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For a Succession, 



the following will be found most serviceable. Trifolium incarna- 

 tum is an excellent honey plant used for early greenmeat, flowering 

 generally in May, but can be sown to give a good succession. 

 White or Dutch clover would follow at isth of June till first week 

 of July. Alsike cut for greenmeat just before it would flower will 

 then follow white, which will keep up the succession till Melilot 

 is in full flower at end of July, the latter remaining in bloom as 

 . late as desirable. 



Late Forage Undesirable. 



While we can hardly plant anything that will come in too 

 early, it must be distinctly understood that nothing should entice 

 the bees to work one day later than the isth of September. 

 Therefore if you have Melilot or any other large crop flowering 

 at that date, do not delay, but cut it down. Bees need at least 

 six weeks to regain lost numbers after winter is past; they require 

 just as much time to settle down quietly before the cold season 

 comes on. 



Cultivation. 



It will be understood that most of the above clover crops, etc., 

 are sown over corn in the spring, the plant being well established by 

 the time the same is harvested and having the ground all to itself 

 the second year. As to manure, that question is left to the 

 reader to feed his crops as he will, remembering that what is 

 worth doing at all is worth doing well. 



Sanfoin is an excellent plant on chalk soils, giving two crops 

 yearly, as also will several of the clovers if treated liberally. 

 Yellow trefoil or hop clover should be mixed with clover and 

 sanfoin to make a good first crop. After the first mowing the 

 trefoil does not again appear, but the main crop then branches 

 out and fuUy covers the ground. 



