THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 379 



We cannot help wondering- why it is that so many will and 

 are anxious to dispose of their bees during the fall months, even at 

 a sacrifice, and then how few there are in spring tliat will sell at 

 any price. Wonder if some of you who are writing me that you 

 have bees for sale would be glad next spring if you do not find a 

 buyer ? 



If bee-keepers could realize what surplus honey is lost each 

 year by bees being "scrimpt" of stores to breed up in s]M-ing, the 

 writer predicts that their surplus would be doubled. Now is the 

 time to invest a little capital where it y/\\\ bring in a large dividend. 

 I'ced your colonies so you know they have 25 or 30 pounds winter 

 and spring stores. 



You will notice that we are now listing (i-pound and l'?-pound 

 F. T. pails in re-shipping cases of 12 (J-pound pails and G 12-pound 

 pails, the same as other sizes. For those who never used Friction 

 'Fop pails for honey, would say that they hold just what they are 

 marked of ordinary honey in pounds. The 3-pound is a lull quart 

 size, the 6-pound is a full half gallon, and the 12-pound is a full 

 gallon size. The square gallon syruj) can with screw cap will hold 

 12 pounds of good honey, but may not hold quite that amoimt of 

 ordinary honey. X'ote — the 6-pound and the 12-i)ound pails are 

 shipped from Detroit, Mich., as the American Can Co. do not make 

 that size. 



Your attention is especially called to the account of the sweet 

 clover picnic at the home of Frank Coverdale in Clinton County, 

 Iowa, in another part of the Rkvievv. This account, appearing in 

 the Breeders' Gazette, is but one of four articles on sweet clover ap- 

 pearing in the Gazette in two weeks. There is not a farmer but 

 what is getting inf<:)rmation on sweet clover if he reads his farm 

 papers. Sweet clover and alfalfa are going to be included in the 

 crop rotation methods of all American farmers within a very short 

 time. Joseph E. Wing is talking sweet clover and alfalfa at every 

 opportunity, and Prof. liolden, the corn expert, is talking alfalfa as 

 much as corn. Alfalfa honey will soon be produced in quantities, 

 no doubt, in the east. It probably will not furnish the nectar it 

 does in the west, but you just watch the dry knolls that are seeded 

 to alfalfa, where it can keep its feet well up out of the ^vater, and 

 then a dry spell come on fcr two or three weeks. I would expect to 

 see alfalfa furnishing nectar under these conditions if the drought 

 is not too severe. — W. T. 



