Gleanings in bee culture . e(J by Jocust trees. 646 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Fig. 1.—Combs of coluiiy with Isle of-Wij^lU bee disease forests have been pretty well cut the land is not cultivated, the locustshave taken possession of considerable land that has been cultivated or pas-tured is mostly covered with sweet sweet clover has been the farmers sal-vation here as in many other places. Itstops the washing-, or prevents it. It putsthe necessary luimus and nitrogen into theleached hillsides, and rejuvenates the clearing of the forests the naturalfert
Gleanings in bee culture . e(J by Jocust trees. 646 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Fig. 1.—Combs of coluiiy with Isle of-Wij^lU bee disease forests have been pretty well cut the land is not cultivated, the locustshave taken possession of considerable land that has been cultivated or pas-tured is mostly covered with sweet sweet clover has been the farmers sal-vation here as in many other places. Itstops the washing-, or prevents it. It putsthe necessary luimus and nitrogen into theleached hillsides, and rejuvenates the clearing of the forests the naturalfertility began to decline, and the hillsideswashed until there was almost no vegetationto cover their rocky sides. Then sweet clo-ver came and put new life into them. Bluegrass began to take root, and white cloverfollowed; and now those slopes to whichsweet clover first came are covered with abeautiful carpet of blue grass throughwhich peep millions of white-clover blos-soms. In addition, sweet clover, that nox-ious weed which has been fought Avithscythe and by legislation,
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