. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. September, 1908. American Hee Journal. Conducted by LOUIS H. SCHOLL. New Braunfels. Tex. Horseniint and Yellow Sweet Clover. Editor Scholl:—How is horseraint planted, and when is the time to plant it? It is one of the best honey-plants in this locality. Also, what is the best way to plant yellow sweet clover ? It grows well here, but it is hard to get a stand of it. I have just one stalk, which reached a height of 5 feet. Al- though there was a good flow from horsemint, the bees were working on this plant all the time. H. h. RussELi,. Lone Oak, Tex. H
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. September, 1908. American Hee Journal. Conducted by LOUIS H. SCHOLL. New Braunfels. Tex. Horseniint and Yellow Sweet Clover. Editor Scholl:—How is horseraint planted, and when is the time to plant it? It is one of the best honey-plants in this locality. Also, what is the best way to plant yellow sweet clover ? It grows well here, but it is hard to get a stand of it. I have just one stalk, which reached a height of 5 feet. Al- though there was a good flow from horsemint, the bees were working on this plant all the time. H. h. RussELi,. Lone Oak, Tex. Horsemint is a good honey-plant here, too; especially this season it has again for the first time for years given us a good yield of hon^\ It is hard to tell how horsemint seed should be planted. Judging from the seasons and other conditions it seems as if even Nature does not know how to plant it—that is. if we look at it that way—for there will be many years when no horsemint shows itself. Then we have no horsemint honey for several years. All of a sudden we again have a good crop of it, like the present sea- son here. Much depends upon the seasons; and with horsemint it depends very much upon the previous fall. Last fall and winter were wet ones. This brought up the young plants in the fall, which is the time it should come up to give results the following May. If we have a dry fall and wet winter, wnich brings the horsemint up in the spring, it will bloom, but hardly ever yields honey. So, if we consider these things it is hard to know how to proceed, and I must for once do like Doctor Miller, and say, "I don't ; It is exactly the same with the sweet clover here. Besides the above named conditions, the different soils, and the atmospheric conditions, must be con- sidered. I have somtimes succeeded in getting a good start of sweet clover here by trying to imitate nature as much as possible, and by sowing in the fall, much like the seed falls to the earth
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