. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. idys. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 445 the long way of the holes parallel with the roller. With a strip of wood Id one of the alleys to nail the tin to, the roller is covered, and when properly put on and filled, sand-paper can't approach it for smooth, fine polish. We produce honey In beeway sections, so I made the main sheet just 4 inches long, and raised the T tins at the ends Js-inch, put on a strip of tin with one row punched with the chisel, then with platform and two guides just 4?4' inches apart, I clean the beeways. I believe anyone who will try
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. idys. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 445 the long way of the holes parallel with the roller. With a strip of wood Id one of the alleys to nail the tin to, the roller is covered, and when properly put on and filled, sand-paper can't approach it for smooth, fine polish. We produce honey In beeway sections, so I made the main sheet just 4 inches long, and raised the T tins at the ends Js-inch, put on a strip of tin with one row punched with the chisel, then with platform and two guides just 4?4' inches apart, I clean the beeways. I believe anyone who will try this will abandon sand-paper in any form. There are two things essential to suc- cess—a perfectly round roller after the tin is on, and even, regular work in punching the tin. John S. Bruce. Montrose Co., Colo. June 28. Yellow Sweet Clover. The plant that Mr. Hall, of Hardin Co., Iowa, sends, is yellow melilot or sweet clover, and has all the good boney- producing qualities of the common white sweet clover. It is a much rarer plant here in the West, only found occasion- ally, but more common eastward. It bears the euphonious botanical name of MelUotus offichiaiis. The first part of the word " melilotus "—" mel "—attests its honey value. It is a plant well worth cultivation by bee-men, if you are not troubled with the bugaboo notion that it will become a weed, as some claim for Its near relation the Melilotus alba, or com- mon sweet clover. H. S. Pepoon. Beard-Tonguo or Foxglove. I enclose two samples of flowers which I think belong to the same family. The larger one is more abundant and is a fine honey-yielder. It began blooming about May SO, and somewhat resembles snap- dragon, but the mouth of the flower is open, and the color is light blue. Frank Adelbert. Flathead Co., Mont. [The two plants sent by Mr. Adelbert are members of the great figwort family that furnishes many fine honey-plants. The plants in question are known botan- ically as Pentstemo
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