. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^3 heou. BEE-PAPf;^ IN AMERICA 35th Year. CHICAG-O, ILL., DEC. 19, 1895. No. 51. Cojptributed /Vrticlcs^ On Importaxit JLpiariaii Subjects, Sweet Clover for Honey and Forage. BY. TVM. STOLLEY. Complying with Dr. Miller's request on page 759, re- specting sweet clover (melilot), I will say this : 1st. 1 think that about 7-10 of my 175 pounds of sur- plus per colony came from sweet clover, because my bees worked but a few days on alfalfa bloom, when it was cut for hay. They worked much more on sweet clover than they did on alfalfa, while they worked on
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^3 heou. BEE-PAPf;^ IN AMERICA 35th Year. CHICAG-O, ILL., DEC. 19, 1895. No. 51. Cojptributed /Vrticlcs^ On Importaxit JLpiariaii Subjects, Sweet Clover for Honey and Forage. BY. TVM. STOLLEY. Complying with Dr. Miller's request on page 759, re- specting sweet clover (melilot), I will say this : 1st. 1 think that about 7-10 of my 175 pounds of sur- plus per colony came from sweet clover, because my bees worked but a few days on alfalfa bloom, when it was cut for hay. They worked much more on sweet clover than they did on alfalfa, while they worked on alfalfa. I estimate that of the first 2,000 pounds of (nearly white) honey gathered, 9/10 came from sweet clover, and but 1. 10 from alfalfa. About 1,000 pounds of fall honey, I believe, consists of J^ melilot, 3/10 buckwheat, and l,/5 wild bloom. There is plenty of golden-rod in my locality, but bees do not work on It, while four or five miles south of me (on the Platte River islands) bees work well on the same plant every fall. 2nd. I am inclined to believe that sweet clover, if allowed to grow without being cut (the second year of its growth, of course) will yield more honey than if cut ; but I do not think that this is under certain conditions the proper thing to do for one who is first and foremost a farmer, and where honey-pro- duction comes in as a secondary consideration. 3rd. Again, if a farmer is also a stock-raiser, besides be- ing a bee-keeper, he may consider the fodder to be obtained tions, I will further say that I think it most profitable to cut a proper portion of the sweet clover within two miles of my little apiary, principally on the public roads, as far as a mower will do it (there is always quite a lot of it that grows too near fences and hedges that cannot be cut), just about the time when it will soon begin to bloom, so as to cause numerous and profuse sprouting anew. A proper part (about 14) of the growing of melilot I aim to allow to grow unmolested. T
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