THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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THIS AND THAT 



If an animal works for you or is of 

 value to you, you owe it good treat- 

 ment. If you do not pay the debt by 

 good care of it, you cheat a helpless 

 animal of its pa^^ 



Williamston, Mich., Feb. 27, 1914. 

 Bee-Keepers' Review, 

 North Star, Mich. 

 I enclose one dollar to be applied on 

 the Review debt. I like the present 

 regime regarding it and I hope the debt 

 will soon be wiped out. 



\'ery truly yours. 



John L. Sims. 



An Irish farmer was showing his 

 stock of bees to a Yankee, when the 

 latter sarcastically remarked : 



"Look here, boss; the darned bees in 

 this country are too small to be any 

 good. Why in America we've got 'em 

 as big as turkeys." 



"Begorrah," said the farmer, "they 

 must be devils intirely. But how do 

 they get into the hive?" 



"Wa'al, I guess." drawled the Yank, 

 "that's tlieir own business." — Farm and 

 Home, London. 



Attached as a post script to a letter 

 of recent date from Mr. L. W. Avant, 

 Atascosa, Texas, we read as follows : 



By the way, what would you think of 

 an extracting frame that enables us to 

 convert a 20 B two- frame extractor 

 (26" diam.) into a six-frame extractor 

 that requires no reversing of frames? 

 1 demonstrated the work of such an 

 extractor to a number of bee-keepers 

 a few days since. You will probably 

 hear more of this a little later. 



[One would hardly know what to 

 think about a frame that will do all 

 you claim for it without further ex- 

 planation. — Ed.] 



Glidden, Iowa, March 2, 1914. 

 Editor Review : — My bees are winter- 

 ing fine; all in the cellar (120). I har- 

 vested 12,000 lbs. last year from 95 col- 

 onies. My honey is all sold with an 

 automobile. 



Yours respectfully, 



W. W. Lester. 



Small Yellow Sweet Clover. 

 An Indiana correspondent writes: 

 "I can purchase melilotus indica for 

 $6 per 100 pounds. Would this be of 

 value to use in a pasture seeding? 

 How would it be to sow with oats for 

 plowing under in the fall? Would it 

 be of value to sow in corn with rape 

 at the last cultivation, when the corn 

 is to be hogged down? How mucli 

 growth would melilotus alba probably 

 make plowed under with oats in the 

 fall? How does melilotus alba com- 

 port with red clover in getting a 

 stand?" 



The melilotus indica, or small yellow 

 sweet clover, is an annual which grows 

 only a foot or two high. From what we 

 have seen of it in the corn belt, this 

 plant is practically worthless. It would 

 be of some value to seed with oats for 

 plowing under in the fall, but the com- 

 mon white sweet clover, or melilotus 

 alba, would almost certainly be more 

 satisfactory, even though the seed prov- 

 ed to be much more expensive. Ordi- 

 iiary white sweet clover seeded witli 

 oats in the spring, will in a favorable 

 season grow high enough by fall to 

 make a hay crop of one or two tons. 

 The amount of growth, however, de- 

 pends upon the season, the richness of 

 the soil, and the thickness of the oat 

 seeding. It should be as easy to get a 

 stand of white sweet clover as of red 

 clover, provided the sweet clover seed 

 used is of as good quality as the red 

 clover seed. Unfortunately, there has 

 been much poor quality sweet clover 

 seed on the market. — Wallace Farmer. 



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Those wanting to try those gallon 

 packages to mail direct to their cus- 

 tomers should order them early, as we 

 anticipate a large demand for them. 

 Shipped from Detroit, Mich., at $11.00 

 per 100, crated, 50 in a crate, to go by 

 freight. Address 



National Bee-Keepers' Assn., 

 Northstar, Mich. 



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