OOTOBER 1920 



GLEANINGS IN B K E C U L T U R E 



oL' liis book. "Fit'tv Years Anionic tlie 

 Bees." 



In the year 1913 he averaged a litth' 

 more than 266 sections per ('olony from 72 

 colonies, siiring count. Of course miicli 

 greater results — that is, in the number of 

 I)ounds— have been secured of extracted 

 lioney : but I do not now recollect any bet- 

 ter i-ecord from comb honey. Let us figure 

 a little. If he received even 20 cents a 

 section for his comb honey (and T do not 

 know but he got as nuich as 2.'3) it would 

 be o\er $50 for each colony. 



This illustrates the wisdom of hanging 

 on to your chosen pursuit, thru thick and 

 thin, good seasons and bad. This one 

 yield was secured in spite of the fact that 

 he was, during that very season, fighting 

 (at least to some extent) European foul 

 brood. He thinks that, if it had not been 

 for this disease, he could have done at least 

 a little better. Just think of it, friends: 

 a honey crop that sold for between $3,000 

 and $4,000 from an apiary of only 72 colo- 

 nies, spring count! 



P. S. — Our readers will doubtless per- 

 ceive in reading the above that it was 

 written before Dr. Miller's death. In fact, 

 it was all in type when we received the 

 sad news that he had already passed over 

 to the ' * heavenly mansions ' ' alluded to in 

 the last words of his letter. Further par- 

 ticulars in regard to his death will be found 

 elsewhere in this issue. 



I'|;()11AI!I,K I'lilCt; OF THK XKW CLOVKl,' 

 SEKI) FOR 1021. 



A good friend sent me the clipping be- 

 low which was taken from some periodical 

 jtublished in Iowa. 



BIG PRICE FOR CLOVER SEED. . . . 

 SHENANDOAH, lA., Aug. 20. — The Henry Field 

 Seed Co. of this city has just .sold twenty busliel.s 

 of seed of the Professor Hughes new annual white 

 sweet clover to the DeGraff Canning Co., DeGraif, 

 Ohio, at $300 a bushel, or $5 a pound. Delivea-y 

 is to be made as soon as the seed is harvested this 

 fall. 



For two years past I have urged seed- 

 men to "sit up and take notice" in regard 

 to this "new revolution in agriculture," as 

 the Rural New-Yorker has it. It seems the 

 Henry Field Seed Co. were the only ones 

 to catch on. If any other seed catalog 

 anywhere has mentioned oil* offered the 

 seed for sale, I shall be glad to have a 

 notice of it and I will give them credit. 



Six thousand dollars for clover seed that 

 grew on six acres of land is something 

 worth while. See cut of Field's planta- 

 tion on p. 560 of our last issue. 

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SCARIFIED SEED TUB BEST. 



I am sending a clipping I tho't would interest 

 you, if you had not seen it in the daily papers. 



Last fall I received a package of annual sweet 

 clover seed from the A. I. Root Company. About 

 a week after sowing it this spring, I got from 

 Ames, Iowa, a small package of scarified seed, that 

 came up before the other. One plant four months 

 from sowing was 7 ft. 6 in. high. 

 E.xira, Iowa, Aug. 26, 1920. Jno. Edwards. 



THE NEW AXXUAL SWEET CLOVKK UP TO DATE 



We are still sending out seed and still 

 planting seed and transplanting plants here 

 in Ohio. The c^uestion is often asked, "If 

 the seed is sown so late that it does not 

 have a chance to bloohi, will it winter over, 

 say here in Ohio?" It will do so all right 

 in Kentucky, Virginia, and other States 

 still further south. But I w^ish to give the 

 matter a further test right here in Ohio. 

 The nuestion is also asked if it will pay to 

 use manure and other fertilizers in addi- 

 tion to lime. To test this I made a small 

 bed and gave it a heavy application of old 

 well-rotted manure. This was chopped up 

 and thoroly mixed with the soil. Then to 

 ascertain if there was any hann in giv- 

 ing too much lime. I raked in the lime until 

 the ground was absolutely white. I did not 

 know but it would kill the seed and plants: 

 but I am glad to tell you that that little 

 bed of plants is now just booming. Some 

 of them are now over a foot high, and 

 "just growing like weeds." When I go 

 back to my Florida home I expect to carry 

 along a lot of the plants and have the mat- 

 ter fully tested during the winter time in 

 southern Florida. 



GROWING WILD IN ALAB.^M.^. 



Under separate cuver I am sundinu you a few 

 plants of the "Annual Sweet Clover," thinking that 

 they may \>e of interest to you. These plants were 

 growing wild. The large stalk measured nine feet 

 high when pulled; it grew in rich, moist bottom 

 land: you will note the difference in the root 

 growth. The other plants are the second growth 

 this season, the first growth being cut for hay 

 before it was in bloom, about .luly 10th. You will 

 notice where the old stock had been cut, by the 

 old, di'ied-up stub; and what is roost interesting 

 is how the plant branched out from the old stub. 

 In a field of about two acres of nearly solid 

 growth, I find most of the plants have branched 

 out like the sample sent you. 



I have also sent Prof. Hughes, Ames. Iowa, one 

 very tall stalk, the largest T have found to date. 

 It had a spread of branches of 5 V2 feet, and the 

 root system was most interesting. 



AllenviUe, Ala., Sept. 2, 1920. E. Eggeinan. 

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I thought it might be interesting to you to know 

 that I am one of the persons Prof. Hughes, in 

 his letter of .Tuly 2 to 5Ir. .\. I. Root, spoke 

 of as being interested in the annual white sweet 

 clover growing here. In fact. I am the one that 

 sent him samples of plants and established the fact 

 that the annual is growing wild here in this sec- 

 tion. Well, Prof. Hughes came and spent same 

 time at my house. We found him a most splendid 

 gentleman, and he seemed to en.ioy every minute 

 of his two weeks' stay in this little village. While 

 here he located several fields of the annual, con- 

 taining in the agregate more than 100 acres. It 



