. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. iny:. THE AMERICAi*: BEE JOURNAL. 115 pasturage, followed for three years or more in one spot; we have had evidence of this, right at home, for years. Melilot may be made a useful plant. Mr. Chas. Peloquin, of Canada, a dairyman, has for years grown it for early pas- ture. He flnds that the second year's growth begins very early In the season, and that if the clover is cut when about knee high, it is very good feed for milch cows. He therefore cuts it in the beginning of May, when there is practically nothing as yet, in the way of green pasture, in th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. iny:. THE AMERICAi*: BEE JOURNAL. 115 pasturage, followed for three years or more in one spot; we have had evidence of this, right at home, for years. Melilot may be made a useful plant. Mr. Chas. Peloquin, of Canada, a dairyman, has for years grown it for early pas- ture. He flnds that the second year's growth begins very early In the season, and that if the clover is cut when about knee high, it is very good feed for milch cows. He therefore cuts it in the beginning of May, when there is practically nothing as yet, in the way of green pasture, in the Province of Quebec, and harvests a paying crop in this way, before it blooms aud gives his bees another paying crop. Why is it, then, that they are trying to pass, or are pass- ing, laws prohibiting the sowing of melilot? Because bee- keepers do not keep awake to their own interests. Our law- makers, I am sorry to notice, are not farmers, but lawyers, and they are easily influenced in matters lil^e this, and there are always some persons, (scarce though they may be) who are jealous of anything that may help the success of others. Hancock Co., III. Watering Bees—A Trough for the Purpose. Br JOHN G. COREY. This subject having been so fully discust at the late an- nual meeting of the North American Bee-Keepers' Association held at Lincoln, Nebr., it would appear useless to many to add anything of value to our fraternity. Bee-keepers, as a rule, exhaust a subject pretty effectually before dropping it. (See articles on size of hives, for example.) On the Pacific Coast we have very different conditions from those existing elsewhere. The air becomes very dry at with the watering-trough, and the mill was run an hour or so every day, which not only filled the trough, but overflowed quite a piece of ground around it. The amount of water used varied, I found from observations taken daily, and was gov- erned by atmospheric conditions, and ranged from 5 gallons to 25 daily. The capacity
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