The comb is light colored and the strong "beeswax" taste so common to eastern honey, is entirely absent. One hundred and fifty pounds of hone}- is not an unusual output for one hive. In a single season, besides swarming twice and laying up an ample supply for their use, one hive has furnished one hundred and thirty-four pounds of marketable hone}-. Many farmers have twenty-five or more swarms and a few have hives running up around the two hundred mark.

Frank Durnell, living near Bayard, had from one hundred to two hundred hives a recent year. As each hive contains about 22,000 bees, Mr. Durnell's army of industrious workers numbered millions. He produced about eighteen gallons of strained honey annually from the larger hives. One year from seventy-five hives he produced 5,400 quarts of strained honey, or seventytwo quarts per hive. In addition one hundred hives of bees in the spring under normal conditions should produce two hundred new colonies, although scientific handling will control that to some extent.

Alfalfa

Alfalfa is to the irrigated Morrill county what the cocoanut palm is to the tropics -- food and drink and raiment. There are crops paying more to the acre, there are crops requiring less labor, there are crops requiring less time to give return, but there is net another crop that will stand by the farmer year in and year out, giving him compound interest on the labor invested, and returning the soil doubly enriched like alfalfa. Alfalfa is sowed either spring or fall at the rate of twelve to fifteen pounds to the acre.