pounds of seed on our canvas. We sift it twice and 

 put it in a sack. Our work with the clover stretches 

 over a week or more, and we have no very large 

 quantity then, but enough to supply many bee- 

 keepers who want only a little to try it. 



Jf one wants a clover-field to be good year after 

 year as I do, I consider it very important to remove 

 the greater part of the seed. If this is not done it 

 sows itself too thickly. In harvesting as we do, there 

 is always enough left to seed the ground nicely for 

 another year. 



Comstock, Neb., Nov. 15, 1907. MBS. A. L. AMOS. 



SWEET CLOVER. 



HOW THIS HONEY-PRODUCING PLANT GROWS ON THE 

 BANKS OF THE CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL. 



Sweet clover, of the white variety, is found grow- 

 ing in such profusion on the towering banks of the 

 Chicago drainage canal, between Chicago and Joliet, 

 that apiarists are much encouraged in their at- 

 tempts to produce honey in paying quantities. 



Before this great sanitary canal was built, a large 

 amount of wild clover grew in the Des Plaines Valley. 

 It all but covered the right of way of the railroads 

 traversing the region, and spread out to a wide ex- 

 panse of prairie land. When the constructing gangs 

 with their ponderous machinery of all kinds moved 

 down the valley, digging out the earth and stone, and 

 piling it mountain high on one side or the other, 

 much of the clover growth was dug out or covered 

 up. 



Within the last few years, however, it has been 

 noticed that the clover began appearing on the rough 

 banks until at this time there are hundreds of acres 

 of it. When the bloom comes, the bees get busy, and, 

 as may be conjectured, they lay in a rich store of as 

 fine a product as may be found in any milk-and-honey 

 land in the world. 



The accompanying pictures were made at Romeo, 

 Lxinois, and near the home of John J. Keig, a poultry- 

 honey man. He breeds and raises Buff Plymouth 



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