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a weakness here, I installed a dash oil-gun 

 so that a small additional quantity of oil 

 could be forced into the crank-case whenever 

 needed. It is very essential, especially in 

 doing heavy work with an automobile, to 

 use plenty of oil all the time. Likewise to 

 keep tires well pumped up, and every thing 

 well tightened about the machine. 



Tires are the largest unavoidable expense. 

 After blowing upao2Xo>^ tire I installed 

 33X4 tires of heavy-car type on rear wheels, 

 also extra inner casings in the front tires, 

 which reinforce the outer casings. 



We figure that, while an automobile is ex- 

 pensive, speed is essential in out-apiaries 

 scattered as far as 20 miles apart. A horse 

 would take three hours in going 15 miles, or 

 six hours spent on the road. The auto makes 

 the same distance in ^ of an hour or less, 

 and with much more corafort; consequently 

 we work our eight yards nearly as easily as 

 though they were near home. In a day of 

 ten hours the horse outfit leaves four hours 

 to work with bees, while the auto leaves 8)4 

 hours, or 4>^ hours in favor of the auto in 

 each day's work. A saving in wages of four 

 men for 4>^ hours a day is 18 hours for one 

 man. At 20 cts. per hour this makes $3.60, 

 which more than pays our expense of the 

 automobile trip. Does it pay to own an au- 

 tomobile? We think it pays us well, al- 

 though not so much for hauling bees as we 

 anticipate for the extracling-power outfit, 

 motor drawn, which is nearly completed. 

 It contains power extractor, engine, steam 

 capping-knife, combination gravity and 

 wire-cloth strainer, and, in fact, every thing 

 we could think of for convenience, all mount- 

 ed on the trailer, and covered with canvas 

 and wire cloth. At a later date we may ex- 

 pose our little selves at work taking the 

 spoils from the bee with this horse-lerroriz- 

 ing contraption. 



Hebron, Ind. 



[We had the pleasure of visiting ISIr. Cav- 

 anagh early in the season, at which time we 

 took some pictures which will be shown la- 

 ter. With a number of outyards, scattered 

 as they must be, an automobile for an ex- 

 tensive producer is a money-saver, especial- 

 ly if equipped with this very ingenious trail- 

 er. For business })urposes we believe that 

 nothing is better than a used car, rebuilt 

 and overhauled at the factory, 8uch a ma- 

 chine, while a little out of date, perhaps, in 

 a few details, is just as good as a new one 

 for hard service, and at a cost of only about 

 half the price of a new outfit. — Ed.] 



SOWING SWEET CLOVER WITH OTHER 

 CROPS. 



BY FRANK COVERDALE. 



The writer of the foUowing Is, perhaps, the best 

 authority on sweet-clover growing of any man in 

 the United States if not in the world. His exten- 

 sive experience in growing sweet clover himself, 

 and also his opportunity of picking up information 

 on the subject, owing to his position as lecturer be- 

 fore farmers" institutes, and as contributor to vari- 

 ous agricultural papers, has made him the author- 

 ity that he is. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Mr, Coverdale has promised a series of articles 

 for Gleanings a little later. The following Is an 

 extract from one of his recent letters. — Kd,] 



White sweet clover can be sown any tinie 

 from early spring until Augu,.t 1, but no 

 later in this locality. I prefer sowing it the 

 first week in May, in good rich ground only. 



Judge Quarton, of Algona, Iowa, sows 

 white sweet clover with champion oats — 

 about 20 lbs. of the hulled seed to 1>^ bush- 

 els of the oats })ei acre. He cuts his oats 

 high, then gets a fine crop of hay in Oclo- 

 ber, and the second year pastures the 

 ground. 



A thin crop of barley will make good if 

 sown on rich ground, if the drouth is not 

 too severe. But I have never found a catch 

 of sweet clover when sown on poor worn 

 soil. The soil must ; e well supplied with 

 humus or lime, or both. Any pasture 

 where either cattle or hogs have been graz- 

 ing for two or three years will, when plowed 

 and put in fine shape, give excellent results. 

 In other words, the sweet clover will be a 

 sure catch. Twenty pounds of seed per 

 acre will pay every time. 



Timothy also goes well with sweet clover. 

 It is true that one can sow white sweet clo- 

 ver on almost any fairly good soil and get a. 

 catch in spots, but this is not very satisfac- 

 tory. The same field, if seeded to other le- 

 gumes and timothy, then in a year or two 

 plowed up and seeded to sweet clover, will 

 give very satisfactory results. The humus 

 will answer every purjwse, and the lime 

 also sweetens up the soil so that it will 

 grow. 8weet clover will not do well in the 

 Middle States until the people learn what 

 kind of ground to sow it on. 



Delmar, Iowa. 



Is it Advisable to Feed Cheap Glucose to Stimulate.'' 



Can we Prevent Syrup from Going into the 



Supers ? 



How will cheap glucose syrup do for stimulative 

 feeding for warm weather? I want to increase for 

 a fall honey-ttow. My bees are weak in numbers, 

 and I shall have to get nay colonies stronger or I 

 shall not get much honey this fall, 



1 wish to ask if you know of any device to be used 

 in stimulative feeding so as not to have it mixed in 

 the sections or extracting-combs, as we know that, 

 under the pure-food laws, mixing glucoss spoils our 

 honey for market, as we find that a small propor- 

 tion of glucose is bad, and is easily detected, 



Lexington, Ind,, July 8, L, E, Mace, 



[We would not advise cheap glucose for stimula- 

 tive feeding under any circumstances. Nothing i.s, 

 cheaper than the ver.y best quality of granulated 

 sugar. Glucose has so little nutriment for the bees 

 (for the price) that you will find that granulated 

 sugar will be just .•^ls cheap, if not cheaper, and far 

 safer to feed. Again, we doubt very much if you 

 can get bees to take glucose at all. We tried some 

 experiments a few years ago, giving the bees glu- 

 cose diluted with warm water: but they simply 

 would not take the vile stuff. You can get them to 

 take it by mixing it with honey or with sugar syr- 

 up. But that is poor economy. What is the use of 

 feeding bees something that they don't like and 

 will not take? We might as well recommend mix- 

 ing oats and sawdust together to feed horses. 



We know of no device that you can use to pre- 

 vent syrup fed in the brood-chamber from going up 

 into the supers if you allow the brood-chamber to 

 become too full of the feed, la fact, we know of na 

 reason why you should feed when the honey-flow 

 is on. Unless bees ai-e gathering honey from the 

 field, the supers ought to oome off,'-Ej).] 



