THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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WEEKLY EDITION 



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PUBLISHED AT 



925 WEST MADISON-STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Weekly, S;3 a year ; Monthly, 50 cents. 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



EDITOH AND PKOP8IBTOK, 



Vol. XXI. Chicago.Jan. ?8, 1885, No. 4. 



Keep a Book Account. 



Working haphazard is a very ques- 

 tionable way of doing business, and 

 you will find scarcely any successful 

 person that does not keep a debtor and 

 creditor account with his stock, for 

 he knows that it is the only true way 

 to tell how much has been made dur- 

 ing the season or how much has been 

 lost. A well-kept account will teach 

 many valuable and profitable lessons, 

 for it will show plainly just where 

 certain gains were made, and how 

 they may be increased ; it will show 

 where losses have been sustained, and 

 will suggest a remedy for the same. 

 After it is once commenced, it is very 

 little trouble to keep a regular ac- 

 count, for a few minutes each evening 

 will be all the time required to attend 

 to it properly. 



We think we are looking to the 

 interest of every reader when we 

 commend the use of the " Record & 

 Account Book " noticed on another 

 page. It is complete in every respect, 

 and should be generally utilized. The 

 price is S3.00 ; but we will club it and 

 the Weekly Bee Journal for a year 

 for $4.00. If you have already sent 

 us $2.00 for the Weekly Bee Jour- 

 ifAL for a year, we will send the 

 Book for another $2.00 making $4.00 

 in all. If you want it sent by mail, 

 add 24 cents for postage. 



W For 5 or 6 weeks the weather 

 has been extremely cold; the ther- 

 mometer in Chicago ranging below 

 zero nearly all the time ; several times 

 it indicated 30^ below zero. The cold 

 weather has not only been severe, but 

 long continued, notwithstanding the 

 prophets promised us a mild winter! 



Cultivation of the Clovers. 



It will soon be time to be thinking 

 of pasturage for tlie bees. Some will 

 want to plant and in reply to inqui- 

 ries we give below illustrations of the 

 Clovers, and how to plant tliem, copied 

 from Landreth's liural Register for 

 188-5, published by David Landreth & 

 Sons, Seed Farmers, 21 & 23 South 

 6th St., Philadelphia, Pa., who have 

 kindly furnished ns with the illus- 

 trations. 



We will enumerate other honey- 

 producing plants, hereafter. 



Red Clover— Trifolium pratense. 



This is the most widely cultivated 

 of all the pasturage plants, loosening 

 the soil and admitting tlie air and 

 drawing up and storing away near the 

 surface the valuable principles scat- 

 tered in the eartii beneath. It is 

 regarded as one of the best of vegeta- 

 ble fertilizers, as well as a cattle-food 

 of highest merit. Sow, in the spring, 

 16 lbs. to the acre. 



White Clover— Trifolium repens. 

 Not a heavy producer of hay, but 

 invaluable in permanent pastures. 

 Will grow on any soil, but luxuriates 

 in damp locations and in damp sea- 

 sons. Sow 12 lbs. to the acre. 



Lucerne or Alfalfa— Medicago sativa. 



It resists the driest weather, and 

 when every blade of grass droops for 

 want of moisture, it holds up fresh 

 and green as in genial spring. Sow 10 

 lbs. to the acre. 



Trefoil— Medicago Inpulina. 



A fibrous-rooted biennial plant, and 

 (liiwers from May to August. Sow 3 



lbs. to the acre with sainfoin, or 6 lbs. 

 if alone. 



Alsike Clover— Trifolium repens. 



Possibly a hybrid between the Red 

 and White, possessing qualities com- 

 mon to both. The flowers are a dis- 

 tinct light pink, and afford fine pastur- 

 age for bees. Sow 12 lbs. per acre. 



How it is, "Over There." 



While we in the Nortliwest are 

 " frozen up " by the chilling blast of 

 the Manitoba breezes, it is refreshing 

 to read items like the following, from 

 the Chicago Daily Times. A corres- 

 pondent telegraphs thus : 



" California is now enjoying spring 

 weather. Acacia in full bloom at- 

 tracts the bees ; roses are plentiful ; 

 violets, mignonette and heliotrope are 

 in early spring flower. About one- 

 half of the rain expected in the wet 

 season has fallen, and the farmers are 

 contemplating speedy planting." 



Upon opening one of our exchanges 

 from California we find the following : 



The season just past has been re- 

 markable in every respect. The early 

 and later rains gave us such a floral 

 output as has never been known since 

 the honey-bee was first brought to 

 this part of California, in 1S5-5. 



