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37th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 25, 1897. 



No. 8. 



Growing Crimson and Alfalfa Clover. 



BT MBS. L. C. AXTELL. 



We have great hopes for the crimson or scarlet clover as 

 a spring honey-plant. If we can get that to live and blossom 



Crimson Clover. 



for the bees it will furnish nectar just in the right time, so 

 that no spring feeding will be required, and it is so much bet- 



ter for the bees, and for the bee-keeper, for the bees to' get 

 their supplies from the flowers. It is conducive to their^best 

 health. 



The crimson clover blossoms just between apple-bloom 

 and white clover, is in blossom about two weeks, and is gone 

 before white clover comes into bloom, or before the white 

 yields much nectar. The first blossoms of the white does not 

 seem to yield much nectar. I have seen the roadsides]^and 



Alfalfa or Lucern Clover. 



fields perfectly white with blossoms from white clover and 

 scarcely a bee to be seon upon llie blossoms ; and the next 

 week the bees would be working with all their might upon it, 

 fairly tumbling over each other to save the nectar. 



I used to be frightened, sometimes, to see how little at- 

 tention the bees paid to the white clover, for fear it would be 

 out of blossom and the bees get no honey, but I believe X have 

 never seen a season bnt what they got a crop of houey from 



