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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 29, 1903. 



a place for everything', and everything 

 is in it. The covers are always put on 

 square and true. Reader, in which 

 class do you belong? — Bee-Keepers' 

 Review. 



Stores Necessary for Wintering. 



We are constantly asked the question, 

 " How many pounds of stores are neces- 

 sary for wintering?" A good deal 

 depends on the strength of the colony, 

 and very much on whether it is to be 

 wintered outdoors or indoors. The 

 average outdoor colony in this latitude 

 requires anywhere from 20 to 25 

 pounds ; for indoors, from 15 to 18 

 pounds will make a safe allowance. 

 The indoor colony may not consume 

 during its actual confinement, more 

 than 4 or 5 pounds, while the outdoor 

 colony, during the same period, may 

 not require more than 10 pounds. If 

 this is the case, why should not every 

 one vpinter indoors ? Because it is not 

 positively proven yet that the extra 

 amount of stores consumed outdoors 

 does tiot give a more vigorous colony 

 in the spring. — Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture. _ 



Alfa\fa and Sweet Clover. 



Many intelligent farmers prize red 

 clover highly on account of its ability 

 to gather nitrogen from the atmos- 

 phere, and they are slowly learning the 

 values of other clovers as well. An 

 important point to know, is the fact 

 that for the success of any one of the 

 clover family, including sweet clover, 

 red clover, and alfalfa, there must be 

 in the soil the bacteria that belong to 

 that one plant, and there is hope that 

 when the soil of the Kast becomes in- 

 oculated with the bacteria of alfalfa, it 

 may succeed just as well in the East as 

 in the West. The following is from 

 J. E. Johnson, of Knox Co., 111., in the 

 American Bee-Keeper : 



Alfalfa has been tried in Illinois for 

 many years by different ones but with- 

 out success until Prof. Hopkins began 

 growing it on infected soil, where he 

 • has found it to do well, producing as 

 high as lO'z tons per acre in a single 

 season. Prof. Hopkins, of the Illinois 

 Experiment Station, has, this year, 

 sent infected soil to something like 200 

 farmers in Illinois for alfalfa growing, 

 so Illinois bids fair to become an al- 

 falfa-growing State. 



Now, one thing more. Of all the 

 bacteria that inhabit the soil and cause 

 the clover to live from the nitrogen of 

 the air, sweet clover is probably the 

 most powerful of all, which shows 

 plainly for itself, as it will thrive and 

 produce both seed and honey in abun- 

 dance on soil so poor that the worst 

 weeds will not grow at all, and even on 

 alkali land, that is poison to nearly all 

 other vegatation. 



Why is this? Simply that sweet 

 clover, when aided by its own bacteria, 

 lives almost entirely from the nitrogen 

 of the air (of course, getting a small 

 amount of phosphates, etc., from the 

 soil). Not only so, but these nitrogen- 

 gathering bacteria are constantly and 

 silently gathering nitrogen — the most 

 precious element to plant-life — and 

 placing it in the soil. 



One sweet clover plant will furnish 



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a home in its tubercles for a thousand 

 million bacteria, or even more. Now, 

 in the far East are old farms which 

 have become so deficient in nitrogen 

 that they are considered worn out or 

 worthless, and have been abandoned, 

 notwithstanding these farms contain 

 the other elements in abundance, or 

 could be so with slight cost, as the 

 other elements are cheap in price. 



If sweet clover were sown on these 

 same farms they could be made valu- 

 able and rich almost without cost. In- 

 fected soil would probably have to be 

 also sown to get quick results, but 

 when once set thickly to sweet clover, 

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