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THE BEE-KEEPRRS' REVIEW. 



thing. Their whole penchant seems to 

 be that of trailing. We were given an 

 exhibition of their work. The doctor's 

 son started off down the road, and then 

 struck oflF across the fields, and finally 

 climbed a tree. Two hounds were then 

 taken out and put into leash, or harness. 

 When this was done they fairly trembled 

 with excitement. They were taken down 

 the road, allowed to smell of a handker- 

 chief that the young man had dropped, 

 then released, when away they went bay- 

 ing loudly. When the trail crossed where 

 some boys had been playing ball, they 

 had quite an argument, and came back, 

 several times, to some point where there 

 was no doubt, and picked up the trail 

 afresh. Finally they traced it out and 



point, as well as upon others. In that 

 article of his he described, or pictured, the 

 ideal bee-keeper, and told of his having 

 25 acres of sweet clover and the same of 

 catnip, but he did not say that he (Gandy ) 

 had any such fields. If he has any svicli 

 we did not see them. Along the hedges 

 we often saw small patches of catnip, and 

 at one of his farms, in the orchard, was a 

 patch three or four rods square. In our 

 three days of driving, I doubt if we saw 

 enough catnip to have made more than 

 one solid acre of plants. But the Dr. is 

 certainly taking steps to increase the acre- 

 age. He is saving and sowing the seed. 

 He showed us leases made with tenants 

 in which it was specified that a certain 

 number of acres of catnip and sweet clo- 



DR. candy's homk 



went on, locating him in the tree. Many 

 Western sheriffs keep these hounds for 

 tracking down criminals. 



THE MUCH-TAI.KED-OF-CATNIP. 



But to return to the matter of the cat- 

 nip, etc. The Dr. has no fields of catnip 

 or sweet clover such as the reader has con- 

 jured up from the reading of his article. 

 We had a frank talk with the Dr. on this 



ver must be sown each year, and if they 

 succeed in getting the seeding to catch, 

 and make a good growth, $50 extra is the 

 reward. 



If catnip is really a good honey plant, 

 it certainly has some qualities that com- 

 mend it to the bee keeper. For instance, 

 once it is established, it is there to stay 

 for years and years. Nothing short of 

 actual digging up the roots and destroy- 



