. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. 406 PASTURAGE AND OVEBSTOCKIXU. If cut early to be used as forage, it blooms later than white clover and till frost. It is a biennial. The yellow or offleinal sweet clover is an annual and yields considerable honey also. (Fig. 162.). Pig. 161. SWEET CLOVEE. Melilotus Alba. (From Vilmorin-Andrieux, Paris.) The different varieties of smart-weeds (Persicaria), golden- rod, buctn'heat, asters, iron-weed, Spanish-needles in low lands and marshy places, give a very abundant honey-crop in the latter part of the Summer. They form the bulk of what is called


. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. 406 PASTURAGE AND OVEBSTOCKIXU. If cut early to be used as forage, it blooms later than white clover and till frost. It is a biennial. The yellow or offleinal sweet clover is an annual and yields considerable honey also. (Fig. 162.). Pig. 161. SWEET CLOVEE. Melilotus Alba. (From Vilmorin-Andrieux, Paris.) The different varieties of smart-weeds (Persicaria), golden- rod, buctn'heat, asters, iron-weed, Spanish-needles in low lands and marshy places, give a very abundant honey-crop in the latter part of the Summer. They form the bulk of what is called the "Fall crop" in this Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, Charles, 1817-1902; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. : Dadant


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