Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1914-03-11
Bookkeeping in
Minnesota.
BY Rev. FRANCIS JAEGER,

adaptations for various lines of gen.
erel agriculture with which the nor.
thern part of our state is blessed,
there is one in particular which has
received little if any attention from
either the prospective or the estab-
lshed settler. This is the production
of honey.
In most lines Of specialized farming
there are always certain other
branches that naturally go hand in
hand with the principal business of
the farm, the one supplementing or
aiding the other and serving to utilize
waste or by-products that would
otherwise constitute total loss.
For instance: The pursuit of dairy
ing may be accompanied by the rails
ing of hogs, and the orchardist finds
poultry raising to his advantage.
Likewise the Northern Minnesotan
will find that with the opening of his
dairy farm, his fields and clearings
will bring forth in abundance sup
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which ready money may be obtained
with but little effort and less cost.
In short, Northern Minnesota is a
Bee-Keepers' Paradise Nowhere in
the State has Nature been so liberal
with her sweet gifts. She seems to
say: Come here!-and whilst you
are laboring to clear your farm for
you and your family, l will provide
your daily necessities with my crop
of honey. You need not wait long
either from the very start shall give
you all you want for the asking. Just
put some bee hives on the tree stumps
yonder and I will show you what I
can do
"A land flowing with milk and
honey'-that country of the stumps!
Bookkeeping may become most i'm
portant factor in the settlement of
Northern Minnesota.
What an opportunity for an enter
prising young man, looking for an
opening to make start To build a.
home with his limited means, to clear
piece Of land for crop, to provide
buildings for his stock, to buy his
cattle, however, takes a few years of
time. What will he do in the mean
time for his living? He is limited
even in the amount of poultry he can
raise until he can grow sufficient feed
for it.
Here is where your faithful friend,
the bee, comes to your assistance.
Take with you as many hives of bees
as you can when moving to your north
ern home. AS if they knew your limit
atoms, they do not ask any expensive
feed from you. If only given chance
they will board themselves Give
those colonies of bees plenty of comb
honey supers in the spring, boxes fill
ed with full sheets of foundation
and in early fall you may remove
from each hive one hundred and more
one-pound boxes of delicious white
comb-honey. In your neighboring
town you may exchange it for groc-
cries, and other necessities, or sell
it for IA to IS cents pound A COL
ony of bees properly managed ought
to bring you ten dollar bill in the
fall.
A location where wild raspberry is
plentiful will yield honey heavily early
in the season for the bees to build on
and get strong. Eastwood is common
in many places. It blooms in July. A
hundred Eastwood trees within one or
two miles will keep an apiary busy.
There is also your goldenrod with
which Northern Minnesota abounds
along with large number of other
honey bearing plants.
But all those sources OF honey are
as nothing compared to your clover