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ground when it had started from the seed and was nearly a toot 

 high, and that finished it. 



Clover, White.— Q. What kind of clover is the best for bees? 

 (Iowa.) 



A. In Iowa, probably, all things considered, no clover is 

 more valuable than the common white clover. Very likely you 

 have that without any sowing. If you want to sow any besides, 

 try sweet clover, both the white and yellow variety. It blooms 

 later than white clover. 



Q. What time of the year does white clover bloom in this 

 state? (Illinois.) 



A. In the northern tier of counties it opens its first blossoms 

 in the last of May or first of June, and earlier as you go south. 



Clustering Out (See Hanging Out.) 



Cockroaches. — Q. What can I do for roaches? They bother 

 the bees by getting in the brood-chambers, on sections, and all 

 over the inside of the hive. 



A. I didn't suppose cockroaches would do any particular 

 harm in a hive where there are bees. You can poison them with 

 some of the special poisons sold for that purpose, or with any 

 other poison, only you musn't poison the bees. Put the poison 

 between little boards only one-eighth of an inch apart, or in some 

 vessel with a one-eighth inch entrance. 



Colony. — Q. How many bees are estimated to be in a medium 

 populous colony? 



A. At a rough estimate, perhaps 30,000. 



Q. What would you call a good colonjf? 



A. A colony that, in early spring, has brood in five frames, 

 Langstroth size ^75/^x9%), each frame being three-quarters or 

 more filled with brood, would be a fairly good colony; with six 

 or seven frames of brood it would be a very good colony. 



Color of Bees. — (J. What causes such a great diversity in color 

 among the individual bees and also among the colonies in general 

 whose queens are a mother and her daughters? 



A. If you have a pure Italian queen, her worker progeny all 

 having the same markings, and from her rear a young queen, and 

 this young queen mate-- with a pure Italian drone, you may ex- 

 pect to find the same markings in the worker progeny of the 

 young queen as are found in the worker progeny of her mother. 

 But if this young queen mates with a black drone, then you will 

 find the W(jrker progeny different, ,'Tonie of it looking like black 



