beefarm

plural beefarms

1. alternativerareAlternative spelling of bee farm.

   Honey Yield at the Govt. Beefarm Nagrota 1936–42.

   1943, Rural India, volume 6, page 254

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   Beefarm Sites and Ranges, 25. […] Ask questions in next A.B.K. for a remedy for prickled blood. A number of beefarms in Victoria are suffering from it this year.

   1915, The Australasian Beekeeper, Pender Bros., pages 84, 156

   Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum. A bee-range license may be secured on payment of one halfpenny for every [a]cre of crown land within a mile of the beefarm; and all suitable timber, [e]ven on land held under a grazing lease or license, may, for the purpose of beefarms, be protected from destruction on any area.

   1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917

   Such a man is W. C. Greenleaf of Muir, Michigan. He runs a dairy and beefarm.

   1928, Modern Beekeeping, page 215

   These are popular in Scotland and the north and as the brood-boxes take 15 frames they are a useful large hive, but we shall not keep those. They were brought in from a Wiltshire beefarm which was taken over and they will be disposed of when convenient.

   1947, South African Bee Journal, page 18

   But, my object has always been to own a big commercial beefarm and to become a large scale honey-producer.

   1949, Proceedings, All India Bee-keepers' Association, page 11