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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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I have had no experience with sweet clover 

 as a forage after it is cured, but I do i<now that 

 stock will eat it very readily when green, and 

 it is never seen to get very large along the road- 

 sides where dairies are driven to and from the 

 pastures. 



Aisike clover is sown to a considerable extent 

 ill this locality, and I consider it of much more 

 value as a lioney-producing plant than sweet 

 clover, and it is certainly very valuable as a 

 forage-plant, making better hay than red clo- 

 ver. The farmers in this locality do not have 

 to be urged to sow aisike clover for their stock, 

 for they have learned to like it better because 

 it does not grow so large and rank, and makes 

 better hay than red clover. 



In localities where it is necessary to cultivate 

 something in order to secure a honey crop (and 

 as it is not profitable to plant for honey alone), 

 I think aisike clover should be recommended 

 first, and perhaps buckwheat next; but in this 

 locality I do not think it advisable to recom- 

 mend planting sweet clover, expecting to secure 

 a crop of surplus honey from it; but I do. ad- 

 vise encouraging its growth in all waste places, 

 for farmers need have no fear of its growing 

 where it is not wanted, and it will never become 

 as noxious a weed as the daisy, thistle, or wild 

 parsnip. 



Larrabee's Pt., Vt., Feb. 10. 



AN OPEN LETTER TO RAMBLER. 



roundaboutwise, and you will not have more 

 than time to brush up a little before I shall be 

 there, bag and baggage, to stay for good and 

 all. I intend to keep house for you, for I am 

 tired to death reading about those pancak 



By Miss Eugenia Morse. 



Dear Rambler: — Everesteemed Friend: — I 

 thought I would write you a letter through 

 GLEANING.S, as I do not know the number of 

 your postoffice box; and at our postoffice the 

 box is more important than the State. How- 

 ever, it is hardly worth while, for I shall be in 

 California about as soon as this can reach you 



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EUGENIA morse's LETTER TO RAJFKLER 



"I shall be with you about as soon as my letter. You will 

 just have time to brush up a little. Eugenia." 



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5I<>B ye lit-Hp \3Tr.b\i<nb.b<'n^ye birds in ^lef' 

 rambler's EXULTATION. 



There must be a change or you won't live long. 

 Now, if you would take a little salt and short- 

 ening in the flour, and wet with cold water, and 

 roll thin, and bake on griddle, you would find 

 them a heap better. However, it is not worth 

 while writing recipes when I shall be there soon 

 to do the cooking. Father used to say, " Feed 

 your beans pie, Eugenia," so I shall give you 

 pie if there are any apples in that orange coun- 

 try. Oranges seem too picnicky for 

 common use. How I long to be out 

 in the brush picking sticks for the 

 oven, and away from slavery to the 

 ax and wood-choppers! Such a free, 

 easy, romantic life is just what I've 

 sighed for all my days (since I grew 

 up). I feel young— so vcrij young 

 I'm sure we shall make a pair; and 

 if you look as old as you did the 

 morning you went to Chino we shall 

 be a match in looks without dispar- 

 agement. What I like in you is the 

 way you keep an umbrella. Such 

 careful ways go to my heart, and I 

 know you are not an inferior man- 

 ager, and will get rich— too rich, 

 may be. We must not set our hearts 

 on riches. My failing is to be a trifle 

 jealous, and I am so pleased to see 

 you so indifferent to all females as 

 you journey over hill and dale, car- 



