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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



FOR SALE— 100 second hand 8 and 

 9 frame hive bodies at 20c each. Write 

 for description. C, D. TOWNSEND, 

 Stoclibridge, Mich. 



WANT TO SEND YOU our catalogue 

 and price list of behives and fixtures. 

 They are nice and cheap. WHITE MFG. 

 CO., Greenvile, Tex. 



WANTED— S. C. B. Leghorns, Pul- 

 lets and. Cockrels and other varieties 

 good for laying. Brecliel Brothers, Lewis 

 Ave., West Toledo, Ohio. 



We have for sale at Piano, III. 100 

 lbs of unhulled White Sweet Clover 

 Seed that we can sell for 14 cents per 

 lb., in 50 lb. lots or more. Address The 

 Bee-Keepers' Review, North&tar. Mich. 



FOR SALE — Two dozen mailing cases 

 bottles and corks, for mailing samples 

 of honey, sold to members for an 

 even dollar. They weigh four pounds 

 and are packed to go by parcel post. 

 Your postmaster can tell you how much 

 to include for postage from Lowell, 

 Mass. Larger quantities at correspond- 

 ingly less price to go by freight or ex- 

 press. Say how many you can use. Ad- 

 dress THE BEE-KEEPERS' RPJVIEW, 

 Northstar, Michigan. 



Gather In the White Sweet Clover Seed 



Those who have had experience tell 

 us that it is wonderful how well 

 white sweet clover yields seed. We were 

 wondering if there were not many of 

 our members who live in a locality 

 where sweet clover seed can be har- 

 vested at a profit. 



The very best seed is cut and thrash- 

 ed by hand, then run through a fan- 

 ning mill. This is the method that 

 produces the unhulled variety, which is 

 usually free from weed seed or foreign 

 matter. 



LABELS FOR HONEY— According to 

 the interstate commerce ruling, honey 

 put up for retail trade since September 

 3rd. MUST contain a net weight label. 

 The little label shown here is one inch 

 by two inches and is gummed all ready 

 to stick to the section, or jar, as the 

 case maye be. The reading can be 

 changed to suit each individual need 

 wittiOML c'lv chaige. Tlie figures in- 

 dicative of the number of ounces can 

 be left blank, and the amount written 

 in with a pen, if so desired. 2000, one 

 by two inch, net weight, gummed La- 

 bels for only a dollar, postpaid. Ad- 

 dress the Bee-Keepers' Review, North- 

 Star, Michigan. 



This Honey produced by 



HOMER G. SMITH 

 Parkville, Mich. 



It contains 14 ounces of HONEY 

 exclusive of wood. 



a. m. when it was 52 degrees. 

 (British Bee Journal 1909 p. 

 464). Moist air with slow evapora- 

 tion seems to be necessary for a 

 good gathering from heather. On 

 the other hand alfalfa seems to 

 need a very dry air and also con- 

 siderable heat. It produces no honey 

 in England. I may here remark that 

 the bees at the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm at Ottawa declined to 

 work to any extent on a field of 

 buckwheat in which owing to 

 drought the nectar was drying up, 

 though it glistened in the flowers 

 and could be tasted. 



Rainfall and temperature vary 

 from day to day and from season 

 to season in almost every place but 

 there are a number of unchanging 

 conditions peculiar to certain local- 

 ities that greatly affect not only 

 the abundance but also the quality 

 of the nectar secreted. Tliese are 

 differences in soil, subsoil, drain- 

 age, altitude, latitude, nature of 

 vegetation as regards woodland or 

 prairie lie of the land as regards 

 sunshine and exposure, etc. Usually 

 where the plant grows and flowers 

 best, excluding rank growth, w^e 

 shall find that it secretes most nec- 

 tar. But there are exceptions, and 

 the combinations of conditions that 

 produce the best results in different 

 regions are puzzling- and some- 

 times even paradoxical. 



For instance, in England, heather 

 requires, in order to yield well, 

 not only a peaty surface soil, but a 

 suitable subsoil. In one region near 

 the northeast coast whinstone sub- 

 soil is considered to be of no value 

 for honey; though the heather 

 grows well and flowers profusely 

 on it, and the bees are sent to the 

 more distant moors that have a 

 granite subsoil, whereas in the west 

 where the climate is milder and 

 moister, whinstone is found to yield 

 excellent results. (See Sitwell's 

 paper in the Brit. Bee Journal 1912 

 p. 133). 



Soils and subsoils have a great 

 effect on honey yield. In the major- 

 ity of instances, perhaps all, the 

 soil or subsoil that produces best 

 results is the one that is best 

 adapted to the plants from a seed 

 producing standpoint. Dr. Malte says 

 that in Central Ontario certain 

 gravelly-clay soils rich in lime are 

 especially well adapted to Alsike 

 Clover, (Trefolium hybridum). We 



