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inj; them, will eradicate it. As the peony 

 ill our garden sends up its stalks every 

 sprinji, so will there he a stool of catnip 

 each year in the fence corner back of the 

 barn, once a plant is established there. 

 It yields large quantities of seed, hut I 

 doubt the advisability of using good till- 

 able farm land for the cultivation of any 

 plant that yields honey alone. 



NOT Ml'CH SWEKT CL0VP:R. 



The only sweet clover that we saw was 

 an occasional patch by the roadside, not 

 enough to make any great difference in 

 the amount of bee pasturage. 



near large patches of buckbush, store 

 large quantities of honey from it. 



The patch that we saw occcupied per- 

 haps 80 or 100 acres. It was on rough 

 ground. The seed had been scattered by 

 one of the doctor's tenants. Once estab- 

 lished, buckbush is very difficult of erad- 

 ication. 



HONEY RESOURCES AT HOMBOLDT. 



Humboldt is located in the Southeast- 

 ern corner of Nebraska, which is really 

 the garden of the State. The farms are 

 under a fine state of cultivation, and be- 

 ing largely fenced with hedges, present 



.\ I'ATCH iM 



IN THJ-. OKCIIAKI) OX OXK OF DR. G.A.NDY'S F.'VRMS. 



HICKBLSH HAS (".AINKD .\ GOOD 



FOOTHOLD 



Of all the plants with which tlie Dr 

 has experimented, it seems to me ihnt he 

 has tieen as successful willi a plant cdled 

 V)uckbush, as he has with anything. 

 Someway this plant reminds me of prick- 

 ly ash, although it not .so large a bush as 

 prickly a.sh It is now loaded with small 

 berries that remain on all winter. It 

 blossoms in the spring, and the Dr. sa3s 

 that some of his bees, that are located 



a picturesque appearance. Corn is the 

 main ciop but wheat is also raised quite 

 extensively. In former years spring 

 wheat was raised and this favored the 

 growth of heartsease from which good 

 crops of hone}- were secured, but the sub- 

 stitution of winter wheat has greatly les- 

 sened the growth of heartsease. There is 

 quite a little white clover, with some I)a.ss- 

 wood along the streams. Wild cucum- 

 ber is also abundant along the streams. 

 Taken all in all the doctor's home apiaries 

 are well located, but, notwithstanding all 



