92 A Modern Bee-Farm 
from it when the weather has been just right, following a 
dry time for the growth of the second crop, but should 
the plant have a favorable season for full and coarse 
development, the bees do nothing upon it, however fine 
the weather may be. A crop yielding only one year in 
four cannot be recommended. 
When growing plants for honey which have no further 
use, one must make the most of the land under cultivation. 
To permit the ground to be occupied by a single variety 
taking two years to arrive at maturity is sheer folly: and 
even with those flowering yearly something else must be 
growing at the same time. The white clover is particularly 
partial to road grit, and where the sidings can be secured, 
they will be found the most valuable fertilizer that can be 
obtained for the crop; often inducing a heavy growth 
where the plant was seldom seen previously. A great 
advantage to be gained from continuous bloom is that 
the surplus may be removed at any time without exciting 
the bees to rob, as is too frequently the case when the 
later harvest is taken at a time when they have nothing 
more to keep them employed. 
Systematic Planting makes Profits Certain. 
This branch of apiculture has been much _ neglected, 
but bee-keeping as a profession can only become a 
certainty in this country where systematic planting is 
carried out. Indeed, even in America the same statement 
would apply to most districts, as there is a frequent 
occurrence of poor honey seasons, whereas with heavy 
crops close at home it could be so arranged that a good 
surplus would be obtained every year; but with scattered 
crops it sometimes happens that the bees store little or 
nothing. 
In this country it is almost useless for any bee-keeper 
