of the market. 
Light honey, represented in the North 
by clover and basswood, usually sdls for 
several cents more per pound than dark 
honey of the grade of buckwheat. Per¬ 
haps six to 10 cents for extracted and 
10 to 13 for comb honey would repre¬ 
sent the ordinary range in price per 
pound. There is no market price for 
bees by the swarm, their cost in any 
locality depending upon the kind of bees! 
the size of the colony and the season of 
the year. The best place for a beginner 
to procure stock is from some bee-keeper 
in his neighborhood whose apiary is free 
from disease. Italian queens for improv¬ 
ing stock may be purchased from numer¬ 
ous breeders whose advertisements will 
be found in bee-keeping journals. From 
two to six hives would make a good 
nucleus for an apiary with which an 
aspiring apiarist might learn the busi¬ 
ness. There are several first-class bee 
journals published in this country, and 
many books devoted to bee culture, from 
these one may obtain all the information 
he needs. Anyone who starts in the busi¬ 
ness with the idea of netting two or three 
thousand dollars per year after four or 
five years, will in all probability have 
some very serious spells of the blues be¬ 
fore the expiration of that time. 
M. B. I). 
Failure of Canada Peas. 
C AN you explain why I cannot grow 
peas? Being always short of hay to 
winter my stock and knowing tin- 
value as a fodder of oats and peas mixed 
and cured as hay, three years ago I sowed 
a piece on fairly good ground, used what 
ought to be good seed, gave a dressing of 
fertilizer and expected a crop, but to my 
surprise the oats came tip well, the peas 
making a straggling growth which 
never reached over three to four inches 
high; in fact a complete failure. Think¬ 
ing that the seed had been poor the next | 
year I tried again, getting the best of 
Canada field peas for seed, and the . 
same results; the oats grew well, but 
the peas were a failure. Last Spring i 
thought that I would make another trial 
on a piece of good rich black loam; used 
the best seed obtainable the result a good 
crop of outs but no peas. I do not think 
on the two acres there were 50 pounds 
of pea straw, the tallest not over six 
inches. What is the matter that peas 
will not grow where oats, rye and corn 
give good crops? .t. !.. 
Wallingford, Conn. 
There may bo a dozen reasons. The 
seed peas may have been diseased. Soak¬ 
ing them in the formalin solution used 
for oats would help this. The soil may | 
be very sour. Oats and rye will make j 
fair growth in an acid soil, but peas 
require more lime. Perhaps a good coat 
of lime would start up the peas. The 
peas may need inoculation—the same as 
beans, clover or Alfalfa. We have many 
reports this year of great success with 
all pod-bearing plants in the use of the 
"culture” in commercial bacteria. These 
reports have convinced us that in many ! 
cases failures with peas and beans have 
been due to a lack of the needed bacteria 
in the soil. Inoculation will often help. 
Fall Cover Crops for Maine. 
H AY is our only product. We have no 
stock and manure is not obtainable. 
Humus we must have. If we seed 
Winter rye in September, we can plow 
and seed the following Summer, but if 
we sow Canada peas June IS. which 
is as early ns we can work the ground. 
I think we cannot get them under in 
season to seed down. What is your ad¬ 
vice? F. c. c. 
Maine. 
If your season is too late for a Spring 
cover crop like peas, we should from 
our experience crowd as much as possible 
into the Fall growth. Instead of rye 
alone we should sow half and half rye 
and barley, Hairy vetch, and half and 
half Cow-horn turnips and rape. The 
barley gives a good Fall growth, but will 
not live through Winter. You may find 
a strain of vetch that will live. The 
rape and turnips will give a good Fall 
growth and add some humus. < )ur plan, 
therefore, would be to get all possible 
growth in the Fall even if nothing but 
rye was left in Spring. 
Kieffer Pears or Potatoes? 
Value of Manure. 
I HAVE 10 acres of thin soil that grew 
only briers, and bad not been plowed 
for several years. Last year I plowed 
it and gave it a light coat of lime, then 
drilled it in Swedish Select oats, using 
about 125 pounds of 1 i/j-S-S fertilizer. I 
got a nice crop of oats considering the 
soil and year, also a light catch of clover 
and Timothy. I am now covering it with 
pure mule manure (without betiding). 
I wish to plant corn and potatoes. IIow 
much of that manure should I apply 
per acre? What kind of other fertilizer 
should I use? I am paying f>5 cents for 
what manure I can got on a 22-bushel 
wagon box. Am I payi g too much? I 
have only one-quarter mile to haul. 
Pennsylvania. R. it. s. 
You have what amounts to a gold 
mine in that manure supply. It would 
be worth over $8 a load in our country. 
We should use 20 loads to the acre for 
the corn. On the potatoes our plan would 
be to use eight to 10 loads of manure and 
000 pounds of the same fertilizer if you 
can buy it this year. 
Comparison of Straw With Manure. 
W ITH manure from stockyards costing 
.$1.45 per ton and straw at $12 per 
ton, is it economical to be saving 
with straw in bedding horses? I do not 
mean to bed lightly, but to use the same 
straw for bedding as often as possible by 
shaking the manure out of it. Is the 
average manure, such as sold from stock- 
yards. as valuable in proportion as a good 
commercial fertilizer, say one analysing 
4-8-7? The crop to be fertilized is late 
fruit. It. S. B. 
Harbour Creek, Pa. 
It certainly 
per ton. We 
out and air it 
place, making 
is when straw costs $12 
should shake the straw 
in loose piles in a sunny 
it go as far as possible. 
There is no fair comparison between ma¬ 
nure and fertilizer, for we usually buy 
the manure for the organic matter which 
it contains, while the fertilizer has none 
of this organic matter. A ton of manure 
will contain about 10 pounds of nitrogen, 
six of phosphoric acid and 12 of potash, 
while a ton of the fertilizer has 80 of 
nitrogen. 140 of phosphoric acid and 100 
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An acre of Kieffer Pears, say 110 to 140 trees, 
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