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drouth, so that it may be depended upon 

 better than most plants in a dry season. 



Some say it is a valuable fodder-plant; 

 others say it is worthless. Perhaps it is 

 more generally liked in the South than 

 the North for pasturage. There are 

 places in the South where it is valued 

 for hay. 



If a cow or a horse which had never 

 before seen sweet clover, should be 

 turned into a field where it was growing, 

 you would find them touching it very 

 lightly, if at all. Stock must learn to 

 like it. But they may eat the hay in 

 preference to the green plant. Very 

 likely you can only find out by trial 

 whether it will be of value to you for 

 pasturage or hay. But keep in mind 

 that your stock must get acquainted 

 with it. 



As a weed, it does not spread rapidly, 

 indeed very slowly. It is a biennial, 

 and if kept cut down for two seasons, 

 below all branches, so as not to go to 

 seed, that will end it, for the second sea- 

 son it dies, root and branch. As a weed 

 along the roadside, it is perhaps hated 

 worse than any other. Some think this 

 arises from the fact that other weeds 

 are impartial, while sweet clover is a 

 benefit to bee-keepers, and the public 

 are envious of anything that may benefit 

 other than themselves. Possibly, how- 

 ever, the ground for the general antip- 

 athy lies in the fact that on the road- 

 side, no matter how hard or poor the 

 soil, the sweet clover makes its most 

 vigorous growth, and a mass of it on the 

 roadside is not the most pleasant thing 

 to drive through after it has attained a 

 height of six feet, and the stalks have 

 become coarse and stiff. 



■Wintering — Best AU-Purpose Hive. 



1. I have five colonies of bees all in 

 box-hives and would like to get advice 

 as to their winter welfare. They seem 

 to have plenty of honey in store. 2. 

 Which will be the best hive to adopt 

 neyt year, to produce comb honey? Also 

 the best for extracted honey ? L. G. 



Walla Walla, Wash. 



Answers — 1. You do not mention any 

 particular in which you desire advice as 

 to the wintering of your bees, and the 

 probability is that they are all right as 

 you have them. In any case it will be 

 well to inform yourself generally on the 

 wintering problem by reading up in one 

 or more of the text-books on bee-culture. 

 Don't lose sight of the fact that what is 

 best for one place is not best for an- 

 other. Consider the peculiarities of 



your own climate and act accordingly. 

 Much may be gained by learning the 

 practice of others situated near you, to- 

 gether with the success attending their 

 practice. 



2. Perhaps the most popular hive at 

 present is the dovetail, with eight frames 

 for comb honey and ten for extracted. 

 Any hive, however, with movable frames 

 will be better than a box-hive, providing 

 you intend to handle the frames. Aside 

 from the advantage in handling the 

 frames, a movable-comb hive is no bet- 

 ter than a box-hive. There have been 

 cases where bees have been transferred 

 from box to frame hives with no thought 

 of any change in their treatment, but 

 merely with the belief that bees would 

 do better in movable frames. Such ex- 

 pectation is sure to be disappointed. If 

 box-hive treatment is to be practiced, 

 then the box-hive is best. 



CO!«VENTIOW DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1893. 



Dec, 19,20.— Northern Illinois, at Rockford. 111. 

 B. Kennedy, Sec., New Milford, 111. 



Dec. 28, 29.— Kansas, at Ottawa, Kans. 



J. R. Barnhard, Sec., Ottawa, Kans. 

 1894. 

 Jan. 2, 3.— Michigan State, at Flint, Mich. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec, Flint, Mich. 



Jan. 23, 24.— Nebraska State, at York, Nebr. 

 L. D. Stilson, Sec, York, Nebr. 



Jan. 24, 25.— Vermont, at Burlington, Vt. 



H. W. Scott, Sec. Barre, Vt. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — Thk Editor. 



North American Bee-I^eepers' Association 



Pres.— Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph, Mo. 



Vice-Pres.— O. L. Hershiser Buffalo, N. Y. 



Secretary- Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York.. .Chicago, Ills. 



XTational Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. B. L. Taylor. .Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 

 147 South W^estern Avenue. 



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