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least and I can readily understand that a 

 person accustomed to buckwheat would 

 find the light and delicately flavored 

 clover rather insipid. 



WhUe the buckwheat yields tremendous 

 amounts of nectar I would hardly advise 

 any one to plant it with the sole aim of 

 securing the honey crop. In sections 

 where it can be grown for grain the bee- 

 keepers reap the incidental harvest of the 

 honey. This process might easily be re- 

 versed by planting the grain for the bene- 

 fit of the bees and considering the grain 

 as incidental to the honey produced. In 

 any event I would not give the impression 

 that small acreages would have any in- 

 fluence on the resulting crop. The grain 

 is not grown in my own part of the coun- 

 try, but one year we planted about five 

 acres in a part of the orchard to act as a 

 winter cover. It bloomed heavily and the 

 bees worked on it but I never saw any 

 surplus in the supers. 



Related to the buckwheat is the hearts- 



