July, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



515 



Ford is that repair pai'ts can be bought at 

 a very moderate figure. Wlien one part 

 plays out when the rest of tlie machine is 

 g-ood, a moderate sum will buy a new one. 

 In this way the original cost of investment 

 is kept down, and the machine kejit in 

 action. The Western Honey Producers use 

 three machines, all Fords, 



The other day some one asked me how 

 much Henry Ford paid me for booming his 

 automobile. I answered him by saying that 

 Mr. Ford probably does not know me 

 among the hundreds of thousands of his 

 customei"s; and even if he did, be would not 

 be likely to tijD me off. All I can say is 

 that the Ford is a cheap machine, reliable, 

 and for quick runabout work and light 

 truckwork there is nothing quite its equal 

 for the money. If one plans right, a little 

 Ford with a wagon-box on the rear will 

 handle a series of outyards, and do practi- 

 cally 95 per cent of the hauling. 



A LAW-BREAKER VJllO TURNED OUT TO BE A 

 PUBLIC BENEFACTOR. 



[Our older readers will remember Dr. E. A. Mor- 

 gan, whom A. I. Root, as long ago as 1876, dubbed 

 "the ABC child who grew so fast;" for he was a 

 reader of the ABC book, and was making wonderful 

 progress. From time to time he gave some account 

 of his successes. At that time he was in Wisconsin, 

 but later on he moved to South Dakota, where he 

 began to distinguish himself again. 



He is no longer a " child " in the business, as he 

 has now come to be one of the Gamaliels at whose 

 feet we delight to sit and listen. 



The story he is about to tell is right in line with 

 the story that E. R. Root has told just preceding, and 

 he was just beginning to fear that perhaps some 

 might doubt his word as to the possibility of sweet 

 clover in this middle-west country. But here comes 

 Dr. Morgan with the best kind of support. 



We hope the reader, even if he does not read any- 

 thing else, will read the following, for it means 

 millions of tons of honey as against thousands of tons 

 without this erstwhile despised weed now recognized 

 as one of the greatest food plants ever grovm. — Ed.] 



Mr. Root: — Your letter of Feb. 5, asking 



Fig. 6. — The Sioux City field meet — the best part 

 of the program. 



me to furnish you with an article for publi- 

 cation in Gleanings, telling something of 

 the amount of sweet clover in this locality, 

 is at hand. 



As you well know, I began beekeeping 

 in 1869 at Arcadia, Wis., and wrote you 

 many articles for publication in the years 

 that followed. In 1900 I moved to this 

 state and settled at Vermilion, and at once 

 began beekeeping, but found a scarcity of 

 bee foi'age — few tlowers, bees barely mak- 

 ing a living. 



I became acquainted with a Mr. Thomas 

 Chantry, of Meckling, S. D., who had raised 

 good crops of honey. He told me he had 

 sown white sweet clover along the roadsides 

 thruout his vicinity, and that it was a great 

 honey-yielder ; and that if I would gather 

 some seed and sow it at Vermilion I could 

 soon' get a big honey crop. 



I did so, and thoroly seeded the railroad 

 right of way and all roadsides for two miles 

 around, and waste places along the Missouri 

 River bottoms which pass here. It gTew to 

 an amazing height, and the second year I 

 began to reap a benefit. 



The farmers at once became alarmed, and 

 feared it would get into their fields, and 

 wondered what it was and where it came 

 from. They held a meeting and agreed to 



Fig. 7. — Tlie field meet on the lawn of E. 

 tural College, Iowa, speaking. 



G. Brown; Prof. F. E. Millcn, of (he Ames Agricul- 



