PROFIT FROM BEES
SIDELINE ON THE FARM There are many examples of ingenuity being used by the settlers to develop sidelines from which a satisfactory incomo can be earned, reports the Southland correspondent of The Weekly Nkws. In one district a man with blacksmithing experience secured a property under the Unemployment Board's scheme and combining his work on his own property with, blacksmithing work he has become well established. In another district, a settler with a mechanical turn lias secured a fairly profitable connection in the repairing of cars and tractors from neighbouring farms. One of the most striking examples of successful application of ideas to the tenancy of a five-acre block is provided at Fleming, Waikaka Valley, by Mr George Swanson, who took ovei the small block some three years ago and installed a few colonies of bees. In the first two years ho secure.! a fair amount of outside employment m shear ing, but his colonies of bees have in creased to such »in extent that ho does not anticipate that he will now be abU to spend much time off his property Ho has close on a hundred colonies ol bees, from which an output of about foui' tons of honey can be expected.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22349, 21 February 1936, Page 19
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207PROFIT FROM BEES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22349, 21 February 1936, Page 19
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