. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. SELT SUPPLIED t_ Moisture. - -Self- , SELF-VENTILATlNGi f'lease mention Bee Journal when ?writing took some sweet clover hay out in cow yard, where there were three head, and threw the hay down to the cattle. Two head ate the hay the same as if it had been red clover, while one cow I had bought in Octo- ber would not even taste it or try to eat it. Sweet clover mown down and fed to cat- tle when about two feet tall, grown on good soil, was eaten readily last summer here at our place. Now a pointer to anyone short of pasture: Teach
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. SELT SUPPLIED t_ Moisture. - -Self- , SELF-VENTILATlNGi f'lease mention Bee Journal when ?writing took some sweet clover hay out in cow yard, where there were three head, and threw the hay down to the cattle. Two head ate the hay the same as if it had been red clover, while one cow I had bought in Octo- ber would not even taste it or try to eat it. Sweet clover mown down and fed to cat- tle when about two feet tall, grown on good soil, was eaten readily last summer here at our place. Now a pointer to anyone short of pasture: Teach cattle to eat sweet clover, then go on the highway or elsewhere and cut a lot of it, load on the wagon, and drive into a pasture field and scatter it rather thinly over the ground, and let the cattle help themselves. Two or three years ago we began putting up our honey in raised-cover tin pails, and let most of it candy, then put it on the market to be mostly sold on commission, and what was sold for cash was sold with the understanding that if the grocerymen could not dispose of it for a fair profit I was to take it out of the store and return the cash, which I did. But .since Dadant's sell all their honey when granulated, I was determined our ripe, rich honey should go the same way, and the consequence is we now have a good trade built up on honey in the granulated form. Outside of what we put up in one- pound bottles, it is not liquefied to satisfy any one's whims. Last fall we put up (JOO pounds of honey in common quart fruit-cans, with a large, suitable label, which for cheapness are just the thing, for they sell well. Fourteen years ago in the spring we be- gan beekeeping in a small way (according to the books), and to this date we have taken off 115,303 pounds of honey, about -,; being extracted, and find, by keeping a careful record, we have taken off an aver- age of 37 pounds per colony for the 14 years. We have a poor locality for bees, haven't we? C. A. Bunch. Marsha
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