1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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KIG. b. — BAKN FOK rHIRTF,EN-THOUSAND-AC RE FARM; LARGEST BARN IN NEV \DA. 



Irrigating-'ditches run all around us, and 

 water is abundant for man and bees. Our 

 neighbors are the Piutes, a friendly tribe 

 of Indians, now nearlj' extinct. For ene- 

 mies we have mice, bee-martins, magpies, 

 and foul brood. Ants and moth-millers can 

 not exist here, or do not. The bedbug, tar- 

 antula, and scorpion are more numerous 

 than harmful, while the native rattler once 

 in a while gets in his work and makes the 

 use of liquor a necessity then. This is as 

 things are. 



Fi^. 4 shows how the alfalfa- farmers 

 handle hundreds of tons a day with few 

 hands. Five men can keep five or six teams 

 busy hauling to the stack. The load of hay 

 is lifted at two or three grabs of a huge 



fork, and raised to a height of 40 feet to a 

 stack, and there placed in proper position. 

 These stacks of alfalfa hay are, many of 

 them, 400 feet long One now in place is 

 900 feet long; and when the negative I made 

 of it is printed I intend to send you a copy. 

 These hay-handlers become expert, and 

 command high wages. Three dollars [^a 

 day was paid to some this season. 



Alfalfa hay is in good demand here.*^ It 

 sells in stack, loose, at $5.00 to $6.00 a ton; 

 and as three crops are raised it is a mint 

 to the raisers, for it grows for twelve to fif- 

 teen years without reseeding. It is cut one 

 day, raked the next, and is in the stack in 

 less than a week. 



Figs. 5 and 6 show the largest barn in 



FIG. 8. — A NEAR VIEW OF THE THORN & ERCANBKACK APIAKV, NFAR LOVELOCKS, NEV, 



