. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. eiO'PMltA£« 35tli Year. CHICAGO, ILL., MARCH 28, 1895. No. 13. Corjtributed /Vrticles^ On Jmportajit Apiarian Sut>Jeots> Importance of Sowing for Honey. BY W. J. CULLINAN. The time has come when people who pay no attention to bee-pasturage, can no longer expect to reap a rich harvest from their bees. Land is now so valuable in this section that every available acre is put under cultivation, except ocoasion-. Alslke Clover. ^VhUe Clover. ally a small plat that has been reserved for pasture, with here and there a few acres of meadow. But the pastu
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. eiO'PMltA£« 35tli Year. CHICAGO, ILL., MARCH 28, 1895. No. 13. Corjtributed /Vrticles^ On Jmportajit Apiarian Sut>Jeots> Importance of Sowing for Honey. BY W. J. CULLINAN. The time has come when people who pay no attention to bee-pasturage, can no longer expect to reap a rich harvest from their bees. Land is now so valuable in this section that every available acre is put under cultivation, except ocoasion-. Alslke Clover. ^VhUe Clover. ally a small plat that has been reserved for pasture, with here and there a few acres of meadow. But the pastures are grazed so closely as to afford even the persistent and low- growing white clover but little chance to bloom ; while the meadows abound in tame grasses—mostly timothy—and none of which are of much use to the bees. I have seen the time when white clover abounded on every hand, growing thickly along the roadsides and covering almost every foot of waste land; and I secured from that source alone, in 1889, about 3,800 pounds of choice honey from 100 colonies of bees, spring count. But several dry seasons in succession have almost exterminated it, so that now we find only diminutive patches here and there. As a consequence, our honey-crops have been very "diminutive" for several years. Well, the remedy for this—and the only remedy—is to sow seed. If you have only 50 colonies of bees, and you have the money, it will pay you to buy white clover seed and sow it along every roadside, on every common, and in every pasture where the owner will give you permission to sow it, within two miles of your apiary. And around gullies, on gravelly banks and in fence corners and on low bottom lands not cul- tivated, sow sweet clover, which is one of the best honey- plants grown in this country. If you own land, sow a portion of it in Alsike clover, and if you can get your neighboring land-owners to sow some also, do so, by all means. Furnish them the seed at half price, if
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