. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 52 AiMERICAN BEE JOURNAL February white clover. It is interesting and encouraging to note, however, that the farmers of this area are sowing an increasingly large acreage in al- sike clover every year, either alone or, more often, with the red clover, and for that reason the honey-flows are gaining in amount pretty steadily of late years. White clover alone in this region is not dependable. If the farmers of the section named ever get to sowing alsike clover for seed, as they are doing in western Ohio, for example, the beemen there will find they are
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 52 AiMERICAN BEE JOURNAL February white clover. It is interesting and encouraging to note, however, that the farmers of this area are sowing an increasingly large acreage in al- sike clover every year, either alone or, more often, with the red clover, and for that reason the honey-flows are gaining in amount pretty steadily of late years. White clover alone in this region is not dependable. If the farmers of the section named ever get to sowing alsike clover for seed, as they are doing in western Ohio, for example, the beemen there will find they are located in one of the very best parts of Indiana. Along the east- ern side of the region white sweet clover is decidedly increasing, both sown and as a volunteer, and the writer has bought considerable honey from beemen of that part, which has had more of sweet clover in it than j^^Ve Xn'K\\inc»^ white clover, though sold primarily as a white clover honey. Region 4; Best Sweet Clover Region The east portion o' the State is the part especially hopeful for honey from sweet clover, for in general, the soil is thin or gravelly and clayey in nature, broken in large portions, and often acid. This plant, with white clover about once in five years, makes about all that most of this section can count on for surplus honey, with the exception of a narrow strip near Wells county, where the good white clover belt overlays this region. Region 5—Locust While it is hardly fair to call locust a main source of surplus honey, it comes nearer to being that in south- ern Indiana than anywhere else in the United States. Locust (Robinia pseudacacia) in this part lof Indi- 1 ^ 7)nf\»-n-Q-;. KeT)t\ickv^ Principal honey regions of Indiana Region 1— —Kankakee Kiver marsh lands. Region 2—xxxxxxxxx—Best white clover and basswood. Region 3—oooooooooo—Fair white clover, with alsike and sweet clover increasing. Region 4—o-o-o-o-o-o—Best sweet clover. Region 6—vvvvvvvvv—Locust. Regio
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