THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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A whole year's program being planned in advance enables the local 

 bee-kepeers to plan accordingly. 



The subjects for each month are as follows: January, Busi- 

 ness; February, The Wintering of Bees; March, Stimulative Feeding 

 for Brood Increase ; April, Inspection Work and Elimination of 

 Diseases of Bees; May, Swarming and Re-Queening; June, Selected 

 Topic, by Hon. J. Lewis Ellsworth, Secretary of the State Board 

 of Agriculture ; September, Products of the Hive ; October, The 

 Commercial Side of Bee-Keeping ; November, Production of Comb 

 and Extracted Honey ; and December, First Lessons in Bee-Keeping, 

 the Elements and Essentials of the Art. 



Clover One Year Old. 



W. E. Krause, of Ridgeland, Wis., writes me as follows: 

 "There has been quite a discussion as to whether clover yields 

 honey the first or second year. Both arguments are right. 



"Clover sown in early spring will yield a little honey by August 

 or September, providing we have a wet season. But the following 

 season will be the time we will have the real flow. This same 

 clover field will yield the following year. According to nature, 

 clover ripens in July. This seed falls to the ground and begins to 

 grow and forms a plant to produce the following year, thus making 

 the plant one year old when it produces the most honey. But 

 farmers generally sow the clover seed with grain. The grain re- 

 tards the clover's growth so it can not produce honey till it is about 

 fifteen to sixteen months old, i. e., one year from the following July. 

 So the Editor of the Review is right when he says clover is one 

 year old, providing the clover is self-seeded and has full swing like 

 wild flowers, but if anyone says that it produces honey best the 

 second year, he is oft" too. We mossbacks around here call it the 





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Villain, where is my child ? — ( T/ic Leader.) 



