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"ref": "1915, The Australasian Beekeeper, Pender Bros., pages 84, 156:",
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"ref": "1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1928, Modern Beekeeping, page 215:",
"text": "Such a man is W. C. Greenleaf of Muir, Michigan. He runs a dairy and beefarm.",
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"ref": "1943, Rural India, volume 6, page 254:",
"text": "Honey Yield at the Govt. Beefarm Nagrota 1936–42.",
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"ref": "1947, South African Bee Journal, page 18:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1949, Proceedings, All India Bee-keepers' Association, page 11:",
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"ref": "1976, Scottish Beekeeper, Scottish Beekeepers' Association, Practical Experience and Help on Beefarms Through an International Youth Exchange Programme / by kare bjornstol, page 47:",
"text": "[…] and those who want to stay to work for a few months on a beefarm abroad. (Please state which country you are interested in.)",
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"ref": "1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27:",
"text": "The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return",
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"ref": "2013 July 29, Christopher Redmond, “The Present”, in Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady, MX Publishing, Limited, →ISBN:",
"text": "But shortly after the pair had moved into the small cottage and set up the beefarm, a woman with eyes as blue as Wedgwood - and spry for an older woman - joined them.",
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},
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