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OBSERVATIONS BY APIARISTS. 



FIG. 7. (Original.) Honey-bee on sweet clover. 

 From photograph. 



SAMUEL TEAFORD, Norton, Norton county. "Alfalfa clover is the 

 best honey plant for this part of the state. It grows best on bottom 

 lands, and produces most honey in seasons of moderate rainfall. The 

 worst difficulty met with is the man who keeps bees and puts his 

 honey on the market in a dirty, filthy condition, half capped, and no 

 attention paid to grading; who, if he cannot find ready sale, will sell 

 for anything offered him, to the great detriment of the man who is 

 careful to pl<ce on the market only a choice article, nicely cleaned 

 and graded. To the man who wants to keep bees, I would say, do 

 not buy but one or two stands of bees to start with ; get pure Italians, 

 in standard hives, with combs built on full sheets of foundation and 

 wired in frame ; would use full sheets of foundation, if had to pay one 

 dollar a pound for them. Then get a good text-book on bee-keeping, 

 and pay no attention to the man who tells you that bees do not pay, 



