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I loss iiastured in a field of white sweet clover near Delmar, Iowa. 



the association meet next year in conjunc- 

 tion with the fruitgrowers and nurserymen, 

 and use every effort to increase the member- 

 ship. 



The legislature of 1911 appropriated $1000 

 for apiary- inspection work in Tennessee. 

 The past summer this work has been con- 

 ducted in Middle and West Tennessee. The 

 coming summer attention will be directed 

 to East Tennessee. The survey of the bee 

 interests in the State as gathered by the 

 State Entomologist is being revised and 

 greatly augmented. 



Knoxville, Tenn. 



[The Tennessee Association is doing some 

 advanced work along the line of beekeep- 

 ing, and other associations in the country 

 may well afford h> take notice. It is a splen- 

 did plan, in more ways than one, to hold 

 the annual convention with the fruitgrow- 

 ers. From the Secretary, .J. M. Buchanan, 

 we received a report of the election of offi- 

 cers which is as follows: 



President, W. N. .loseph, Nashville; Vice- 

 president, David Wauford, Alexandria; Sec- 

 retary, .1. M. liuchanan, Franklin. 



In a newspaper clii)ping giving a report 

 of the convention we note that Mr. Bu- 

 chanan stated, in his address before the con- 

 vention, that luiroi)ean foul brood exists in 

 Shelby and Robertson counties, and that 

 American foul brood, which is more preva- 

 lent, is found in Davidson, Williamson, 

 Roane, antl Hamilton counties. Other 

 counties under investigation are (iiles, Law- 

 rence, and Montgomery. 



The association has now something over 

 eighty members, between fifty and sixty of 

 which were present. Ttiere are said to be 

 36,000 beekee])ers in Tennessee. The an- 

 nual value of the honey crop in the State is 

 nearly $250,000.— En.] 



HOW TO GET A STAND OF SWEET CLOVER 



BY FRANK COVEBDAIiE 



After reading what Dr. Miller has to say, 

 page 48 of the booklet " The Truth About 

 Sweet Clover," I feared that he had not 

 been reading my articles in the farm pa- 

 pers, for he says he is not able to get a good 

 stand. Now, a great deal depends upon 

 methods used and the conditions of the soil 

 in which the seed is sown. I have made a 

 specialty of investigations along this line, 

 and making exp3riments under every con- 

 ceivable condition; and I have found that 

 it is so easy to get a perfect ^tand that no 

 one need make a failure. It is quite plain 

 to me that neither Dr. Miller's soil nor his 

 neighbor's has any sweet-clover bacteria in 

 it; and, for that reason, many of the sweet- 

 clover i)lants will fail to grow nodules on 

 the roots, but will turn yellow and die. If 

 this same soil had been rich in plant food, 

 everyone of the sweet-clo\er plants would 

 have formed nodules and made a perfect 

 stand of luxuriant clover. 



Nine years ago I sowed a sixty-acre field 

 to white sweet clover, and also a forty-acre 

 field. Although the plants started, not a 

 single one lived until winter, and the whole 

 undertaking was a failure because of the 

 poor and impoverislied condition of the 

 soil. Many others around here lost their 

 seed in the same way. The tables have 

 turned, however, for we are now securing 

 joerfect stands of this legume, as shown by 

 the picture of one of my neiglibor's fields. 

 His hogs enjoy a continued feast, and they 

 keep it down to about six inches high by 

 continual browsing. My neighbor has a 

 field of alfalfa adjoining this, and he has 

 been changing the hogs from one to the 

 oth' r, but he is much better pleased with 



