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DIFFERENT FORMS OF PAPER MILK-BOTTLES WHICH MIGHT BE IMPROVED SO AS TO BE USED FOR HONEY. 



ly in the milk business, and, of course, are given 

 away with the milk. I believe they could be 

 used for honey just as well. 



The bottles are made of strong spruce paper, 

 glued and paraffined. They would be especially 

 useful in retailing honey from house to house, or 

 for holding candied honey, as it could be run 

 into these bottles before it is hard. The cover 

 could be left so as to be easily removed, so that 

 the honey might be tested if desired. The illus- 

 tration shows several forms of these packages. 



While these bottles might not be very valuable 

 for shipping honey, I feel sure that they could 

 be improved so as to be practical. Posiibly 

 they would have to be made thicker for honey 

 than for milk. The ends should be put togeth- 

 er with glue, and only the inside paraffined, 

 while the outside should be covered with a nice- 

 ly printed label. In the end the cost might 

 amount to a cent each; but even this would be 

 much cheaper than tin. 



Middlebury, Vt. 



[We believe this paper milk-package is a good 

 thing. There is no reason why it should not be 

 used very largely by those who do a retail busi- 

 ness in extracted honey. It is by far the cheap- 

 est self-sealing package on the market; and, 

 what is more, it can be obtained almost any- 

 where. Apply to your milk-dealer. — Ed.] 



CLOVER -HONEY PR OSPECTS 

 NORTHERN OHIO FOR 1909. 



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BY J. E. HAND. 



White clover is practically a surface feeder ex- 

 cept the original plant, which dies after it blos- 

 soms the second year. The runners do not have 

 tap-roots, and are, therefore, unable to survive a 

 very severe drouth. On the other hand, red clo- 

 ver, after it once gets firmly rooted, is seldom 

 killed except by heaving out of the ground by 



the action of frost, which is chiefly confined to 

 low ground and heavy clay soil. However, new 

 seedings of all the clovers are frequently killed 

 by a severe drouth early in the season before the 

 roots have become thoroughly established. While 

 the drouth was very severe in this section, and 

 continued well into November, it did not begin 

 in earnest until August. 



I have just been over our nine-acre field of new 

 alsike and red-clover seeding for the second 

 time since these articles began to appear. We 

 have a fine stand of clover, with the exception of 

 a few of the highest places. That white clover 

 is severely injured in pastures and high places is 

 very evident. However, in meadows, along 

 roadsides, and in out-of-the way places, where 

 the plants vsere protected by overlapping foliage, 

 there is enough white clover in sight in my loca- 

 tion, with the splendid outlook for alsike and red 

 clover, to give us an average crop in 1909, espe- 

 cially if we get a lift from basswood, as we gen- 

 erally do. 



The prediction that there will be no clover 

 honey east of the Mississippi has no foundation 

 for its support, and reminds one of some weather 

 prophets who foretell the weather a year in ad- 

 vance. There were local showers here and there, 

 all over the country, and it is quite possible that 

 many bee-keepers may by moving their apiaries 

 a short distance secure a good crop of honey. 



Birmingham, Ohio. 



[Many who have written us seem to feel that 

 white clover, even though it has no tap-root, will 

 stand more drouth than those clovers that have a 

 tap-root and a bunch of rootlets in one spot. The 

 white clovers branch and rebranch, and at every 

 intersection have a bunch of roots. The fact 

 that one plant may have so many sets of roots in 

 different spots is regarded as a protection that the 

 other clovers with only one root or set of roots do 

 not have. For instance. The A. I. Root Co.'s 

 plant is strong because it has so many branches 

 and rootlets. These latter, you know, feed the 

 old plant with constant new life. — Ed.] 



