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white. This forms excellent pasture and hay for cattle, 

 sheep, etc., and may well be sown by the apiarist. When pas- 

 tured the bloom is much prolonged. It will often pay apiarists 

 to furnish neighboring- farmers with seed as an inducement to 

 grow this excellent honey-plant. It will be easy to get all 

 farmers within two miles of the apiary to sow this seed, if we 

 sell it to them for six dollars per bushel of sixty pounds, when 

 the price is eight or nine dollars. This would be a wise plan. 



Fig. 216. 



Mammoth Bed Clover. — from, A. I. Soot Co. 



I/ike white clover, it blooms all through June and 

 into July. Both of these should be sown early in spring with 

 timothy, four or five pounds of seed to the acre, in the same 

 manner that red clover seed is sown. As Alsike seeds itself 

 each year, and so lasts much longer than red clover, I think it 

 pays well to mix the seed, using about three pounds of Alsike 

 clover seed and five or six of red clover. As Alsike clover is 

 visited freely by honey-bees the first growth of the season, 

 unlike red clover, it seeds bountifully. By cutting Alsike clover 



