. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 90 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. DR. BURTON N. GATES, Amherst, Mass., reelected piesidert of National at Denver February, 1915. and saturated the coatinsr over the germ so as to secure excellent ger- mination early in the spring. By this means many thousand acres of aban- doned lands were redeemed and th( soil built up and enriched so as tc yield their usual harvests of corn anc tobacco. During the process of regeneratioi the farmers occupying these poc lands were badly in need of forag' for their stock, and set about to makt further uses of sweet clover. The
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 90 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. DR. BURTON N. GATES, Amherst, Mass., reelected piesidert of National at Denver February, 1915. and saturated the coatinsr over the germ so as to secure excellent ger- mination early in the spring. By this means many thousand acres of aban- doned lands were redeemed and th( soil built up and enriched so as tc yield their usual harvests of corn anc tobacco. During the process of regeneratioi the farmers occupying these poc lands were badly in need of forag' for their stock, and set about to makt further uses of sweet clover. Thej found it afforded abundant pasturage of high nutritive value, and was read- ily eaten by all kinds of stock. It fur- nishes more grazing than the best of blue grass pastures, comes very early in the spring and is the last green vestige in the pasture when the snow flies in the late autumn. These farm- ers next tried it for hay and with equal success. It was found to be as good hay as alfalfa if cut before growing large and coarse, and even the coarse stems are cleaned up by the stock. When the value and usefulness of sweet clover had thus been proven to the farmers of these northern Ken- tucky counties by their own experi- ences with it, they began sowing it more generally, and now it constitutes the principal pasturage, and produces a large part of the farm's hay crop. In one of these counties there are three creameries in successful opera- tion furnishing milk and cream to the Cincinnati market from cows grazed en sweet clover in the summer and fed largely on sweet clover hay in winter. The price of land advanced rapidly on account of its improved condition and productiveness, and also on account of the practicability of us- ing sweet clover on lands that had not yet felt the magic of this remark- able clover. Beekeepers took advan- tage of the changed conditions and built up their apiaries. Farmers en- .gaged in beekeeping who had not been interested before and professiona
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