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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



DR. BURTON N. GATES, Amherst, 

 Mass., reelected piesidert of National 

 at Denver February, 1915. 



and saturated the coatinsr over the 

 germ so as to secure excellent ger- 

 mination early in the spring. By this 

 means many thousand acres of aban- 

 doned lands were redeemed and th( 

 soil built up and enriched so as tc 

 yield their usual harvests of corn anc 

 tobacco. 



During the process of regeneratioi 

 the farmers occupying these poc 

 lands were badly in need of forag' 

 for their stock, and set about to makt 

 further uses of sweet clover. Thej 

 found it afforded abundant pasturage 

 of high nutritive value, and was read- 

 ily eaten by all kinds of stock. It fur- 

 nishes more grazing than the best of 

 blue grass pastures, comes very early 

 in the spring and is the last green 

 vestige in the pasture when the snow 

 flies in the late autumn. These farm- 

 ers next tried it for hay and with 

 equal success. It was found to be 

 as good hay as alfalfa if cut before 

 growing large and coarse, and even 

 the coarse stems are cleaned up by 

 the stock. 



When the value and usefulness of 



sweet clover had thus been proven to 

 the farmers of these northern Ken- 

 tucky counties by their own experi- 

 ences with it, they began sowing it 

 more generally, and now it constitutes 

 the principal pasturage, and produces 

 a large part of the farm's hay crop. 

 In one of these counties there are 

 three creameries in successful opera- 

 tion furnishing milk and cream to the 

 Cincinnati market from cows grazed 

 en sweet clover in the summer and 

 fed largely on sweet clover hay in 

 winter. The price of land advanced 

 rapidly on account of its improved 

 condition and productiveness, and also 

 on account of the practicability of us- 

 ing sweet clover on lands that had 

 not yet felt the magic of this remark- 

 able clover. Beekeepers took advan- 

 tage of the changed conditions and 

 built up their apiaries. Farmers en- 

 .gaged in beekeeping who had not been 

 interested before and professional bee- 

 keepers moved into these counties 

 from distant localities, each bringing 

 with them hundreds of colonies of 



F)RANK C. PELLETT, Atlantic, Iowa. 

 Re-elected vice president of the Na- 

 tional at Denver, February, 1915. 



