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GLEANINGS IN IJEE CULTURE. 



371 



Slokos. of Pliiladi'Iptiia. among thoir grass 

 seeds and clovers tlu-v di'siuMiiitc it as follows: 

 " Bokhara clover iMiiilntus Uiininthd)." Now, 

 this seed tliat they iiatne iii this way is always 

 hulled. When father Langstroth iirst called 

 my attention to it as a honey plant he called It 

 .^fcUlittus U'ucttnthd. 



If we quote one of the names, a good many 

 people will not know what it is; therefore we 

 have mentioned both names, just as we do 

 when we say *' basswood, or linden trees;" 

 and even then a good many of our customers 

 will say, "Send me half a dozen each of bass- 

 wood and linden trees," thinking there are two 

 kinds. If somebody could invent a way of 

 getting rid of so many names for one and the 

 same thing, it would be a wonderful help all 

 along the line.— Ed.] 



SWEET CLOVER, WHITE AND YELLOW— AKE 

 THEV THE SAME? 



On page 255. in speaking of yellow and white 

 sweet clover, you say, " My experience is that 

 the color of the blossoms indicates no difference 

 at all in the plant." As our little girl would 

 say, you make a •' mistaken " if you think that 

 it is one and the same plant. On dumping- 

 ground in Peoria, III., I have seen a sheet of 

 gold on this plant a full month before a blos- 

 som appeared upon the white. The leaves and 

 stalks are finer and more abundant, making 

 better hay, and curing more readily, and not so 

 woody as the white. The white variety grows 

 taller than the yellow. 



On my return from St. Andrews Bay, Fla., 

 Apr. 13, every colony of bees answered to roll- 

 call, and most of them were populous. They 

 are busy carrying water to-day. 



A good crop of honey has been secured in 

 that part of Florida, from the ti-ti bloom. The 

 country is fast recovering from the disastrous 

 freeze of two years ago. A few orange-trees 

 bloomed and set fruit. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Peoria, 111., Apr. 19. 



MORE ABOUT SWEET CLOVER, WHITE AND YEL- 

 LOW, ETC. 



I do not think white and yellow sweet clover 

 are identical, judging from the manner it grows 

 here. Although its manner of growth is simi- 

 lar, the yellow is considered to be not as good 

 for producing nectar as the white. Here in 

 Albany Co. we have both kinds, although we 

 have the white in greater profusion. I notice 

 each kind generally isolated; that is, there 

 will be patches of each in different places, 

 showing that each perpetuates its own kind. 

 Where they grow near each other the seeds 

 may have been mixed, which would account 

 for an occasional stem of yellow growing among 

 the white, as remarked on page 255. 



Is sweet clover of value, both green and dry, 

 as feed for stock ? Slock refuse to eat it green 

 when growing in pasture fields. When pasture 

 fails they will eat it green. Cut and cured 

 before stalks get woody, say when blossom-buds 

 appear, stock will eat it in winter, and it makes 



excellent fodder. Sweet clover will perpetuate 

 only where no cultivation is done. Plowed 

 under before it ripens Its seed, it Is as easily 

 eradicated as any other clover. 

 So. Bethlehem, N. Y. G. J. Flansburgh. 



THE TWO KINDS OK SWEET CLOVER — YELLOW 

 AND WHITE. 



I know of a kind growing on the streets of 

 Beatrice, Neb., that is distinctly a yellow, and 

 does not grow so rank or tall as the white 

 variety, which also grows along the roadside 

 around the same town. This yellow variety is 

 much earlier to bloom, but you can not tell one 

 from the other before the bloom starts to open 

 I am told that this yellow kind was sown by 

 a German bee-keeper several years ago, and it 

 is believed he either brought or had them sent 

 from Europe for that purpose. 



Steinauer, Neb. Chas. J. Harris. 



SWEET CLOVER FOR STOCK. 



In regard to sweet clover, I find that stock 

 eat it as readily as alfalfa, and I have noticed 

 my horses leave their corn to bite a choice tid- 

 bit that happened in their prairie hay. I also 

 notice that there is no sweet clover growing in 

 the pastures, but it is coming in rapidly along 

 the roads and hay land. I think persons sow- 

 ing it should put it in a field by itself rather 

 than along the road. B. G. Sowle. 



Kearney, Neb., Apr. 10. 



IN KANSAS, STOCK EAT RIGHT DOWN INTO THE 

 GROUND TO GET IT. 



□ Is it not very strange that some people's stock 

 will not eat sweet clover, green or dried ? My 

 horses and cattle are running on a piece this 

 early in April, and they eat right into the 

 ground to get it, and yet they are well fed; but 

 stock that have never been used to it will not 

 eat it at first sight. ' Joseph Shaw. 



a Strong City, Kan., Apr. 10. 



IN [NEBRASKA THEY' LEARN TO EAT IT DUR- 

 ING A DRY' YEAR. 



^Out in Western Iowa the lanes were full of 

 sweet clover until we had a very dry year; and 

 the stock, in driving them to pasture, got to 

 eating it, and seemed toulike it as well as any 

 thing they can get since. E. W. Morehouse. 

 Sutherland, Nebr., Apr. 7. 



CASES, SECTIONS, AND BEE-RANGE. 



EXTRACTED -HONEY' CASES. 



By W. A. H. Oilstrap. 



I am interested in the article on shipping 

 honey, p. 232. I don't know how it is done, 

 but somehow the Southern Pacific can smash 

 cases holding two new GO-lb. cans of extracted 

 honey, when well-nailed coaloil cases are used. 

 With a partition between the cans I have never 



