Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-01
BEES, POULTRY AND FRUIT
make GOOD COMBINATION
Convenient Side Lines That Arc Mu.
/, >. tualiy Advantageous Should
Not Be Overlooked.
HINTS FOR HUsBANDMEN
Here is Program That Is Adaptable
to Any Proposition From Back
Yard to General Farm-Study and
Experience Demanded.
BY G. II. SMITH.

Author aud Practical PouItrymnn.
Pou4pymen are losing opportunities
by ntficcting convenient side lines. As
tnsataisinE OF fowls can be made
x6htnble secondary industry on tn.
Arm. so the keeping OF bees and the
Fculture OF fruit may no combined with
poultry with little inconvenience and
large advantage.
Tho vocation" must not be con-
qucred by the "avocation" All things
must be KEEP. we'll balanced. The
poultryman who gets too deeply into
other things dwarfs his principal oc
cupation. His trunk line becomes a
branch road. His business at once
shows symptoms OF confusion.
1t is best to boom with all posi-
Bile power the chief line. Everything
else must take secondary place. II you
arc poultryman. let no side issue
rival the big scheme in your vision OF
results. But this principle does not
Interfere with taking on two or three
naturally related lines of work.
The combination here suggested will
adapt itself to the little backyard bus
mess. conducted for recreation and
little incidental profit. or 1t will III
the thousand acre plantation. boom
Ing With the biggest noise and search
ing for the largest financial results
until II stands firmly on sure and
permanent commercial basis. The man
who banks everything on fancy prices
for fancy stock: that Is. whose hops Of
the future is based on fine feathers
rightly arranged. without any regard
TO the every day country store and
city stall market value OF mis- products
Is running great risks Of failure
II everything Is kept ard conducted
on the commercial basis. tho financial
. outlook will always be brigh, and
cheerful At the same time all that
IT is possible or prudent for man to
do along strictly fancy lines can be
done with almost no element Of haz-
: 3D.. Where one keeps from IA dozen
TO ATTY fowls in the little back lot.
there is small risk at any rate. for
pleasure and recreation are two OF the
main considerations. His living is not
involved His eggs are not all in this
one basket But where 800 fowls are
kept. and thousand or more are
raised every year. Il is we'll to see
10 II that the commercial basis is main
tained with utmost certainty.
Zee Culture an Enst Side Line.
Thousands of people are cultivatinE
bees for the pleasure of II. Incident
ally. they are gathering a nice profit.
One good hive Of the little honey get
tiers will store for your use from forty
to nifty pounds in one season This
ought 10 be worth $3.50 in cash right
at the door. II is easy TO see that
hundred colonies at this rate should
challenge the interest Of any man who
has the space to devote to their care
Not much space" Is required though.
This is one reason why the apiary can
be easily accommodated ION the side"
One bookkeeper in the West worked
his bee business up AS a side line til!
!. he had l65 colonies working most eff
fectively on lot only sixty by ITO
feet. Honey to the value of 400 was
produced one season All tho work
was performed mornings and even