. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAI^ BEE JOURNAL. 597. For the American Bee Journal. Bee-Keepiug in tlie Great Northwest. WM. F. CLARKE. Having just taken a trip into and partially through the region above- named, I propose, while the subject is fresh, to jot down for the American Bee Journal a few impressions of the country, apiculturally considered. My tour extended from 8t. Paul to Winnipeg, Manitoba, thence west- ward, 409 miles to the last rail of the Canada Pacilic Hallway, returning to Winnipeg, thence east to Hawk Lake, about half way to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAI^ BEE JOURNAL. 597. For the American Bee Journal. Bee-Keepiug in tlie Great Northwest. WM. F. CLARKE. Having just taken a trip into and partially through the region above- named, I propose, while the subject is fresh, to jot down for the American Bee Journal a few impressions of the country, apiculturally considered. My tour extended from 8t. Paul to Winnipeg, Manitoba, thence west- ward, 409 miles to the last rail of the Canada Pacilic Hallway, returning to Winnipeg, thence east to Hawk Lake, about half way to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior; again returning to Winnipeg, thence, via Minneapolis to the Jim River Valley, Dakota, and from there to Chicago, where I now write. The Great Northwest I take to comprise the vast tracts of land north and west of St. Paul. At present, and if properly farmed for all time, this region, taken as a whole, may, without impropriety, be considered the world's largest and grandest wheat-field; beginning with the famous lied River Valley in North- ern Minnesota, and stretcliing north- ward to the limit of cereal culture, and westward to the Rocky Moun- tains ; it may, almost without exag- geration, be said to be one mammoth wheat field, the like of which is not to be found on the earth's surface. The only part of this field that can be said to be fully worked, is the before-men- tioned Red River Valley. There I saw a sight that made me open my eyes wider than they were ever stretched before. Wheat on either side of the railway track, from thence apparently to the horizon ; much of it standing, more of it reaped or in course of reap- ing by the wonderful self-binders that convert standing grain into sheaves as if by magic; miles of it in shock; teams busy liauling dry sheaves to the steam threshers that were puffing and buzzing on every hand; men bagging the threshed grain; and, again, more teams hauling to the nearest elevators. Here are the big Bonanza farms, of which we have read an
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