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grows, as well as the greatest producer of 

 humus of all the clover family. There is 

 certainly a future for this clover. 



Delmar, Iowa. 



[I confess the above seems rather dis- 

 couraging in fegard to the yellow sweet 

 clover; but tliis certainly must be true: 

 Not only are there different varieties of the 

 yellow (annual and biennial) but the yel- 

 low of both kinds behaves differently in 

 different localities; and, by the way, 1 

 might mention that up to date in our Flor- 

 ida home we have not succeeded in grow- 

 ing any kind of sweet clover, even with 

 lieavy apjjlications of lime. Alfalfa gi'ows 

 fairly well with heavy fertilization, but it 

 usually dies out during the summer, in 

 consequence, perhaps, of the excessive 

 (warm) rains. 



Now to get back to yellow sweet clover. 

 Years ago, while visiting Prof. A. J. Cook, 

 in Michigan, one of the students called 

 our attention to several stalks in a rank 

 field of Avhite sweet clover, and these stalks 

 were all yellow, and just as rank and lux- 

 uriant as the white. Furthermore, I men- 

 tion, at the end of our sweet-clover book, 

 yellow sweet clover higher than my head, 

 growing profusely along the roadside. 

 Last, but not least, our experiment sta- 

 tions this past season had the rankest 

 growth of sweet clover I ever saw, and 

 with the greatest amount of bloom to the 

 square rod, and this was yellow sweet 

 clover. I am well aware that the annual 

 sometimes, and in some localities, blos- 

 soms when only a foot high or even less, 



and sometimes does not seem to get much 

 taller. We submit a picture of friend 

 Coverdale's field of sweet clover with cat- 

 tle grazing on it. — A. I. R.] 



FASTENING FOUNDATION WITH MELTED 

 WAX 



An Improvement over the Aikin Plan 



BY WM. A. SEDDING 



I want to tell how I use the R. C. Aikin 

 device for fastening foundation in frames 

 as described in the June 15th issue, 1911, 

 p. 373, with improvements of my own. I 

 nail one inch from the top a strip of board 

 11/2 inches wide and the whole length of the 

 board in jjlace of the handle, as shown at 

 B, and bend the two nails at the bottom, 

 which are pretty stout finishing nails, up- 

 ward to an angle so as to hold the top-bar 

 of the frame when the board is set on the 

 table or work-bench before me like a music- 

 holder. 



Along the lower edge of the board is 

 nailed a piece of tin, bent as shown at A. 

 I made this out of a tin rabbet, and it is 

 for the purpose of making a crimp in the 

 foundation before fastening it with hot wax 

 to the tojj-bar that has no groove and 

 wedge. 



I insert the foundation in the tin groove 

 and flop it over flat on the board. This 

 makes a nice crimjj Vs inch wide. Next I 

 lift it up and drojD the crimp over the edge 

 of the tin and put my frame on the nails. 





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Frank Coverdale's field of sweet clover v^ith cattle grazing on it. 



