Gleanings in bee culture . tands over sixfeet tall in his stocking feet. When I calledat the Hetherington homestead, where theson at present resides, I found Mr. HubertHetherington very much tired out after ahard day s work in one of the operates with help some 1100 colonies in9 different yards, all run for comb honey, thefurthest being 12 miles away. The outlook for the crop was about 50,000sections. Hubert sticks to the hive of his? father, the Hetherington-Quinby, with itsclosed-end frames, feeling that for his meth-ods this combination suits him best. The bees aie a cross o
Gleanings in bee culture . tands over sixfeet tall in his stocking feet. When I calledat the Hetherington homestead, where theson at present resides, I found Mr. HubertHetherington very much tired out after ahard day s work in one of the operates with help some 1100 colonies in9 different yards, all run for comb honey, thefurthest being 12 miles away. The outlook for the crop was about 50,000sections. Hubert sticks to the hive of his? father, the Hetherington-Quinby, with itsclosed-end frames, feeling that for his meth-ods this combination suits him best. The bees aie a cross of two races—Carnio-lan and Italian; and the day I was amongthem they proved to be quite cross. They are hustleis, however, and the dash of Car-niolan blood in them results in sections thatare finished in snowy whiteness. Hubert Hetherington is the soul of modes-ty, and doesnt blow his own horn; but whenI parted with him at the railroad depot itwas with sincere regret, feeling that herewas a worthy son of a worthy FIG. 3.—REMOVING THE OUTER CASE. 330 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. ]VIar. 1 SWEET CLOVER AS AAGE PLANT. FOR- Tlie Expeiieiiee of a Farmer whoGrows it for his Stock; His Cat-tle Avill Take it in Preference toOther Clovers. BY W. T. DAVISON. It is a common thing to hear peo-ple say that nothing will eat ^weetclover. Such people are either draw-ing on their imagination or theirexperience is limited. Now, I donot say that stock will eat sweet clo-ver when there is plenty of grass,but my calves did that very thingthis summer, and kept it eaten downall fall. To try sweet clover fur-ther as a forage-plant I turned mycalves into a ten-acre held of sweetclover with two acres of English clo-ver on one side of the field. I fullybelieve they liked the sweet cloveras well as the English. There is no use for any one tosay that nothing will eat sweet clo-ver, for I have seen my calves eating ^.-^^^ 4it; and when I turned them into thatten-acre field they quit coming upfor thei
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