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and fill in with straw all you can get in and nail the top on. You 

 will have a spring bed all around the jar. Do not try paper or 

 shavings in place of straw ; a box of straw will stand a lot of smash- 

 ing before it will lose its springiness. 



The jars I use are made by Smalley, Kivlan & Onthank, Boston, 

 Mass., and are a very nice jar. Please give this package a trial, 

 keeping about the same ratio between your jar and box as I use 

 and I think you will have no trouble. 



Sweet Clover for Stock Feeding 



EARL F. TOWNSEND, Milford, Michigan 



A Comparison to Corn Fodder When Fed Milch Cows 



I have had some personal experience with Sweet Clover this 

 fall and I now know that stock will eat and relish it. One of my 

 neighbors told me that his horse would now leave a mess of oats 

 any time for Sweet Clover although at first refusing it and this 

 neighbor is a feed dealer, so naturally his horse would be well fed. 

 Our Jersey cow at first refused it but gradually began to eat it and 

 when I was about out of it I found she preferred it to corn fodder 

 and I also discovered that when fed corn fodder after being on Sweet 

 Clover hay she dropped about 3 quarts per day off her milk, just 

 think what this means. 6 pounds per day for 300 days, the aver- 

 age milking period, equals 1800 pounds of milk at 6 cents per quart 

 $108.00 more per year per cow, or at $1.75 per 100 which is what 

 farmers get in shipping to the city, it would amount to $63.00 and 

 ;this astonishing amount just being the difference in favor of 

 Sweet Clover hay over corn fodder, other feeds, grain, being the 

 same and Sweet Clover hay being the equal, ton for ton, of wheat 

 bran in feeding value according to U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture analysis, and while growing Sweet Clover we are greatly 

 enriching our land. 



Eat More Honey-Then Keep More Bees 



GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, Redkey, Ind. 



Honey is the best, most healthful sweet known. Every bee- 

 keeper knows this, and the public also knows it in a vague sort of 

 way, but honey actually takes a back seat in amount sold, and price 

 when compared with other sweets in the open market. And why is 

 this? All beekeepers realize that this is not the right condition, 



