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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Make This a Lewis Year 



While you are starting the year's work— getting your bees 

 ready for business— taking stock of supplies on hand and 

 speculating as to what the season's outcome will be 



Make This Resolution 



That you will use LEWIS BEEWARE this year — because it means success insurance 

 to you — because it means beehives and parts made of the best material by skillful 

 workmen — because it means goods accurately and systematically packed — because it 

 means sections made of bright lumber, highly polished, accurately dovetailed, and sci- 

 entifically grooved. 



Lewis Hives are Built Like Furniture 



Lewis Sections are the Kind that do not Break in Folding 



You will find LEWIS BEEWARE almost at yoiu- own door— thirty distributing houses 



in the United States and foreign countries. If you have not one 



of our catalogs send for copy at once. 



G. B. Lewis Company, Watertown, Wis., U. S. A. | 



Exclusive Manufacturers Lewis Beeware i:*:: 



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SWEET -CLOVER SEED | 



Quick Germination I 



Get our ' ' Scarified ' ' Sweet-clover Seed, which will germinate from 85 to 95 

 per cent the first year, and thus insure you a good stand right from the start. By 

 sowing our seed you will save money, as it takes only about half as much scarified 

 to sow an acre as ordinary hulled seed. 



1 lb. |10 1bs.|30 1bs. lOOlbs, 



Unhulled White, recleaned I $0.25 



Hulled White, recleaned and scarified 0.30 



Hulled Yellow, recleaned and scarified 0.20 



(MeUlotns Officinalis) [ 



$2.00 

 2.75 

 1.80 



$5.10 

 6.75 

 5.10 



$16.00 

 22.50 

 17.00 



60 1b. 

 a bu. 



$13.50 

 10.20 



5bu. 

 a bu. 



$4.80 



13.00 



9.50 



10 bu. 

 a bu. 



$4.50 



12.50 



9.00 



Lbs. 

 per acre 



25 to 30 

 6 to 10 

 8 to 12 



When seed is wanted by parcel post, be sure to include postage. Bags will be 

 included in the weight in parcel-post shipments. 



Please Note. — All of our seed is thoroly cleaned. The scarifying process usu- 

 ally breaks some of the seeds, and we remove all broken seeds. This is an impor- 

 tant saving to you. Samples on application. 



I Dadant & Sons, Hamilton, Illinois | 



S YELLOW SWEET CLOVER. — Many people fail to recognize the value of the biennial | 



s yellow sweet clover as a honey-plant. The fact that it blooms two weeks earlier than the white s 



M variety makes it especially valuable to the beekeeper. Be sure, however, to get the biennial M 



= variety as quoted above. = 



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