. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 519 A Bee-House is just patented by W. G. Rutherford. His description and claim is thus given in his patent: The bee-house shown and described, having a door and provided with a cen- tral passage-way. The vertical cross- partitions secured to the inner faces of the side walls, and dividing the same into sections accessible to the passage- way; the longitudinal horizontal divis- ion-boards secured to the vertical parti- tions, and dividing the spaces between them into hive compartments; the side walls opposite each compartment hav
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 519 A Bee-House is just patented by W. G. Rutherford. His description and claim is thus given in his patent: The bee-house shown and described, having a door and provided with a cen- tral passage-way. The vertical cross- partitions secured to the inner faces of the side walls, and dividing the same into sections accessible to the passage- way; the longitudinal horizontal divis- ion-boards secured to the vertical parti- tions, and dividing the spaces between them into hive compartments; the side walls opposite each compartment having a bee-opening and an alighting-board, the horizontal strips 11, secured to the vertical partitions in each compartment, the brood-frames suspended from the experimenting until his crop exceeded 3,000 tons per annum. During this time, Mr. Walker practically superin- tended his extensive farm, including the construction of ditches and practical irrigation, and harvesting of the plant. He believes that " over at least one-third of the territory of the United States, alfalfa may be grown to so great an advantage that it is doubtful whether any other crop can equal it in productive- ; He describes the process of sow- ing, irrigating, and curing alfalfa. Of the pleasures of farm life, he writes: You who are in the cities, shut up in. W. G. RUTHERFORD'S BEE-HOUSE. strips, and the honey-sections arranged above the brood-frames, and being sup- ported by the same in each compart- ment, substantially as described. Alfalfa is a plant which promises to be one of the great sources of wealth in this country. It is cultivated exten- sively in California, Utah and Colorado. It produces three crops a year, and an extraordinary tonnage per acre. The November Cosmopolitan contains an article by John Brisben Walker, who was for ten years an alfalfa farmer in Colorado, and prominently connected with the introduction of alfalfa into that State, beginning with a few acres and dingy
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