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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 19, 1901. 



clover, which bloomed well into September, 

 there was nothing left to wish for. 1 find 

 that cattle and horses will eat sweet clover 

 greedily where pasturage is scarce, b(.)th as 

 pasture and as hay. I made one experiment 

 that satisfied me that it is all right. A few 

 good-sized armfuls of sweet clover had been 

 cut and allowed to lie on the ground about 

 three days. I picked it up and threw it to a 

 neighbor's cows. I then got a dish of water 

 and put a handful of salt into it, then sprin- 

 klea ibe clover with the salted water. Those 

 cows, with pasture all around them, devoured 

 the sweet clover (it had stood from 4 to (J 

 feet high before cutting, with stalks half an 

 inch thick) just as greedily as the finest hay. 

 Yet I have seen sweet clover in a field, with 

 catile running at liberty, stand unmolested, 

 and attain a growth of six feet, while in a 

 neighboring field it was eaten to the ground, 

 scarcely getting a chance to blossom and seed. 



For myself, I think the American Bee Jour- 

 nal did a great kindness in introducing this 

 yellow sweet clover to the notice of bee-keep- 

 ers. 



I would like to know if any one has made 

 an extended trial with sainfoin, esparcette, 

 or holy hay (it bears all three names), Mr. 

 Dadant mentions it in one of his contribu- 

 tions to the American Bee Journal as being 

 quite productive of honey in France. I tried 

 it last year; it came up nicely, and the 

 young clover plants looked like little 

 Ijranches of the black locust with their leaves 



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