354 White, Alsike atid 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- 

 ai'ists 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 is sown. As Alsike seeds itself each year, and so 

 lasts much longer than red clo\-er, I think it pays well to mix 



Fig. 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 \ery 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 

 ( l"ig. 156) and Melilotus alba, are well named.. They 



