. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tlie Sainfoin, or Esparcette, of France. out there was a small patch of it about 16 miles from here, and that it bloomed the first of May, and, to use my inform- ant's expression, the bees 'just roared on it all day.' " I sent to a seed house for four pounds of seed, and waited patiently for it to come up, but nary a plant grew. In the spring of 1893, a German friend gave me some seed, with the remark : 'Shorsh, you mussn't don't got der blues about dot sainfoin. Here vos some more seed dot vos more petter as good like dot you sowed last year.' K
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tlie Sainfoin, or Esparcette, of France. out there was a small patch of it about 16 miles from here, and that it bloomed the first of May, and, to use my inform- ant's expression, the bees 'just roared on it all day.' " I sent to a seed house for four pounds of seed, and waited patiently for it to come up, but nary a plant grew. In the spring of 1893, a German friend gave me some seed, with the remark : 'Shorsh, you mussn't don't got der blues about dot sainfoin. Here vos some more seed dot vos more petter as good like dot you sowed last year.' Knowing a German had more patience than I had, I sowed the seed on about a rod of ground; it came up nicely—it did not grow up very tall, nor did it bloom the first season, but laid flat on the ground. But i^^^^^^ti ^ m m m m m Ifi^ H ^ m R^ y»Ji'^*|^Sfej P^^MJI l^^<^p ^^Mj yi w m 1 aBj y\\ Pi^ ^^fef^ m m 1 Sacaline—A Russian Plaoit. last summer it acted altogether different; it grew, up tall, rather in bunches, and was looking very promising. The first of May it was coming into bloom, but the prairie-dogs made a raid upon it, and before I could exterminate them they''got away with one-half of it. There was alfalfa growing close to the sainfoin, but the prairie-dogs paid no attention to the alfalfa. Then, to make matters worse, my mule got into it, and by the time he got his fill there was but very little left above ground ; but what little was left, my bees did a land-otifice business upon it. The season was very dry, and the sainfoin had no mois- ture from spring till Fall, yet it stayed green till Christmas. Geo. H. Eversole. " In the part of France where I was born, sainfoin was sowed, like red clover, at the end of winter, and generally with oats or barley ; for the rotation of crops there is usually first wheat, then oats, or barley, with clover or sainfoin. These leguminous forages are allowed to remain two seasons, and in the second summer the second growth
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