Gleanings in bee culture . FIG. 3.—HIVING A SWAKM IN DANZENBAKEE HlVi.:^. 904 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, July 1. FIG. 1.—APIARY OF M. Jb. IKiiJliLE, MAiWllALL, .MO., SHOW liSG HOW OKASS AND WEEDS WEKEKEPT DOWN BY FOUR SHEEP; HIVES ARE INCLOSED IN TAR-PAPER WINTER CASES. ver honey in New England, or at least thisportion of it, as we seldom get a yield ofany importance from this source, even thoughthe hives boil over with bees of the bestkind. To digress a little from bee-keeping tofarming I will give about what is known inP^nglaud as the four-course shift in agri-culture, which is considered one
Gleanings in bee culture . FIG. 3.—HIVING A SWAKM IN DANZENBAKEE HlVi.:^. 904 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, July 1. FIG. 1.—APIARY OF M. Jb. IKiiJliLE, MAiWllALL, .MO., SHOW liSG HOW OKASS AND WEEDS WEKEKEPT DOWN BY FOUR SHEEP; HIVES ARE INCLOSED IN TAR-PAPER WINTER CASES. ver honey in New England, or at least thisportion of it, as we seldom get a yield ofany importance from this source, even thoughthe hives boil over with bees of the bestkind. To digress a little from bee-keeping tofarming I will give about what is known inP^nglaud as the four-course shift in agri-culture, which is considered one of the mostapproved methods of maintaining the fertil-ity of a moderate to heavy loam (such as wefrequently meet in this pait of New England). 1. White-straw crop—wheat, oats, or bar-ley, seeded in fall with clover. 2. Crop of clover hay; soil to yield two cropsin fall or spring. 3. Crop of roots—mangolds, turnips, orkohlrabis. The turnips may be fed off withsheep in fall, optional with tenant. 4. Fallow (or idleness), to allow land torecuperate. If I remember rightly, the old Mosaic lawprovided tha
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