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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Bless her, she shan't go the workhouse!" declared Diana, kissing the small fist that clung round her finger. There was a wild idea among the girls that the foundling might be kept as a "school baby". "We're taught gardening, and poultry-keeping, and bee-keeping," said Wendy quite seriously, "so why not the care of children?
By ingenuity a good deal of the lifting can be avoided. The advantages of bee-keeping are a healthful, outdoor occupation which takes one's mind off real or imaginary worries, with a certainty of small profit in spite of set-backs and large profits in favourable seasons. Bee-keeping is a good occupation for the woman who is suited to it, but not every woman can be a successful bee-farmer.
Eventually the crate was used as a seed bed and a fine crop of jackfruit seedlings was raised in the box. At the end of February, I was eager and ready to set out again. Although some contacts for the study of bee-keeping had been made by my dad, I was personally not very much interested in the subject. Crocs, snakes and the wild had gripped me and I was longing to get back to the Croc Bank.
I made a good many mistakes, of course, for there is more than meets the eye in remunerative gardening, chicken farming, and bee-keeping, as there is in most human occupations which appear delusively simple.
Virgil's father was a small freeholder in Andes, who farmed his own land, practised forestry and bee-keeping, and gradually accumulated a sufficient competence to enable him to give his son an only child, it would appear, of this marriage the best education that the times could provide.
They are a different order utterly from hen-men, bee-keeping and chicken-raising being respectively the poetry and prose of country life, though there are some things to be said for the hen, deficient as the henyard is in euphony, rhythm, and tune.
At one moment he was hymning the raptures of bee-keeping, at another letting off epigrams on the fascinating subject of hay-making. "Ah! dear boy," she heard him saying to the ingenuous Jimmy, "cling to your youth! Cling to the haytime of your life, ere the fields are bare, and all the emotions are stacked away for fear of the rain. There is nothing like rose-pure youth, Jimmy.
"Dad," said Tristram, "you made me promise once never to run a man through unless he molested me in the midst of a peaceful pursuit." "Well?" "It appears to me that bee-keeping is a peaceful pursuit." "Decidedly." "And that this fellow is going to molest me." "It looks like it." "Then I may run him through?" "Say rather that you must." "Thank you, dad.
A man unsuccessful in everything else hears the interesting story of the profits and comforts of bee-keeping, and concludes to try it; he buys a few colonies, or gets them, from some overstocked ranch on shares, takes them back to the foot of some cañon, where the pasturage is fresh, squats on the land, with, or without, the permission of the owner, sets up his hives, makes a box-cabin for himself, scarcely bigger than a bee-hive, and awaits his fortune.
Bee-keeping, especially in eastern Siberia, is an important industry which has been followed from remotest ages. The annual yield of honey is estimated to be upward of three million pounds. The camel is usually associated with the hot desert regions of the Sahara and Arabia, yet in Siberia immense numbers of camels are used.
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