Gleanings in bee culture . fe and their doing, it is a blessing to herif she can pick up an avocation that ispleasing, healthful, and reuuinerative, tiuissegregrating herself from idleness and friv-olity.^ Cottage Garden is a two-acre fi-uitand flower farm developed out of a forsak-en, barren, suburban knoll composed mostlyof subsoil. We took up a proposition ofthis kind because of a breakdown under atremendous strain. (Note the willingnessof one doctor to take his own medicine!)Our plan, originally, was to put out choicefruits and vegetables for the use of ourfamily, selling the surplus. We w
Gleanings in bee culture . fe and their doing, it is a blessing to herif she can pick up an avocation that ispleasing, healthful, and reuuinerative, tiuissegregrating herself from idleness and friv-olity.^ Cottage Garden is a two-acre fi-uitand flower farm developed out of a forsak-en, barren, suburban knoll composed mostlyof subsoil. We took up a proposition ofthis kind because of a breakdown under atremendous strain. (Note the willingnessof one doctor to take his own medicine!)Our plan, originally, was to put out choicefruits and vegetables for the use of ourfamily, selling the surplus. We wanted alarge planting of finepeonies, a large vine-yard of fancy tablegrapes, and we alsowanted bulbs andshrubbery bloomingfor Memorial day. Ourincome was standard-ized at $500 a year,and the labor at fivehours a day; but wefound that these couldnot be kept uniform,as some crops failedon account of condi-tions beyond our con-trol, and some requir-ed tAventy-four houislabor a day. For in-stance we cut and mar- MARCH 1, 1913. Fig. 3.—Winter cases made of barn-siding, which are used in the summer for chicken-coops. keted 600 dozen peony blossoms and a wag-onload of other blossoms in seventy-twohours before Decoration day. Bees wereadded to pad up this income by providingan alternate. We found the honey cropfluctuated too. as we have onlj^ one mainpasture in this location, that being white clover. However, when all crops are goodour beloved recreation becomes a veiy stren-uous occupation. The apiary consists of from twenty-fiveto fifty stands. We like about thirty. It isessentially a home apiaiy, and is conductedas such—alwavs in harmonv vnih its sur-
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