. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 362 plant; it' the season be wet, sweet clo- ver will blossom and grow and grow and blossom, and if dry, its bountiful and continuous yield of honey will well repay the slight trouble incurred in planting, and your bees be kept busy and happy all the season through. For three seasons have we watched and studied this plant with more than usual interest. In 1S7S we noticed our bees flying over the plentiful white clover bloom to reach the sweet clover; in 1879, with the ground white, as if cov- ered with a mantle of fleece, the bees still continued thei
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 362 plant; it' the season be wet, sweet clo- ver will blossom and grow and grow and blossom, and if dry, its bountiful and continuous yield of honey will well repay the slight trouble incurred in planting, and your bees be kept busy and happy all the season through. For three seasons have we watched and studied this plant with more than usual interest. In 1S7S we noticed our bees flying over the plentiful white clover bloom to reach the sweet clover; in 1879, with the ground white, as if cov- ered with a mantle of fleece, the bees still continued their flight till they reached the street sides and unculti- vated spots covered with sweet clover, where the beautiful, yellow emblems of industry reveled amid the profuse. Melilot Clover. swe3ts, and gathered their winter stores. This season, though we may now and then observe a solitary bee on white clover, when a clump or thicket of sweet clover is observed it seems fairly ani- mated with the bees in their eager quest for nectar. And it is no disparagement to white clover honey to say that honey from sweet clover is in every quality its equal, and perhaps in taste its superior. We do not believe there is a more hardy, reliable or better honey plant than sweet clover, for all climates and localities; and we think after a trial for three sea- sons the most skeptical will admit it does pay to plant for honey. Recipe for Candy.—Prof. Hasbrouck, in the Bee-Keepers'' Magazine, gives the following recipe for candy with which to provision queen cages : " Take a quantity of white sugar and add i| as much boiling water by meas- ure. Heat over a brisk fire stirring till it boils about a minute. Remove it from the fire and set the dish into a ba- sin of cold water, and stir briskly until it begins to get white and creamy with fine crystals. Now quickly pour into the cages. If it does not crystallize by stirring, there is too much water in it, and you will be obliged to put it back o
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