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 Eight Extra Pages this Month and Last. 



VOL. XXVI. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, M AY 1, 1913 No. 5 



"See Idaho First." 



In the April number of the pubHcation bearing- the abo\'e name, 

 which is the official publication of an organi;/ation bearing the same 

 name, ex-President George W. York, of Sandpoint, Idaho, has an 

 article on "Bee-Keeping in Idaho" in which he points out the im- 

 portance of the bee industry to the state. Good work. Brother 

 York ; keep it up. 



Sweet Clover a Weed in Minnesota. 



There has reached this office during the month a bulletin on 

 Minnesota weeds, published by the University of [Minnesota, and I 

 notice that sweet clover is among the list of weeds published. Evi- 

 dently the writers, A\\ L. Oswald and Andrew Boss, do not realize 

 that the value of this plant has become so well recognized that it is 

 no longer classified as a weed. 



The danger lies in the fact that where they have laws against 

 weeds it lays one liable for growing or allowing to grow on his 

 premises a plant which should not be considered a w^eed at all. 



