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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



February, 1922 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



the furnace than crowd it into my brood- 

 chambers which are already too small. 

 Georgetown, Ont. Morley Pettit. 



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HUBAM IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 



Makes Growth of Thirty and One-half Inches in 

 Twenty-one Days 



Beekeepers, as a class, are not fully alive to 

 the possibilities of improving their business 

 thru the agency of spreading information 

 among the farmers of their various districts 

 concerning the new fodder plants, which are 

 of value to the farmer as well as the bee- 

 keeper. Hubam clover is an ideal means of 

 improving and prolonging honey flows. It 

 is a plant of wonderful fodder and soil-en- 

 riching value to the farmers, few of whom 

 appreciate its great worth. It is also a 

 good honey plant. Beekeepers might with 

 profit to their business buy seed of this clo- 

 ver from reliable dealers, thereby being sure 

 of getting the correct strain of seed, and re- 

 sell at cost to farmers in their district to 

 try out. In a short time it will be fully es- 

 tablished. 



ITuli:im clover sown on Miiy 1 at Vancouver, B. C; 

 this picture taken June 20. 



If a farmer can once see this clover grow- 

 ing, he will be quick to recogni/,e its great 

 value. Here in British Columbia we do not 

 have a great deal of cultivated crops which 

 fire of much use to the beekeeper, and in the 



coast district our honey flow is over in July. 

 A general cultivation of Hubam clover here 

 would improve and prolong our honey flow 

 until frost. The same condition is true in 

 many other parts of the country. 



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The same Hubam clover, sown on May 1, as it 

 looked on Aug. 26. 



Sweet clover is not looked upon with 

 much favor in British Columbia, but all pre- 

 vious experience with it here has been with 

 the old biennial variety, which can not be 

 compared with the new annual. 



On a trial plot here, seeded May first, Hu- 

 bam clover had by July 17 made a growth 

 of from four to five feet and was ready to 

 bloom at that time. From July 17 to August 

 6, just 21 days, it made an additional growth 

 of 301/^ inches. On some of the warmer 

 days it made a growth of two inches in 24 

 hours. When cut for hay or pastured it 

 grew still more rapidly. This clover, seeded 

 here in 1920, wintered over and was in bloom 

 a week ahead of this year's seeding. Plots 

 left uncut were still in bloom on October 12, 

 and bees were at work on them eagerly. 



Samples of Hubam at our local exhibi- 

 tion attracted a great deal of attention, and 

 there were many inquiries regarding seed. 

 The accompanying pictures will give some 

 idea of Hubam 's wonderful growth. The 

 above results were obtained in trial plots 

 under various conditions of soil prepara- 

 tions, some with lime and some without; but 

 the growth was about equal in each plot. 



Vancouver, B. C. W. P. Long. 



