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for March, 1885, page 161 : — "As a forage-plant it has 

 no superior, producing a large flow of very rich milk. 

 June 15th, when I shut the stock out of the Alsike, I 

 allowed them to run in a field of red clover that was just 

 coming into blossom, and at the end of the third day the 

 five cows had shrunk their milk to the amount of 9 quarts 

 to the milking. Again in October, to test it further for 

 feed, as there was quite a growth of leaves on the ground, 

 I again allowed the cows in the field. You may judge of 

 my surprise, when I found, at the end of a week, they 

 had made a gain of 10 quarts to the milking. 



Does Artificial Pasturage Pay? 



A remarkable letter appeared in "Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture" for July iSth, 1902, from Dr. Gandy, who appears 

 to have made a financial success of planting for bees. He 

 says : " I give herewith some ideas obtained during my 

 30 years' experience as a bee-keeper, the last 17 of which 

 I have handled them as a commercial pursuit, keeping 

 during this time from 500 to 3,000 colonies, 100 of them 

 being in my home apiary. ... 1 claim by my method 

 of handling, of which I can describe only some of the 

 principal features, bees can be made to produce double 

 the ordinary surplus and perhaps more. I assume that 

 the reader is a bee-keeper who has plenty of nectar- 

 secreting plants in his neighbourhood, as any section can 

 be made a good place for bees at an expense of 60 dols. 

 for catnip and sweet clover seed, and this sum is less than 

 the profit I derived from a single colony last year. Much 

 of this increase is attributable to the plants ; but I am 

 confident that my particular methods helped largely to 

 bring about the greater yield. 



" When T started bee-keeping on a large scale my 

 neighbour bee-keepers did not average a surplus yield of 



