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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15 



FIG. 4. — THE WAV ALFALFA HAY IS STACKED ON 1000 AND 5000 ACRE FARMS IN THE WEST. 



ing-cases, some 20 tons, ready to be market- 

 ed. Each can and every case has a large 

 label thereon, informing the buyer that it 

 is " Pure Alfalfa Honey, gathered by bees, 

 and the same extracted by machinery," 

 and produced in Lovelocks, Nevada, by 

 Thorne & Ercanbrack. 



The Daisy barrow, seen in the picture, 

 has been in use two years, and has wheel- 

 ed and rewheeled honey to the amount of 

 280,000 pounds, and is good for ten times 

 the service it has alread}' seen. 



Another picture* shows Thorne & Ercan- 

 brack at their apiary home, a shed made 

 bee-tight, of rough boards, 10X15 feet. 

 For four months our stove is a coal-oil burn- 

 er; our chairs, bee-hives; our sofa, a wheel- 

 barrow; and our beds, hammocks swung to 

 free us from bedbugs and poisonous insects. 

 The thermometer reaches nearly 100° each 

 summer day; but our nights are invariably 

 cool, and blankets are alwaj's necessary. 



* This was too poor to reproduce by half-tone, and 

 hence is not shown. — Kd. 



FIG. 5. — A LOAD OF TWO HUNDRED TRN-GALLON CASES ENTERING THE RODGKKS BARN 



SHOWN IN FIG. 6. 



