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plant ; it' the season be wet, sweet clo- 

 ver will blossom and grow and grow 

 and blossom, and if dry, its bountiful 

 and continuous yield of honey will well 

 repay the slight trouble incurred in 

 planting, and your bees be kept busy 

 and happy all the season through. For 

 three seasons have we watched and 

 studied this plant with more than usual 

 interest. In 1S7S we noticed our bees 

 flying over the plentiful white clover 

 bloom to reach the sweet clover; in 

 1879, with the ground white, as if cov- 

 ered with a mantle of fleece, the bees 

 still continued their flight till they 

 reached the street sides and unculti- 

 vated spots covered with sweet clover, 

 where the beautiful, yellow emblems 

 of industry reveled amid the profuse 



Melilot Clover. 



swe3ts, and gathered their winter stores. 

 This season, though we may now and 

 then observe a solitary bee on white 

 clover, when a clump or thicket of sweet 

 clover is observed it seems fairly ani- 

 mated with the bees in their eager quest 

 for nectar. And it is no disparagement 

 to white clover honey to say that honey 

 from sweet clover is in every quality its 

 equal, and perhaps in taste its superior. 

 We do not believe there is a more hardy, 

 reliable or better honey plant than sweet 

 clover, for all climates and localities ; 

 and we think after a trial for three sea- 

 sons the most skeptical will admit it does 

 pay to plant for honey. 



Recipe for Candy. — Prof. Hasbrouck, 

 in the Bee-Keepers'' Magazine, gives the 

 following recipe for candy with which 

 to provision queen cages : 



" Take a quantity of white sugar and 

 add i| as much boiling water by meas- 

 ure. Heat over a brisk fire stirring till 

 it boils about a minute. Remove it 

 from the fire and set the dish into a ba- 

 sin of cold water, and stir briskly until 

 it begins to get white and creamy with 

 fine crystals. Now quickly pour into 

 the cages. If it does not crystallize by 

 stirring, there is too much water in it, 

 and you will be obliged to put it back 

 on the stove and boil it another minute 

 and try it again. The point is to leave 

 just as much water in it as possible, so 

 that the grains may be fine and soft. 



11 This is the kind of candy put into 

 chocolate creams, which remain soft in- 

 definitely. Bees will live on it for 

 weeks without water, longer than on 

 honey, as I have found by actual trial. 

 With this candy you may put a bottle 

 of water into the cage, and you will find 

 that it will not be taken bv the bees." 



Adulterations with (lilucose. — The 



Chicago Inter Ocean says that the sugar 

 refiners in New York are making loud 

 complaint at the glucose adulterations 

 of the article, and declare that it is 

 slowly pushing the better qualities of 

 pure yellow sugar out of the market. 

 The debased product is sold, it appears, 

 under the representation that the dis- 

 covery of a new process of refining has 

 enabled the manufacturers to undersell 

 an article refined according to the fa- 

 miliar method in use in first-class re- 

 fineries. Other dealers erase that part 

 of the label which shows that the arti- 

 cle is not pure sugar, and bring it into 

 direct competition with the better 

 grades of unadulterated yellow at prices 

 at which the latter cannot be offered. 



"Nectar, Its Nature, Occurrence and 



Uses," is the title of a pamphlet of 30 

 pages, by Prof. Win. Trelease, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. It is an extract from the 

 "Report on Cotton Insects," by J. 

 Henry Comstock, Entomologist to the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. We acknowledge the receipt of 

 a copy of the author's edition, with 

 thanks. It is very interesting. 



