1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1051 



MODERN BEE-KEEPINQ IN ARIZONA. 



Honey Production and the Making of Alfalfa Hay 

 on a Large Scale. 



BY C. K. ERCANBRACK. 



I send by this mail some photos of scen- 

 ery taken by myself near my apiarv, now 

 located near Lovelocks, Nevada. Fig's. 1 



exactly alike, and all, of course, self-spac- 

 ing^. These hives are in rows, facing- each 

 other, 4 ft. apart in the row, and the rows 

 8 ft. apart, and are run for extracted hon- 

 ey only. We have no swarms, so the tall 

 trees seen are no detriment to our way of 

 managing-. 



With our frames all alike, and our hives 

 in parallel rows, and but 50 feet from our 

 extracting-shed, one man with his Daisy 



FIG. 1. — THORNE & EKCANBRACK'S APIARY OF 300 COLONIES, NEAR LOVELOCKS, NEV. 



and 8 show the bees of Thorne & Ercanbrack 

 in winter quarters for 1903. The apiary 

 consists of 300 colonies, all in eig^ht-frame 

 Hoffman hives, covers and all just as made 

 by the Root Co. The hives and frames are 



barrow handles all these colonies and their 

 crop. A boy turns the extractor, a four- 

 frame one. 



Fi^. 2. — Here under these tall cotton- 

 wood trees is piled our ten-gallon extract^ 



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FIG. 2. — TWENTY TONS OF ALFALFA HONEY PILED UP READY FOR MARKET. 



