THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



157 



Now. it may happen that, where the 

 clover is not in the best condition now. 

 conditions will be good for a honey flow; 

 and where conditions are most favorable 

 now for a lack of or from too much 

 moisture, it may cut the honey flow short, 

 but taking- conditions as a whole, to have 

 clover in a normal condition Nov. 1 is 

 five points out of ten in securing a honey 

 flow. 



In speaking of a normal condition for 

 white clover, there are two conditions 

 where clover is in a normal condition, 

 one which occurs but about one year in 

 five. It occurred in my locality 



in my 17 years of bee keeping as 

 follows: 1897, 1902. 1906 and 1910. 

 At Dr. Miller's it occurred 1897. 190S, 

 1 90S and 1910. Now, as it will be two 

 or three years before this condition can 

 occur again it makes it for the two 

 locations about one year in five as stated 

 above. This condition is a crop of white 

 clover, the greater part of which has 

 started from the seed the year previous, 

 and has covered the ground thoroughly 

 with plants that are in the best condition 

 that it is possible to put them in. These 

 are the plants that, under normal con- 

 dition, in the best of the white clover 

 belt, will yield honey for three months. 

 The other condition, which is also a 

 normal one, but which at Dr. Miller's, or, 

 in fact, all the best of the white clover 

 belt, will not produce under the same 

 climatic conditions more than half as 

 much honey as the condition first 

 mentioned. It is where these plants 

 started from the seed in 1909, and have 

 developed a greater part of their blossoms 

 in 1910. Then these plants set new 

 plants from their runners, and these new 

 plants set new embryo blossoms that 

 blossom next year, but the bloom period 

 being about half as long the second year 

 as the first. This will continue for a 

 year or two. then they fall down fro n 

 overcrowding or drouth. In my locality 

 clover never fails from overcrowding. As 

 I am on the extreme southern side of the 

 white clover belt our soil is not as strong 

 nor as well adapted to white clover as it 

 is north. There is no combination of 

 circumstances in my locality that will 

 make white clover yield honey later than 

 July 10, while in the best of the clover 

 belt it will yield honey for three months 

 or more. 



It will be noticed that a good growth 

 of young plants on a certain year does 

 not absolutely insure a crop the suc- 

 ceedidg year; that is, unfavorable 

 weather way prevent the secretion of a 



crop of honey, even though the plants 

 made a good growth the previous year; 

 but, if a drouth prevents the growth of 

 the plants in the first place, then there 

 are no plants, and, consequently, no 

 honey. 



QUEENS 



Red Clover and 

 Italian. Let me 

 book your orders 

 now. Untested, 

 75 cents; tested, 

 $1.00. Ready 

 April 15th. Circular free. 



G. ROUTZAHN. BiglerviUe. Pa. 



Caucasians, Carnlolans, 



Banats, Cyprians. 



Select untested queens $1.00 each, five for 

 84.00. Imported breeding queens, 85.00 to 

 86.00. Send to original importer who has spent 

 13 years in foreign countries investigating these 

 and other races of bees. 

 Frank Benton, Box 17, Washington D. C. 



DO YOU CARE 



Where you buy your Queens? You certainly do. 

 Send a postal for prices of the two best strains of 

 their kind on this Continent, Italian and Caucasian. 

 A. D. D. WOOD, Box 61, Lansing, Mich. 



5-10-tf 



Bees For Ss\le 



I didn't intend to sell any bees this spring. In- 

 stead. 1 expected to buy more. 1 probably shall 

 buy some any way— get them of farmers, and trans- 

 fer and Italianize. Every spring, for several 

 years. 1 have sold bees, hence, inquires come every 

 day or two asking if 1 will sell any this spiing. So 

 far, I have said "no." There is only one thing 

 that would induce me to sell, and that would be 

 the price. The bees have wintered exceedingly 

 well, have plenty of stores, and have started a lot 

 of brood. The colonies are unusually strong; and, 

 as 1 stood looking at them the other day, flying so 

 merrily, and filling the air with their joyful hum, 

 the thought came to me, if a man should come 

 along and say, "Hutchinson, 1 11 give you $400 for 

 the lot," i40 colonies) 1 would be tempted to take 

 it; and yet 1 feel sure that they would bring me in 

 that much honey, and 1 w.uld have the bees left. 

 Honestly. 1 would not care to sell a colony for less 

 than 81 0.00. If any one cares to pay that much, 

 I'll let a colony go. 



The bees are pure Italian, of the Moore strain; 

 the hives new, ten-frame Langstroth; the combs 

 built on wired foundation. There are plenty of 

 bees, brood and stores. 1 can thmk of nothing that 

 would make colonies more desirable. Safe ar- 

 rival in perfect condition guaranteed. 



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