CLOTEB- 



CJJOVZR- 



ver-huller made espe- 



the p^ - 

 it to ; 



fenee-coiivcri- 

 1t the seed of 



some sections. leaTing 



1 only ia vacant lots. 



ies. Unfortonate" 



can not be saved. 



RED CLOTEB < TrifoUmm praUnse 



and in the central and eastern States it s. — ■, -' 

 holds first honors in ^ite of the fact that cm.- 



intensive agtienftrae has crowded it out of p^j^yzy^, (jB MAMMOTH CLOTEB. 

 ^ This is the largest kind of red clover 



known, as its name indicates: and it does. 

 manj seasons, furnish a very large amount 

 <rf honey. As a role, however, like the red 

 clover mentioDed above, it is seldom visited 

 by the aMnmon bees: but nearly every 

 season it is Tisited more or less by Italians : 

 whidi some seasons (where very large fields 

 are nearby) store remaitaWy large amoonts 

 of very toe honey from this one source 

 alone. In bloom prineipaUy throogboiit the 

 months of Augost and September, it is a 

 very important hoi»ey-plant. Althon^ the 

 hay is hardly equal to that from common 

 red clover, it is. perhaps, the best forage - 

 plant known to plow tmder. Once well 

 started rt will grow on almost any soil : and 

 let a good stand be secnred and plowed rai- 

 der, the groond gets in condition to fnnri^ 

 a fair oop of almost any thing. 

 AJ^SIKS CLOTEB. 

 This was fonneily 5appc«5ed to be a hy- 

 iHid. since in appeazanee it is so nearly 

 intermediate between tiie while and red 

 clovers: hence its name^ Tixj^MMm kgbiidmm. 

 j^rw It is now known to be a distinet 

 species. TThile it yields fully as miidi hon^ 

 as the red. the petoOs are so short that bees 

 findnodifaenltyinieadiing it. If yon im- 

 agine a large head d white clover, with ex- 

 tremities at the petals tipped a beautiful 

 pink— equal in beantv to a dahlia if *^^^ 

 were not so ecmimon— you win have a ' rry 

 good idea <tf the alake. The leaf is much 

 like that <rf oiher doreis- ettept tiiat. in 

 »lar. it B a sc*t dean bii^ green, without 

 the spots of down that are seal on the white 

 and red cioveis. ' 



If alake dover eameintoWooiBatasea- 

 »>n when bees could get little else, as boA- 

 wheat doe. we w.>uld i^aee it, instead of 

 Ime^wheat, first on the Hrt of plants for ar- 

 tlfidal pastuz^e.* Where white dorer does 

 not grow ^Mmtaneoo^. aMke is tmdoobt- 

 edly.ahi»d<tf e^ery tiriig dse now known. 

 It not only pioduees honey in large quanti- 

 ties, but the quality ^ not excelled by any 

 thing known in the wotW. It is true, many 

 people vf^^ hasBwood. m o unt a in sage, and 

 otfa0- aromaiie fiavoo. at first taste ; tratwe 



•If ^ake is eaLor ere* passared o*. jaa tefore 



wtase etorer is go»e,«a«d grs« « e«J» « ttW^rJ^w^fT 

 iB9k wkea -mt maSt meeA fs. One o« tmr M^ttlmt, 



C0a0l03f T. TTf CXOVEB. 



The common red clover yields toney larse- 

 'vson»e seasons, but not so generally as d«j^s 

 .be white, nor do the bees woik on it for as 

 :.?ng a i-eriod- While working on red dover 

 be*s bring in small loads of a peecHar dark- 

 rr^n I --Den. By observing this we can 

 - - :eE when they are galliering red- 

 _- 1 ney. Italians cften do finely on 

 -_ ^ "^r. while the common black b«s 

 =o much as notiee it. The 

 - mndi like that of alsike. 

 " : the safest way 

 -.:«»*e good farm- 

 er ^ yji^ beeanse differ- 

 pn^ ghtly different treat- 

 ment. The same wiii aptiy to saving the 

 seed, which can hardly be done profitably 



