. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 20, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 457 this State classing it, we believe. We would sug-gest that the bee-keepers in and around Antioch get after their "commissioner" with a big- bunch of thistles and compel him to let sweet clover alone until he learns something- about its many values. Thursday, July 6, we took a bicycle ride some 30 miles northwest of Chicago, and the sweettlover was coming into bloom in immense quantities, and the bees were just roar- ing on it. But, actuall}', some ignoramuses who control the roads and the railroads in
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 20, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 457 this State classing it, we believe. We would sug-gest that the bee-keepers in and around Antioch get after their "commissioner" with a big- bunch of thistles and compel him to let sweet clover alone until he learns something- about its many values. Thursday, July 6, we took a bicycle ride some 30 miles northwest of Chicago, and the sweettlover was coming into bloom in immense quantities, and the bees were just roar- ing on it. But, actuall}', some ignoramuses who control the roads and the railroads in that region were mowing it down just as fast as they could. What a pity it was, to see all that fine stock feed and nectar for bees destroyed ! If it must be mowed, why not wait until September, or later ? Of course, by that time the seed will have matured and fallen ?on the ground to grow again, but what of that ? If sweet clover were not growing there, doubtless some miserable weed would be, and is it not much better to have the rich, fragrant, nectar-laden sweet clover along the roadsides than ragweeds and other kinds of noxious weeds? We do hope that our readers everywhere will inform themselves as to the varied values of sweet clover, and talk it up until its enemies cease to cut it down, and thus destroy one of the best plants our countrj' affords—for stock pas- turage, for bees, and, lastly, for the making of good roads, as Mr. Dibbern has shown. Apis Dorsata in the United States.—An editorial in Gleanings in Bee-Culture is headed, "Apis Dorsata Here at Medina at Last ; Giant Bees for ; The editor goes on to describe at length what beauties the5' are, each worker looking like a great, big yellow Italian queen, and after arousing to the highest notch the expectation of the would- be purchaser, he informs him that the bees will be sold, onlj' one worker to each purchaser, at 10 cents each, eac/i zvorkcr being in a little bottle of alcohol. Oh, Editor Ro
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