GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Cutting sweet clover with a Iniuler preparatory to tlira.sliiiig 



apple is born. 1 liave sprayed apples two 

 Aveeks after the petals had fallen that were 

 given the cliister-bud spray, and no differ- 

 ence was noted in the percentage of wormy 

 fruit from trees that were sprayed when 

 two-thirds of the petals had fallen. If an 

 orchardist can afford to spray and kill one- 

 third of the bloom, and then have more 

 fruit left than the tree can mature, wliy all 

 this haste in applying this spray? His 

 statement doesn't bear weight. It would 

 be just as well to let the worm.s have this 

 extra one-third which will drop olf, avoid 



killing tlie bees, and save all this ripping 

 around, trying to get the calyx cup full of 

 poison before it closes. The fruit-grower 

 should learn to " make haste slowly," and 

 give more thought to just why certain oper- 

 ations are necessary instead of following 

 blindly some set rule. In my opinion the 

 cluster-bud spray, or the spray just before 

 the blossoms burst, is worth far more in the 

 control of codling moth and scab than any 

 subsequent spray that can be applied. 

 Washing-ton, Ind. 



TWELVE HUNDRED ACMES OF SWEET CLOVER 



BY K. E. HAWKINS 



Over 1200 acres of sweet clover within a 

 few miles along one road is the way Illinois 

 farmers are responding to the work of the 

 university and beekeepers here, who are 

 spreading the good news around as to the 

 value of sweet clover. This field, for it is 

 nearly all in one field, is owned by W. P. 

 Graham, Rochelle, Illinois; and during the 

 past season county agricultural advisers 

 from all over the stale liave organized auto 

 trips to Rochelle to allow tlie farmers of 

 Illinois to see what (traliam is doing with 

 sweet clover. 



Here yields of as high as ten bushels of 

 seed to the acre have been known. Here the 

 clover pastures three head of cattle to the 

 acre instead of the usual " head to the acre " 

 of the Illinois farmer. Used for pasture, 

 raised for seed, cut for silage, and planted 

 to tone up the soil, clover has come into its 

 own in this portion of the Prairie State. 



Togetlier with dozens of other farmers 

 from this county I went to Rochelle this 

 sunnner with our county soil adviser just to 

 see these 1200 acres of clover to make sure 

 it was a reality. A few years ago the av- 



