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Show a ii. Farmers should have Boos. - Bee keeping, says the Indiana Far-mer Far-mer appropriately belongs to farming. Farmers havo the soil and tho flowers, flow-ers, and when forage is wanting, they caa supply it by sowing and ptanting. We do not claim for bee-keeping that it is all profit and no loss, that it can be successfully managed without cost, but by intelligent management we know that it will give as good results foi the outlay as are obtained by any work done upon the form. As a specialty spec-ialty it will hardly pay, except in rare localities, but in connection with other pursuits it will pay; and well, too. Two-thirds of the value of an apiary consists of fixtures, hives and combaf When one has all the combs necessary for the bees, the number of colonies can be doubled in. one season, while the surplus from all-will be as large as when the bees Were kept in one hive. ' . |
