THE BIOIO-KEEPERS* REVIEW 



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Editor Review: — I just read Mr. 

 Vollmer's suggestion, tliat we 

 cliange "Keep More Bees" to "Eat 

 More Honey." and your reply. 



I do not linow where Mr. Vollmer 

 lives nor how much honey he pro- 

 duces, but if a man like myself, 

 6 years old and a confirmed asth- 

 matic, hardly able, at times to clip 

 a queen, can, as I did this season 

 produce an average of a 00 pounds 

 of honey to the colony, extracted, 

 nnd sell the last pound November 

 1st, it seems others can do as 

 well, or very much better. 



I commenced the season with lit- 

 tle bunches of bees no bigger 

 than my fist, owing to a series 

 of abnormal winters and summers 

 but by nursing them and using 

 Chaff Hives, I had good colonies 

 the first week in June. However, I 

 had an abnormally long honey 

 flew, from May 25th until late in 

 August, in fact, it was September 

 before my bees would pay any at- 

 tention to honey lying around in 

 the yard. I have to thank Mother 

 Nature for the honey, and the 

 lucky choice of advertising matter 

 for the sales. 



I am located in a town of ONE 

 HUNDRED souls and some bodies. 

 Is Mr. Vollmer situated any worse 

 to sell a big crop? I averaged bet- 

 ter than 10c NET for my honey. 

 Next year the price will stiffen a 

 little. 



If the REVIEW was to be circu- 

 lated among the laity "Eat more 

 Hcney" would be all right, but in 

 the name of IMike why advertise 

 honey to the producers of it? What? 

 It does not look like good business 

 to me. Moreover, ''Keep More Bees" 

 has a sentimental place in the 

 REVIEW, besides being a mighty 

 practical saying. I say don't change 

 it^ 



So soon as I can get to print 

 some cards I shall send Mr. Vol- 

 mer some. I'll agree to sell, lo- 

 cally, any good crop of honey and 

 take my pay at the rate of one- 

 fourth of a cent a pound, if the 

 producer will follow my copy. Honey 

 can be advertised, LOCALLY, to 

 sell at a good price, but not by 

 putting "Eat More Honey" in a 

 magazine the consumer never sees. 

 Yours truly, 



DR. A. F. BONNEY. 



Seeding for Wet Pasture Land 



A South Dakota correspondent 

 writes: 



"I am thinking of sowing some 

 sweet clover in a slough or pasture 

 that has been tiled drained, and on 

 some other wild land that is a 

 little bluffy, along the creeks. I 

 thought that by seeding the sweet 

 clover I would get more pasture, 

 and that the root system would 

 help in the slough. I was thinking 

 of putting in the sweet clover with 

 a drill just as the frost is going 

 out. What do you think of my plan? 

 NV^hich kind of sweet clover do 

 you recommend, the yellow or the 

 white? Should we use hulled or un- 

 hulled seed? How many pounds do 

 you sow to the acre? On what kind 

 of land do you advise seeding 

 sweet clover? If you could advise 

 something better on this land, 

 please tell me." 



On the low land we suggest 

 that our correspondent drill in, 

 just as the frost is going out, an 

 acre seeding of about eight pounds 

 of hulled white sweet clover seed, 

 three pounds of alsike clover, three 

 pounds of red top, and three pounds 

 of timothy. Sweet clover and alsike 

 clover both stand wet land better 

 than red clover and alfalfa, but 

 neither of them will stand such 

 excessively wet soil as red top or 

 slough grass. Ordinarily it is best 

 to seed fifteen or twenty pounds of 

 hulled sweet clover seed to the 

 acre, but in the low wet pasture we 

 would not use nearly this much. If 

 the unhulled seed may be bought 

 cheaply, it may pay to buy it 

 rather than the hulled. But it must 

 be remembered that the unhulled 

 seed germinates much more slowly 

 much of it not coming till the sec- 

 ond year. 



On the bluff land we would ex- 

 pect the sweet clover to do rather 

 better than on the low land. We 

 would be inclined to use a mixture 

 of about eight pounds of sweet clov- 

 er, four pounds of red clover and 

 three pounds of mammoth clover. 

 Our correspondnet in the Eastern 

 South Dakota, where both red clov- 

 er and mammoth clover should do 

 well — Wallace Farmer. 



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 kindly ask your neighbor beekeep- 

 er to subscribe with you. 



