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built up, and pood crops are now being- 
raised largely thru the use of lime and 
the growing of clover. 
Extension men from the agricultural 
colleges are now preaching the doctrine of 
liming the soil. County agents and farm 
bureaus are not only telling farmers that 
it pays to lime the soil, but demonstrations 
are being made on farms here and there 
to show the great value of lime. As a re¬ 
sult of all this, great areas in eastern Ohio 
and parts of New York and Pennsylvania, 
these regions alsike clover has already been 
introduced and when once it gets into a 
locality it stays, if conditions are at all 
suitable, springing up in meadows, along 
roadsides and in fence corners. 
Beekeepers in these regions will do -well 
to find out where the most lime is being- 
used by the farmers, as a guide in locating 
out-apiaries, for where farmers are using 
a ton or more of ground limestone to the 
acre, beekeeping should flourish, if other 
conditions are at all favorable. 
White clover blossom—first stage. 
outside of the buckwheat region, which 
were formerly poor territory for beekeep¬ 
ing', are now becoming good beekeeping- 
territory on account of the return of the 
clovers. The practice of liming the soil 
spreads from farm to farm, as neighbor¬ 
ing farmers become convinced that it pays, 
until large areas of good clover territory 
spread from these centers where liming 
was begun several years ago. in most of 
WHITE CLOVER (Trifolium repens 
L.).—Tn the central and eastern States no 
other honey plant is so universally known 
as white clover, and white clover honey is 
the honey par excellence —the honey with 
which all other honeys are compared. It 
is a delicious white honey of the finest 
quality. While not. so thick and heavy as 
goldenrod nor so pronounced in flavor as 
buckwheat or basswood, it yet possesses 
