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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 9. 



proven a failure. It is a bieDnial plant 

 here; you sow it, say this spring, and it 

 makes a good crop next year, and dies, 

 root and branch. If it would make two 

 or more good crops like red clover, from 

 the one seeding, there would be some 

 chance for its introduction, but it won't. 



C. H. Dibbern — Anything that will 

 grow in your locality, and furnish nectar 

 for your bees. Sweet clover is the only 

 plant that I know of, that can be de- 

 pended upon to hold its own against all 

 the world, and is one of the best honey- 

 plants we have. 



Mrs. L. Harrison— Sweet clover, in all 

 waste places, gravelly knolls, and road- 

 sides. The more it is down-trodden, the 

 better it thrives. Encourage the sowing 

 of crimson clover. Alfalfa in localities 

 where it will thrive. Alsike clover first, 

 last, and all the time. 



J. E. Pond — In my own locality I do 

 not think it pays to spread plants, with 

 a view to a gain of honey. Buckwheat 

 seems to me to come nearest to the 

 point, and that sometimes fails to give a 

 honey crop. The ordinary, natural 

 products are the best for the purpose, in 

 my judgment. 



P. H. Elwood — Alsike clover, crimson 

 clover (where it succeeds), white clover, 

 and buckwheat. I do not advise nor 

 have ever practiced, spreading weeds, 

 but dandelion and sweet clover are good 

 honey-plants. Dr. Miller may pull my 

 hair for calling the last a " weed," but it 

 is not used for forage about here. 



.las. A. Green — Sweet clover and Al- 

 sike are about the only plants which I 

 could recommend very highly, unless the 

 linden would come under this bead. 

 There are many more which are more or 

 less useful, but I have had no experience 

 with any others that will pay very well 

 for the labor or expense of spreading 

 them. 



Emerson T. Abbott— The value of a 

 honey-plant depends upon its adaptabil- 

 ity to the locality, soil, climate, etc. It 

 will not pay to plant anything for honey 

 alone, and here in the West it is not 

 necessary. With this locality in mind, I 

 would name: Alfalfa, Alsike clover, 

 crimson clover, sweet clover, buckwheat, 

 mammoth clover, and all of the culti- 

 vated berries and fruit-trees. These are 

 not all plants, strictly speaking, but 

 they all have a value aside from the 

 honey they produce. I do not think 

 there can be any question of alfalfa being 

 the prince of honey-plants in any local- 

 ity where it will thrive, and I am not so 

 sure but sweet clover comes next. The 

 Government Report says, "Alfalfa has 

 been grown with more or less success in 

 every State and Territory in the Union." 



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Oar bees passed through the winter in 

 very good condition— lost only about 3 per 

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 others take care of it when brought from 

 the apiary. In this manner we can take 

 care of a great amount of honey in a short 

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Dr. Peiro, on page 191, says he has just 

 passed through a severe cold. My father 

 is in a great deal worse condition than 

 that. For the last two years he has been 

 afflicted with diabetes, and has not so much 

 as dared to taste the honey from our api- 

 ary. When he would be busy with the 

 bees, and get honey on his hands, he felt 

 very much like licking it off, but dared not 

 do it. Not only is he forbidden to taste 

 honey, but all kinds of sugar and starch. 

 Fannie Shafnit. 



Brighton, Iowa, March .3. 



[We are glad to get the above from Miss 

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 keepers would send in reports. We would 

 like every lady reader of the American Bee 

 Journal take this as a personal invitation 

 from us, to send in a report within the next 

 two weeks. Now, you can't say we never 

 gave the women a chance to exercise their 

 inalienable rights. — Editor.] 



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 dition. Jos. Bargehr. 



Webster, Pa., March 17. 



Wire-Cloth for a Bee-Veil. 



I have seen several plans for a bee-veil, 

 but none so good as a small piece of wire- 

 cloth to go over the eyes, as it interferes 

 with the eye-sight scarcely any at all. Any 

 kind of thin cloth will do for the balance 

 of the veil. J. W. Hatmond. 



Asheville, N. C. 



Clipping Queens— Selling Honey. 



A great deal is said about clipping 

 queens, and how it ought to be done so as 

 not to injure the queen. Some recommend 

 a knife, some a spring cage and a plunger. 

 I have clipped queens for 15 years and over, 

 and never injured or touched one. My 

 method is as follows: 



I take a small pair of round-pointed scis- 

 sors, such as come in a surgeon's small 

 pocket-case; take the frame with the 

 queen on it, and rest it on the hive; with 

 the left hand put the point of the scissors 

 under the wing and clip. It is done in a 

 second after one has done a few. 



If the scent is so important, after one or 

 two queens are clipped in the device de- 

 scribed on page 130, Feb. 27, I cannot see 

 why the scent would not be imparted to the 

 cage. 



Mr. R. C. Aikin, on page 131, hits the 

 nail, about people having good sense in 

 general use and none in regard to honey. 

 These are not his words, but it is the En- 

 glish of it. To give an illustration : 



A neijjhbor came over to my place. I 

 was extracting honey. He bought some. I 

 drew it from the extractor into some jars 

 he brought with him. This was in October. 

 A week ago he came over, and wanted to 

 know what kind of stuff I sold him for 

 honey. The jar he brought over was as 

 white as marble. I explained to him the 

 best I could the cause, but still he thought 



