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ground when it had started from the seed and was nearly a foot 
high, and that finished it. 
Clover, White. — Q. What kind of clover is the best for bees? ' 
(Iowa.) 
A. In Iowa, probably, all things considered, no clover is 
more valuable than the common white clover. Very likely you 
have that without any sowing. If you want to sow any besides, 
try sweet clover, both the white and yellow variety. It blooms 
later than white clover. 
Q. What time of the year does white clover bloom in this 
state? (Illinois.) 
A. In the northern tier of counties it opens its first blossoms 
in the last of May or first of June, and earlier as you go south. 
Clustering Out (See Hanging Out.) 
Cockroaches. — Q. What can I do for roaches? They bother 
the bees by getting in the brood-chambers, on sections, and all 
over the inside of the hive. 
A. I . didn’t suppose cockroaches would do any particular 
harm in a hive where there are bees. You can poison them with 
some of the special poisons sold for that purpose, or with any 
other poison, only you musn’t poison the bees. Put the poison 
between little boards only one-eighth of an inch apart, or in some 
vessel with a one-eighth inch entrance. 
Colony. — Q. How many bees are estimated to be in a medium 
populous colony? 
A. At a rough estimate, perhaps 30,000. 
Q. What would you call a good colony? 
A. A colony that, in early spring, has brood in five frames, 
Langstroth size (1 7%x9]/i), each frame being three-quarters or 
more filled with brood, would be a fairly good colony; with six 
or seven frames of brood it would be a very good colony. 
Color of Bees. — Q. What causes such a great diversity in color 
among the individual bees and also among the colonies in general 
whose queens are a mother and her daughters? 
A. If you have a pure Italian queen, her worker progeny all 
having the same markings, and from her rear a young queen, and 
this young queen mates with a pure Italian drone, you may ex- 
pect to find the same markings in the worker progeny of the 
young queen as are found in the worker progeny of her mother. 
But if this young queen mates with a black drone, then you will 
find the worker progeny different, some of it looking like black 
