. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 101 the brood, and have less bees the first of June than the}' did the first of May. We want bloom to fill in this space, so as to have the bees in prime condition to store surplus when alfalfa comes in bloom. The yellow sweet clover comes two weeks earlier than alfalfa; it grows in all kinds of soil; is a good forage for stock. If the seed was scattered throughout the country, we would soon have it in abundance—a blessing to the farmer and to the bee-keeper. The al- sike clover blooms at about the same time; is a wonderful honey
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 101 the brood, and have less bees the first of June than the}' did the first of May. We want bloom to fill in this space, so as to have the bees in prime condition to store surplus when alfalfa comes in bloom. The yellow sweet clover comes two weeks earlier than alfalfa; it grows in all kinds of soil; is a good forage for stock. If the seed was scattered throughout the country, we would soon have it in abundance—a blessing to the farmer and to the bee-keeper. The al- sike clover blooms at about the same time; is a wonderful honey plant and a great hay plant. When in Michigan a few years ago, I secured twenty-five pounds of the alsike seed. I found a farmer out near Lakewood who was go- ing to seed two pounds of alsike to the acre. Last season it bloomed. At first it looked as though nearly all alsike, but later on the alfalfa filled in and made a beautiful hay crop. The farmer told me he was offered $ per ton for the hay, when he was getting but $8 for the straight alfalfa. It has been a poor season to make experiments, as we had a blighting freeze the 20th day of May, but it has gone far enough to prove to me there is much value in it, to the farmer as well as to the bee- keeper. In driving from Denver to Boulder, a few miles south of Louisville, I dis- covered, growing on the plains, an acre or more of horehound. This is a great honey plant. A few seeds got there by chance, and have increased, until now the horehound covers several acres of dry clay and gravel soil. There are hundreds of thousands of acres like this soil which might be in horehound in- stead of cactus and other worthless plants. When living near Rocky Moun- tain Lake, I saved a quantity of cleome seed. In the spring I drilled it in the ground. It came up beautifully and made a wonderful growth. There are thousands of acres where cleome would grow, where the ground is growing nothing. The seeds could be buried or drilled in in e
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