The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-12-21
Good Advice to a Young LADY.
MRS Z. T. TUPPER.

Mrs. Tupper:-I notice your
name in my fathers magazine for
October. 1 used to read your pa
per when little girl, and my ia
Their knew you and thought much of
you. We thought you must be dead,
but 1 am not entirely selfish,
though you may think me so.
/ want some advice,
and 1 know you win give it honestly.
NV father is crippled, and my moth
er very infrm, SO cannot go away
from home to earn anything, and if /
can do anything on farm to help,
would be so glad. Can 1 keep bees?
There are old gums in the neigh
borhood, and if l knew enough to-
care for them, think 1 could get
some on shares. My fathers all
died from want of care one year.
when he was sick. Is there any.
thing better / could do at home. 1
have a good deal to do out of doors
and in, but can spare some time.
for anything that will pay.
Pike county, No. SARAH c.
Appreciate you situation and the
energy and display. By all means
begin bee keeping; and 1 should not
fear to have you undertake the care
of all the bees you can. get by pur-
chase or a. shares. No doubt your
father has some treatise on bees.
Study that this winter, to begin
in earnest next summer. No man,
be he ever so well-posted, can keep
bees as.an intelligent woman can.
Nature has given her special quail
ications. Every part of the work is
light. l know several women who
make and paint their own hives, be-
sides attending to every detail of
the management of the apiary.
While / write, memory, brings
before my mind so wildly some of
the women who have kept bees sue
cessfully and proftably. Noble
women whose example is being fol-
lowed by others, who do not as
much as they should, record their
experience. Let me hear from you
again if in any way / can aid you.
1t cheers me to hear from one who
is resolute in trying TO aid herself
and the helpless ones in her charge.
And right here is a good place
to say that the raising of poultry, Ell
her choice kinds at high prices, or
good fowls for the market or for
their eggs, is branch of industry
not as highly appreciated as it
should be by our country women
and their daughters. In England,
no woman of any rank, either high
or low, fails to make both pretty
pets and spin money" from the
care Of poultry. 1t is now profit
able business in almost every part
of the country, for the price of eggs
is higher than ever, and dressed
poultry is in demand always. One
keeping bees can with little addi-
Uional time care for fowls. 1t is q
fascinating work, especially for
young ladies, and almost anywhere
can be commenced with little outlay.
We all know the story ofthe Dutch
man going to a new place, who,
pleading poverty, borrowed hen of
a neighbor, and of another neigh
Dor borrowed setting of eggs. He,
IN course of time, had a dozen fine
chicks. He weaned them young.
The old hen soon laid ''setting of
eggs" when he returned her to her
owner, and the eggs to the woman of
whom he borrowed them, with the
'emark, Il have now one fine start
n chicks, and it did not cost me a
;ent."
But seriously, it costs little to be-
lin with poultry, and little in a new
country for fixtures (where rods or
ogs are handy and we heartily |
commend an attempt at poultry
Bees and poultry will go well to-
ether, and we hope the plan of
papers upon their man
cement is being carried out
Bee Keepers Magazine.