354 White, Alsike and Sweet Clover. 
ing the season. I am sure that Alsike may furnish much 
more than this, and I believe the same is true of white. This 
forms excellent pasture and hay for cattle, sheep, etc., and 
may well be sown by the apiarist. It will often pay api- 
arists to furnish neighboring farmers with seed as an induce- 
ment to grow this excellent honey plant. Like white 
clover, it blooms all through June into July. Both of 
these should be sown early in spring with timothy, five or 
six pounds of seed to the acre, in the same manner that red 
clover seed issown. As Alsike seeds itself each year, and so 
lasts much longer than red clover, I think it pays well to mix 
Fic. 156. 
Melilot Clover, 
the seed, using about three pounds of Alsike clover seed and 
five or six of red clover. By cutting Alsike clover just as 
it commences to bloom, it may be made to come into blos- 
som the second time, so as just to fill the vacant space in 
August. This is a very important fact, and may well be 
acted upon. I have known Alsike clover to give a good 
harvest of nectar during a dry year, when white clover 
utterly failed. 
Sweet clover, yellow and white, Melilotus officinalis 
(Fig. 156) and Melilotus alba, are well named.. They 
