. Gleanings in bee culture. ; butneither of these generally jit-lds more thanthe bees need to carry on brood-rearing prop-erly. After fruit-bloom we have a period dur-ing which little or no honey ii gathered, last-ing from fifteen days to three weeks, no mat-ter what the weather is, as there are no hon-ey producing flowers in bloom at that the middle of June the white cloveropens sufiiciently for the bees to begin storingfrom that, where white clover is abundant. But our land is kept so constantly underthe plow that we have little here. You are right in this, and so we do notcalcula
. Gleanings in bee culture. ; butneither of these generally jit-lds more thanthe bees need to carry on brood-rearing prop-erly. After fruit-bloom we have a period dur-ing which little or no honey ii gathered, last-ing from fifteen days to three weeks, no mat-ter what the weather is, as there are no hon-ey producing flowers in bloom at that the middle of June the white cloveropens sufiiciently for the bees to begin storingfrom that, where white clover is abundant. But our land is kept so constantly underthe plow that we have little here. You are right in this, and so we do notcalculate much on white clover for basswood yields honey (or nectar) inlarge quantities, as a rule, and for this we cal-culate and plan, and at the opening of bass-wood is the time to use the dummies, as wetalked about. Whew ! Is that nine the clock is strik-ing? How short the evening has been! Itold Mrs. Jones I would be home before nine,and I must be going. Good night. The winter thus far has been ALSIKE AND OTHER CLOVERS IN WISCONSIN;ALSO SOMETHING ABOUT PROPOLIS. 3/r. Root: —Since the clover symposiumwas published I have received a number of in-quiries regarding the alsike, two of them fromOregon. I am pleased to see so much interestin this the best of the clover family. Our second crop (after-growth) here inNorthern Wisconsin this season made a heavierhay crop than the first crop, the weather be-ing more favorable the latter part of the bees worked diligently on the second cropfrom Aug. 1 until the alsike was harvested thelatter part of September. No other plantyields nectar for so long a time, except, per-haps, sweet clover. We sometimes get asplendid catch of clover by sowing in August,as A. I. Root has written of the Traverse re-gion. I have some sown Sept. 12 that appearsto be still growing under six inches of snow ;but there is no frost in the ground. We often read in the bee-journals of largeyields of honey in different sections
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