Gleanings in bee culture . TION WITH BEES, FRUIT, AND FLOWERS BY DR. EDNA Fig. 1.—Dr. Edna P. plan of luiuliug culuitonfiele foinuUitions. cooking, baking, and candy-making—infact, in any thing that sugar and water areused in. It has greater sweetening powerthan most of the manufactured syrups, and,besides, possesses great medicinal value. As a remunerative occupation for womenit has been my experience that it is extreme-ly profitable, clean, and healthful. Whenbees have been properly cared for duringthe winter and spring, and a proper methodemployed during the summer, a
Gleanings in bee culture . TION WITH BEES, FRUIT, AND FLOWERS BY DR. EDNA Fig. 1.—Dr. Edna P. plan of luiuliug culuitonfiele foinuUitions. cooking, baking, and candy-making—infact, in any thing that sugar and water areused in. It has greater sweetening powerthan most of the manufactured syrups, and,besides, possesses great medicinal value. As a remunerative occupation for womenit has been my experience that it is extreme-ly profitable, clean, and healthful. Whenbees have been properly cared for duringthe winter and spring, and a proper methodemployed during the summer, a singleswarm can produce from 50 to 200 one-pound sections of surplus honey which canalways be sold at good prices. It is a busi-ness that can be carried on with one or twohives or one or two hundred. It can becarried on at home, thus affording a greatopportunity for self-improvement. Thereshould be at least one or two hives of beesin every garden, especially in the rural sec-tions of our country, as the bee is the best. FlQ. 2.—Latticed grapevines for sliade. A woman is mental-ly and physically qual-itied for bee years ofintimate study of wom-en, both in health andin sickness, gives me the foundation forthe above arbitrary statement. Her longyears of training in household detail, herquick perception, enthusiasm, and versatil-ity, all combine to make her an ideal bee-keeper. Often longing for the real thingsof life 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, sel
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