(!i.,-:ANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



HIGM=PEE§§UME GAMDENING 



SWEET CLOVER — SOWING IT IN ROWS, AND 

 CULTIVATING IT LIKE CORN. 



We are today, Oct. 4, cutting our corn; 

 and the sweet clover seeded between the rows 

 of corn that I liave several times mentioned 

 is now a thing of beauty. There is not a 

 bare spot in the field, and the clover is 

 almost knee-high. There is one objection to 

 this method; and that is, the corn, as fast 

 as it is cut, must be carried off out of the 

 field or a great lot of the clover will be 

 injured or desti'oyed where the corn was cut 

 and shocked. As our field is rather long 

 and naiTow, the cutters, as they cut the 

 corn, carry it out at the sides and ends. It 

 is somewhat expensive; but I am so anxious 

 to see this field of clover do its best that 

 we are risking the extra expense. Now, 

 here is something queer from Field Sense, 

 published by the Field Seed Co., of Shen- 

 andoah, Iowa : 



SWEET CLOVER IN MONTANA. 



You remember last Fprins: I told you about a man 

 up in Montana, right next to the Canada line, who 

 was growing alfalfa in rows and using 5 ounces of 

 seed to the acre. This is the same man, but this 

 isn't alfalfa. This is sweet clover. He grows it 

 in rows the same way, using loss than 1 lb. of seed 

 per acre, and cultivating it like corn. He grows 

 the alfalfa the same way, but in the pictures he sent 

 me it had fallen down across the rows till you could 

 not tell where the rows were, and it looised like an 

 ordinary flat field of alfalfa. He grows Grimm ex- 

 clusively, and expects to cut his whole 130 acres 

 for seed. 



You will notice from the above that it is 

 a tremendous saving of seed. In our corn- 

 field we used toward 15 lbs. of hulled seed 

 to the acre. I now feel sure that half as 

 much or even less would have done just as 

 well, especially with the new scarified seed, 

 and, in fact, every seed seems to have come 

 up within three or four days. Perhaps if 

 the clover is gTown for feed there is an 

 advantage in thick seeding. My impression 

 is, we get almost as much seed from the 

 sweet-clover plant where put in onW as 

 thick as hills of corn. When it comes to 

 cutting it for hay, no doubt the thick .seed- 

 ing would be better. Who can tell us about 

 this? As the hulled seed is worth now from 

 20 to 25 cts. per lb., taking only one pound 

 in place of 15 would go pretty well toward 

 covering the cost of running the cultivator 

 between the rows. 



SWEET CLOVER FOR BRINGING UP THE CONDI- 

 TION OF THE SOIL, ETC. 



I dip the following from the Alfalfa 

 JotirnnJ : 



On a recent automobile trip the farmers near 

 Bloonjipgtdn, III., visited the large sweet-clover field 



on the Homer Hull farm. Fourteen acres of sweet 

 clover were seeded with oats last year. This was 

 not standing over a foot high. Mr. Hull seeded forty 

 acres of red clover in the oats last year, and failed 

 to get a stand. This seems to be a common result 

 in this vicinity during the past few years, and that 

 is why so much sweet clover has been planted. 

 SMeet clover is being used in the rotation. The 

 lirst crop is cuti and allowed to lie on the ground 

 for fertilizer. The second crop is used for seed 

 production. The straw will be hauled back on the 

 land. It is estimated that the first cutting and the 

 straw will amount to eight tons of manure to the 

 acre, besides the good condition in which the soil is 

 put by the use of this method. Sweet clover seems 

 10 mak<^ a better top and root growth than red clo- 

 VC1-, and the farmers in this vicinity are beginning 

 to think that they can depend on the sweet clover 

 more than the old-fashioned kind. 



Just think of it, friends ! equal to eight 

 Ions of manure to the acre to benefit the 

 land wliile you get a crop of seed besides. 

 Our OAvn experiments would indicate the 

 above as being not far from risht. 



THE DASHEEN BUSIxVESS IN FLORIDA AT THE 

 PRESENT TIME. 



The following Avas sent us without any 

 indication as to what paper it was taken 

 from : 



FLOUR FROM DASHEENS; FLORIDA FINDS A NRW 

 BREAKFAST FOOD. 



Crystal Springs, Fla., Sept. 17. — A manufac- 

 tured products of dasheens is being used here, and 

 perhaps elsewhere, as a breakfast food, and people 

 who have tried it v.'ith the usiial breakfast-food 

 trimmings say that it is about the smoothest article 

 in that line imaginable. Dasheens have a flavor 

 suggesting chestnutK, and the breakfast food manu- 

 factured from dasheens is said to have a delightful 

 nutty flavor that makes friends of the eater right 

 away. 



This information was brought out at a meeting 

 of dasheen-growers for the purpose of considering 

 the advisability of installing a small flour-miil for 

 the manufacture of dasheen flour and other prod- 

 ucts. 



At the meeting a letter was read from Prof. R. A. 

 Young, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United 

 States Department' of Agriculture. Mr. Young was 

 in charge of the daslieen-growing e.xperiments for 

 the agricultural department at Brooksville a few 

 years ago, and has visited Crystal Springs twice in 

 the interests of that industry. 



T1U-: STRIPED SQUASH-BUG ; HOW THEY MAN- 

 AGE WHERE THEY GROW CUCUMBERS FOR 



THE GREAT PICKLE-FACTORIES. 

 If Mr. Root will dust his squash and pickle 

 pl.ints after every rain with tobacco dust and lime, 

 half and half, he will find it a sure remedy for the 

 stn-iped bugs. We grow cucumbers for the Hinze 

 pickle-factory, and we all use the remedy here. 

 Bowling Green, O., Aug. 23. U. E. LOY. 



"^/ery likely the above will answer, or at 

 least help; but when it rains every day, or 

 even every other day, it will not only take 

 quite a little " dust," but keep one busy. 



