764 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE December, 192'^ 



TABLE III — COMPOSITION OF SWEET CLOVER SILAGE AND WELL-MATURED CORN SILAGE. 



, Constituents (per cent) v 



Carbohydrates. 

 Number of Nitrogen- 

 Kind of silage, of analyses. Water. Ash. Crude protein. Fiber, free extract. Fat. 

 White sweet: 



First year's growth^ 1 73.7 1.73 3.17 20.8 0.6.5 



First crop, second season^. 1 73.7 2.57 2.06 8.08 12.32 1.27 



Straw2 3 73.7 1.19 2.70 13.59 8.33 .50 



Corn, well matured^ 121 73.7 1.70 2.10 6.30 15.40 ,80 



^Analyzed by the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, ^^u^iy^g^ jjy ^jjg Bureau of Chemistry. 

 ^Analyses compiled by Henry and Morrison. 



the entire plant is used, as most of the for all Farmers' Bulletins pertaining to 



leaves shatter from sweet clover before it sweet clover, such as "Sweet Clover Utiliza- 



is cut for seed. tion," No. 820; "Growing the Crop," No. 



Next year we will see quite a few farmers 797; "Sweet Clover Harvesting and Thresh- 



cutting Hubam and corn and mixing the ing the Seed Crop," and especially Dept. 



two together in their silage. Circular No. 169. 



When this is done approximately two- At the annual meeting of the Chicago 

 thirds of the total corn acreage, which Northwestern Beekeepers' meeting in Chi- 

 would be cut for silage, may be permitted cago, December 4 and 5, I will give a dem- 

 to mature. This mixture will make much onstration in soil-testing, showing the differ- 

 better silage than corn silage alone. enee in soil before growing Hubam and after 



Beekeepers will do well to write to the growing it. 



Division of Publications, Washington, D. C, Joliet, 111. 



Hubam cut for seed. Note the large amount of straw on this field, indicating the rank growth. The soil 

 is greatly enriched by the fixation of nitrogen, and the bees are enriched by the abundant supply of nectar. 



T-\vhTS CAN THE COMBS BE SAVED 



not had ex- 

 perience with Ne^w Treatment for American Foul 



Brood by Immersion in Disinfectant 



Solution 



American foul 

 brood has miss- 

 ed a fight with a 

 dangerous ene- 

 my. On account 

 of the fact that 

 this disease is due to a germ, the apiarist 

 is dealing with an unseen enemy; that is to 

 say, this enemy can not be seen with the 

 unaided eye. We see only the destruction 

 wrought by this enemy. If we conceive that 

 perhaps fifty millions of these germs Avould 

 not make a mass as big as an ordinary pin- 

 head, and that if just a few of these 

 germs find their way into the food of a baby 

 bee, this baby bee is almost sure to die, 

 showing the usual symptoms of Ameiiean 



ByJ. C. Hutzelman, M. D. 



foul brood. If 

 germs were as 

 big as wax 

 moths, the bee- 

 keeper would 

 know as soon as 

 he opened a 

 hive, that his 

 bees had Ameri- 

 can foul brood. 

 Then he would stop right there to take pre- 

 cautions against spreading the disease to his 

 other colonies. But germs are mighty small 

 things. Consequently, the beekeeper, par- 

 ticularly the man inexperienced in Ameri- 

 can foul brood, is frequently caught with 

 this disease of several months' standing, 

 scattered throughout his apiary. 



If I should find in going over my bees 

 that a colony showed a single dead larva 

 tlifit looked like one dead from American 



