. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 157 Now. it may happen that, where the clover is not in the best condition now. conditions will be good for a honey flow; and where conditions are most favorable now for a lack of or from too much moisture, it may cut the honey flow short, but taking- conditions as a whole, to have clover in a normal condition Nov. 1 is five points out of ten in securing a honey flow. In speaking of a normal condition for white clover, there are two conditions where clover is in a normal condition, one which occurs but about one year in five. It oc
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 157 Now. it may happen that, where the clover is not in the best condition now. conditions will be good for a honey flow; and where conditions are most favorable now for a lack of or from too much moisture, it may cut the honey flow short, but taking- conditions as a whole, to have clover in a normal condition Nov. 1 is five points out of ten in securing a honey flow. In speaking of a normal condition for white clover, there are two conditions where clover is in a normal condition, one which occurs but about one year in five. It occurred in my locality in my 17 years of bee keeping as follows: 1897, 1902. 1906 and 1910. At Dr. Miller's it occurred 1897. 190S, 1 90S and 1910. Now, as it will be two or three years before this condition can occur again it makes it for the two locations about one year in five as stated above. This condition is a crop of white clover, the greater part of which has started from the seed the year previous, and has covered the ground thoroughly with plants that are in the best condition that it is possible to put them in. These are the plants that, under normal con- dition, in the best of the white clover belt, will yield honey for three months. The other condition, which is also a normal one, but which at Dr. Miller's, or, in fact, all the best of the white clover belt, will not produce under the same climatic conditions more than half as much honey as the condition first mentioned. It is where these plants started from the seed in 1909, and have developed a greater part of their blossoms in 1910. Then these plants set new plants from their runners, and these new plants set new embryo blossoms that blossom next year, but the bloom period being about half as long the second year as the first. This will continue for a year or two. then they fall down fro n overcrowding or drouth. In my locality clover never fails from overcrowding. As I am on the extreme southern side of the whit
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