beefarm

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative, rare)Alternative spelling of bee farm.

   “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.”

   “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.”

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

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

   “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.”