. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. I'niL tsElL-KEKPERS REVlJiJvy, HVA wlij is uow depeadinif ou the sale of houey almost entirely for present support. His apiary is in a yood location williin the cor- porate limits of the city of Minneapolis. He has a crop of 5,000 pounds of extracted houey. He writes " I am very busy trjiny to sell the honey. I have rented a room on avenue and have a man to tend it when I am out peddling, but the sales in both ways do not average more than lour dollars a day ; the people have no money as a rule and cannot buy. I could ouly make fair wages if the hon
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. I'niL tsElL-KEKPERS REVlJiJvy, HVA wlij is uow depeadinif ou the sale of houey almost entirely for present support. His apiary is in a yood location williin the cor- porate limits of the city of Minneapolis. He has a crop of 5,000 pounds of extracted houey. He writes " I am very busy trjiny to sell the honey. I have rented a room on avenue and have a man to tend it when I am out peddling, but the sales in both ways do not average more than lour dollars a day ; the people have no money as a rule and cannot buy. I could ouly make fair wages if the honey were given me. " Now friends I have been for several years, telling you two things, and I want you when you read this to again read my o^)ening article in the Review for December 1804. The two points to which I wish to call your attention are, first, that bee-keeping nlone is not a safe basis to support a family, and, second, we must turn our attention from the great cities to our rural home markets to find sale for our honey. The gentleman I have quot- ed from is a good salesman and is in a city where twenty-five years ago he could by his present effort have sold one hundred dollars worth a day. My honey crop is not more than one-fourth of a crop, but I easily sold it at fifteen cents a pound to special customers that I have been making for sev- eral years. There are no freight charges to pay out of this, nor commissions to dispute about ; I have all there is in it, and, besides, I have the crop from my half acre and shall not be pinched for food or raiment. The }'^i acre farm was ouly opened up this year and has not yielded nearly so much as I shall expect next season when I hope to have control of more water, but this year I raised Ijo bushels of the nicest potatoes, more fine hubbard squashes than any two families can consume, ?> bushels of nice beans, 1 bushel of peas, 10 bushels of sweet corn, ;5 bushels of tomatoes, 3 dozen water melons, many vegetable oysters
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