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Show Sweet Clover Is Best of Different Honey Plants Score another for sweet clover which not so long ago was regarded as a noxious nox-ious roadside weed. Sweet clover Is the greatest honey plant In the United States, according to G. C. Matthews ot Illinois university's division of bee culture, cul-ture, who points out that the several varieties of the plant furnish successive succes-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. Matthews, "and so tides bees over the critical period Just before the blooming of white clover. The white biennial blooms after white clover and lasts well into August. Hu-bam, Hu-bam, the white annual, begins to bloom soon after the first of August and continues con-tinues until killed by frost. The beekeeper bee-keeper can keep a constant honey flow in his community if he can but persuade per-suade the farmers around to grow all three varieties of sweet clover." Mr. Matthews tells of an Illinois beekeeper bee-keeper who furnished sweet clover seed to farmers when it was $2 a pound until there were more than 400 acres within reach of his bees. From this acreage he received a share of the seed crop and many tons of honey. Some of his colonies yielded nearly 500 pounds. "Grow sweet clover," is Mr. Matthews' Mat-thews' advice to beekeepers. "Furnish seed to your neighbors, study methods of getting it started nnd persuade road supervisors to leave it standing along the roadside." |