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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1 



feet into a trough or tank. When once ele- 

 vated, the water will seek its level to a high- 

 er elevation than the regular irrigating- 

 ditch, and it is thus made available for 

 land that can not be irrigated by the ordi- 

 nary method of laterals. Well, just in the 

 rear of the business blocks was one of 

 these irrigating -wheels — what they call 

 them I do not know. It might be consider- 

 ed an old-fashioned undershot water-wheel, 

 consisting of a circular framework mounted 

 on a shaft. Around this framework are 

 troughs or buckets. The current of the 

 stream or irrigating-ditch is just sufficient 

 and no more to cause this wheel to revolve 

 at a slow rate of speed. As the current 

 catches the troughs it causes the wheel to 

 revolve, bringing up buckets of water, 

 which, when they reach a certain elevation, 

 overflow into the above-mentioned trough. 

 The little instantaneous kodak picture 



A SIMPLE PLAN FOR ELEVATING A SMALL AMOUNT OF WA 

 TER FOR IRRIGATING. 



mills are not used for elevating water. 

 They are to some extent; but an ordinary 

 windmill will take care of but a very small 

 amount of land, and only at irregular inter- 

 vals; and where the wind is very high, as 

 it is at times, the cost of maintaining the 

 mill is much greater than maintaining a 

 rudely constructed water-wheel like the one 

 shown in the illustration. 



THE FUTURE OF IDAHO. 



As I took the train from Nampaon my re- 

 turn I came away fully convinced that Ida- 

 ho, which seems so far away to a tender- 

 foot of the East, is bound to be one of the 

 great productive States of the future. If I 

 desired a climate like that of Northern 

 Ohio, Illinois, New York, or Pennsylvania, 

 without their overplus of moisture, and if I 

 were seeking more room — i. e., more land, 

 and desired to go West, I do not know of 

 any place where I would rather go than 

 Idaho. But do not misun- 

 derstand me. There are 

 thousands and thousands of 

 acres of desert — the home of 

 the sage brush and the ever 

 present jack- rabbit — land 

 which, to the superficial ob- 

 server, appears to be utterly 

 worthless; and it is worth- 

 less until by some means 

 water, the one thing lack- 

 ing, is brought on to it. 

 Land remote from the moun- 

 tains or far from a natural 

 stream will probably be al- 

 waj's worthless. But some 

 of this great desert country 

 that can be reached by wa- 

 ter is bound to be in time 

 some of the richest and most 

 productive in the world. It 

 remains for old father Time 

 and the genius of man to 

 make it blossom into fruit- 

 fulness. 



shown herewith will illustrate the princi- 

 ple. Just opposite this machine there was 

 a lawn on high ground; and the trough, be- 

 ing high enough, the water was forced 

 through a pipe across the road on to the el- 

 evation on the other side. 



All through the irrigating regions I found 

 these wheels, and to me they were always 

 objects of interest. One such wheel will 

 take care of a garden-patch of several 

 acres. The amount of water handled, and 

 the height to which it is to be elevated, de- 

 pend entirely on the swiftness of the cur- 

 rent in the ditch. In this case the current 

 was so slow as to be almost imperceptible; 

 and the wheel itself was just barely keep- 

 ing in motion; and yet here it was going on 

 day after day, "working for nothing and 

 boarding itself. " There was no engineer, 

 no coal-pile, no fire, nothing but the ma- 

 chine itself, which, when started, never 

 ceases so long as the water in the ditch 

 keeps up its flow. 



The question may be asked why wind- 



UTAH AS A BEE COUNTKY ; OGDEN CANYON 

 A GREAT ELECTRIC-POWER PLANT. 



While we are occupied with these reflec- 

 tions we are on the way to Utah. Now, al- 

 most before we know it we reach Ogden, 

 one of the great railroad centers of the 

 West. W^e step oft' the train and see in- 

 deed a modern city with all its equipment 

 and paraphernalia. The streets are wide 

 and paved, and every thing in the city be- 

 tokens stir and business. We make our 

 way to the Valley Bee Farm Co., and find 

 it represented by Mr. C. W. Frost, who is 

 not only the local supply-dealer but a bee- 

 keeper who owns and operates two or three 

 bee-yards. Mr. Frost had been associated 

 with Mr. Smalley, and subsequently I had 

 the pleasure of a wonderfully bracing drive 

 with them up the Ogden Canyon. 



It seemed all along my trip that each 

 time I stopped I was presented with the 

 most beautiful scenery in the world; and 

 each time I felt I had never seen any thing 

 like it before. The Rockies of Colorado, 



