Why has it not made greater headway to recognition? 

 That's what puzzles me. 



I have looked in many "bee-books," manuals of 

 bee-keeping, to find among the honeyplants Melilotus 

 alba alone, instead of being accompanied by its twin- 

 sister, Melilotus ojficinalis. It is mentioned in the 

 ABC but hardly gets justice. I confidently believe 

 the next edition will have more to say. 



I want to see merit find recognition. My experience 

 with the yellow sweet clover is that it is far ahead 

 of the white as a forage-plant. The white does not 

 hold its own when stock feed on it, but the yellow 

 does. Dr. Gandy, of Richardson Co., this State, has 

 had yellow sweet clover for many years, and at- 

 tributes to it much of his success as a honey-pro- 

 ducer. Mrs. Lambrigger, of Knox Co., Neb., wrote of 

 it with enthusiasm some ten years ago. 



Comstock, Neb., May 1, 1907. MRS. A. L. AMOS. 



HARVESTING SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



When, in my enthusiasm, I commenced to write of 

 yellow sweet clover as a honey-plant it was without 

 the slightest intention of going into the seed busi- 

 ness; but so many inquiries came to hand asking if 

 I could supply seed or tell where it might be ob- 

 tained, that I began to study whether I could not do 

 something toward supplying the demand. I hit upon 

 a plan of harvesting the seed in a small way, which 

 may be of interest to those who would do likewise. 



I have the clover cut with a mowing-machine when 

 the seed has partly ripened. I have this cutting done 

 after a rain, or in the morning when the dew is on it, 

 as the seed does not shake off so ^easily when wet. 

 It is allowed to lie for a few days to finish ripening, 

 when the girls and I "go for it" as shown in the pic- 

 ture. 



We spread the buggy canvas on the ground, and 

 pile on the clover. We do this in the morning when 

 it is wet, and allow it to lie till late afternoon, when 

 it is thoroughly dry and yields readily to the feet 

 and sticks of the young harvesters. After a vigorous 

 pounding and tramping we find from ten to twenty 



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