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Now the linn opened its myriads of flowers, and 

 the bees left the white clover for its superior attrac- 

 tions. They flew back and forth in a kind of quiet 

 delirium. I had read glowing accounts of the large 

 amounts of honey sometimes obtained from linn, 

 but the reality surpassed all my expectations. In 

 six days the supers were again ready to extract, and 

 yielded 2,485 pounds. 12 If linn flowers lasted through 

 the summer, they would make a bee keeper's para- 

 dise. Unfortunately they last only ten or twelve 

 days. Towards the last of their season they did 

 not yield so well. On the eleventh day after their 

 opening I observed that bees were working again 

 on white clover, so I extracted at once, in order to 

 keep the linn honey as far as possible by itself. 

 This time the yield was 1,505 pounds. 



The white clover again gave the bees a field in 

 which they worked with a passion of acquisitive- 

 ness. In eleven days more the season begun to 

 fail, the clover bloom was disappearing. Finally 

 on July 226. a hot sun and dry wind made the flow- 

 ers disappear as if by magic. Instead of the carpet 

 of white there was an array of innumerable brown 

 balls. I stood in the door of the shop, looked out 

 over the wide fields, and at the broad stretch of 

 forest, and then into the infinite depths of the sum- 

 mer sky, which seemed filled with the presence of 

 that Over Soul, that is everywhere the Life of all 



