Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 10.—Apiary of Ivar Holtermann. 884 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Fig. 11.—Apiary of Jas. Armstrong, Inspector of Apiaries for a district in Ontario. in his yard, and took a picture of one cor-ner of it which is shown in Fig. 11. Thelocation of the yard made it impossible tosecure any thing like a comprehensive viewof the whole apiary. Mr. Armstrong useseight-frame hives, as will be noticed, and heexpected to get at his extracting tiered up in this way always lookgood to me. There is considerable sweet clover alongthe roadside in certain parts of southernO
Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 10.—Apiary of Ivar Holtermann. 884 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Fig. 11.—Apiary of Jas. Armstrong, Inspector of Apiaries for a district in Ontario. in his yard, and took a picture of one cor-ner of it which is shown in Fig. 11. Thelocation of the yard made it impossible tosecure any thing like a comprehensive viewof the whole apiary. Mr. Armstrong useseight-frame hives, as will be noticed, and heexpected to get at his extracting tiered up in this way always lookgood to me. There is considerable sweet clover alongthe roadside in certain parts of southernOntario; but as yet it is still considered anoxious weed, and the farmers are constant-ly neglecting imj^ortant work to keep thesweet clover along the roadside moweddown. When the experiment stations of somany of our States are publishing bulletinstelling of the value of sweet clover, andwhen the United States Department ofAgriculture has published such a completebulletin telling of the value of sweet cloverto the soil, etc., it seems strange that thereshould still be so many localities
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