Show Sweet Sweet Clover Is Best pf of I Different Honey Plants Score another for sweet clover which not so long ago was regarded as a noxIous noxious noxious nox nox- ious roadside weed Sweet clover is the greatest honey plant in the United States according to G G. C. C Matthews 1 of ot Illinois university's division of bee culture culture culture cul cul- ture who points out that the several varieties of ot the plant furnish successive successive successive sive bee pasture from spring until frosts In the fall The yellow biennial comes along about the time dandelions go out of bloom says Mr 11 Matthews 1 and so so tides bees over over the critical perIod period Just just before the blooming of ot white clover The white biennial blooms after white cloyer clover and lasts well Into August Hu Hu- barn bam the white annual begins to bloom soon after the first of August and continues continues con- con until killed by frost The beekeeper beekeeper bee- bee keeper can keep a constant honey flow flown In n his community If he can but persuade persuade per- per suade the farmers around to grow aUthree all aU three varieties of ot sweet clover Mr 1 Matthews 1 tells of an Illinois beekeeper beekeeper bee bee- beekeeper keeper who furnished furn sweet clover seed eed to farmers when It was 2 a n pound until there were more than ac acres es within reach of oi his b bees es From thIs his acreage he received a share of the seed eed crop and many tons of ot honey Some of his colonies yielded nearly pounds Grow sweet clover er Is Mr Matthews Matthews' Matthews Matthews' Mat- Mat advice to beekeepers Furnish seed eed to your neighbors study methods of getting It started and persuade p road supervisors to leave It standing along the he roadside |