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Future of Sweet Clover. 



It has pained me to see the way in which 

 many of the agricultural papers have talked 

 about sweet clover, especially in answering 

 inquiries. Here is something from the Coun- 

 try Gentleman, however, from John Cham- 

 irerlain, that is a fair recognition of its true 

 value: 



" I never see a swampy growth of sweet 

 clover that a man could fairly get lost in, as 

 he would in a Southern canebrake, without 

 wondering why some one has not taken it up 

 and made it a leader in hay-producing plants. 

 As we see it, only one crop is produced; but 

 where it happens to be cut down before seed- 

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 woody, it springs up again at once and covers 

 the ground with the most succulent growth 

 imaginable, and always quite indifferent to 

 dry or wet weather. Some day we shall ap- 

 preciate sweet clover." 



The writer of the above item does not say 

 outright that it will be eaten with the great- 

 est avidity by almost all kinds of stock when 

 they once create an appetite for it, but he 

 seems to take it for granted it is of value. 

 None of the clovers can be classed as noxious 

 weeds. Of course, even rank red clover in a 

 strawberry patch might be called a weed; and 

 sweet clover has perhaps created the impres- 

 sion that it is a weed because it grows luxuri- 

 antly, even on the hardest ground by the road- 

 side, where red clover would not grow at all. 

 It is really one of the hardiest and most val 

 uable of the clovers.— A. I. Root, in Glean 

 ings in Bee-Culture, 



Tiering=Up Supers. 



Tiering up by adding the new super above 

 the old one has been discussed of late, in a 

 way that shows misconception of the idea. It 

 IS not always to put the new super on top, no 

 matter how many supers are under, but 

 always to have the new super just over the 

 one that is approaching completion— not over 

 the one that is just receiving the finishing 

 touches. The latter should always be on top 

 If It would thus receive less attention than it 

 should, there are too many supers on the hive. 

 In other words, a super should be nearly com- 

 pleted when next to the lirood-chamber, but 

 when that point is reached, should change 

 places with the new super, which has been 

 added som e time previously on top. 



Many times this season I noticed that put- 

 ting the new super next the frames too soon 

 resulted in neglect of the outside sections of 

 the super approaching completion, to work 

 the center sections of the uew super. The 

 How was too slow for the bees to work will- 

 ingly at the sides when they had plenty of 

 room given directly overhead and next to the 

 frames. Putting the new super above the old 

 one for a time corrected this tendency The 

 center sections of the new one would be 

 worked some, but not at the expense of the 

 old super, as happened by the plan of tiering 

 underneath.— F. L. Tuo.mi'son, in the Pro- 

 gressive Bee-Keeper ,■ — | — ; 



Errors jn the Nationar Report. 



^Refeiring tohistalk given at the Los An- 

 geles convention, Mr. A. l^ Root makes these 

 corrections injlhisi paper, "hich^we' are glad 

 to reprint: 



On page 694, Mr. Samuel Wagner is cred- 

 ited with making the first machine with 

 rollers for making comb foundation. Instead 

 of giving Wagner the credit it should have 

 been \\ as!,buni. Mr. Alva Washburn of 

 Medina, Ohio, made the fiitt pair of rolls the 

 world ever saw, for rolliii- out comb founda- 

 tion. He did' this while working for me by 

 the day ; but, notwithstanding, the credit is 

 due to him more than lu anybody else for 

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