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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. Thus in preparing for Melilot clover, put 

 in borage seed at the same season, the latter flowering the 

 first year. Mow the whole in July when the clover is getting 

 rather long, and a second crop of borage will come on, while 

 the clover will shoot out stronger. ' Cut all again in Septem- 

 ber, and if harvested or used as ensilage, some use will be 

 found for the mixture as fodder. The second year, however, 

 the Melilot will be useless for feeding after it has blown, and 

 the growth will have been so rapid that little borage will be 

 seen ; but the latter will again come up quite thickly the third . 

 year, to be cut twice as before with the new Melilot plants. 



Again, when white clover is put down for bees, the ground . 

 can be filled with crocus bulbs, planted about six inches apart. 

 They thrive exceedingly well, and being very early, will be 

 found useful without in any way interfering with the clover, 

 which can be mown with the crocus grass in July, when a 

 second crop of clover follows ; thus we have three bee crops 

 yearly on the same ground, without further cultivation ; the 

 second crop of clover being allowed to seed the ground. The 

 wBite clover is particularly partial to road grit, and where the 

 sidings, &c., 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 seldonT seen 

 previously. A great advantage to be gained from continuous 

 t)loom is that the surplus may be removed at any time 

 Without exciting the bees to • rob, as is too frequently the case 

 JBS^hen the later harvest is taken at a time they have nothing 

 mqre to keep them employed. 



^Systematic Planting makes ProHts Certain. 



This branch of apiculture has been much neglected, but 

 bse-keeping as ajgr^ession can only become a certainty in 

 this country where systemHic planting is carried out. Indeed, 

 even in America the same statement would apply to most 



