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practice ; and about how much was the 

 "much?" 



I don't know what Mr. Seton means 

 when he says " I guess Mr. Thompson 

 extracted quite a bit from the same 

 source." My reported yield was 24 

 pounds of comb honey. Two of my col- 

 onies gave three supers apiece of comb 

 honey, and several of them yielded two 

 apiece. I produced about as much ex- 

 tracted as comb, I believe, but did not 

 allow that to influence my estimate, 

 which was on a strictly comb-honey 

 basis. Moreover, I did ?io( extract from 

 the brood-chamber, but from regular 

 extracting-supers. I know of two bee- 

 keepers, or apiarists, one near Morrison 

 and one near Littleton, who did well 

 last summer. I regret that I cannot 

 give their averages. 



What Mr. Seton has said, if properly 

 interpreted, furnishes a pretty good 

 commentary on the idea that general 

 farmers should keep bees. I agree with 

 him in saying, "There are many parts of 

 Colorado with all the bee-keepers they 

 need." See page 213, first few lines, 

 for more confirmation. 



The argument that Mr. Hammond 

 gives on page 220 for bee-keeping by 

 farmers misses the point entirely. To 

 illustrate: My neighbor, half a mile 

 away, who got almost nothing from his 

 bees, is no " kid-glove" farmer. He is 

 one of the kind who gets up at -4 o'clock 

 the year round, and works hard until 

 late at night. There is nothing lazy 

 about him. But why didn't he get as 

 much from his bees as I did last sum- 

 mer ? That's what I'd like to know. 

 And whatever the reason is, I am pretty 

 safe in saying that the great majority 

 of farmers are just like him. What 

 ought to be, is very different from 

 what is. 



I did not make the broad statement 

 that " focmers could not keep bees and 

 make them a success." Whatever farm- 

 ers are really competent to do so, by all 

 means let them keep bees. The avcnige 

 farmer is the man we are talking about. 

 We have had a good deal of indefinite, 

 goody-goody talk, that the farmer ought 

 to do this, and ought to do that, but no- 

 body seems to care about what he 

 actually does, and will keep on doing. 



Arvada, Colo. P. L. Thompson. 



Sweet Clover for Honey. 



Sweet clover iMcUlotus) is one of the 

 chief honey-producing plants here. It 

 grows abundantly along the roadsides, 

 in gravel pits and poor soil. It attains 

 a height of three to five feet, and when 

 in full bloom the air is filled with its 

 fragrance. 



This common plant was introduced 

 into this neighborhood by a Mr. Hintz, a 

 bee-keeper, about eight years ago. Its 

 flowers appear early in July, and con- 

 tinue until destroyed by frost During 

 a dry spell it dried up last year and shed 

 its leaves, and again after a heavy rain 

 its foliage put in its appearance once 

 more, in full bloom, with the bees busily 

 working on it all day long. I have not 

 known it to be killed by winter. 



To this plant I must credit my share 

 of honey procured, since without sweet 

 clover my crop would have been a falT- 

 ure. One colony produced 110 pounds 

 of honey — all nice, white, clear honey, 

 with a fine flavor. 



I do not favor growing it for hay, since 

 the stems are too thick. Every bee- 

 keeper should sow at least a few pounds 



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