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tive Committee of the League for consideration and action.

The delegates and beekeepers at the convention were nicely entertained at a banquet through the kindness of the local supply men, Messrs. Muth and Messrs. Weber, and the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. The 1927 convention of the League is expected to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, or Hot Springs, Arkansas. H. C. Dadant.

Making Sweet Clover Popular

By L. H. Cobb.

Sweet clover as a honey plant is so valuable that we will be doing our business good every time we make a special effort to increase its popularity in our neighborhood. Not only that but we are benefiting our neighbors as well. It has been considered a weed so long that it is hard to convince farmers that it is anything else, and yet where it has been tested it has proven of great value as a pasture and hay crop. The trouble is that, at first, stock does not like it and the farmers will take first appearances for final, but there is so much evidence now that after it has been eaten a short time the stock comes to prefer it to wild grass and it should not be hard to induce the farmers to give it a trial. I traveled over parts of Iowa, Minnesota, and talked with farmers from South Dakota, and found that sweet clover was being used there very freely. I saw field after field in the western part of both Minnesota and Iowa. In northern Missouri I saw a herd of Holsteins feeding in a large pasture of sweet clover that had heavy roots but slender growths in full bloom, and examination showed that it had been kept grazed down sufficiently to keep it from getting coarse, and yet was furnishing an abundance of fine pasture when pastures all around were badly cut by the drouth then prevalent. One farmer in South Dakota told me that ten acres of sweet clover which he fenced with thirty acres of wild pasture was grazed in preference by his herd of cows, and he considered one acre of sweet clover as worth four acres of wild grass for pasturage. This being the case, we can do our farmers a good turn by inducing them to seed pastures to alfalfa. The pasture is ideal bee supply source for it remains in bloom so long. All through this sweet clover district I found farmers very enthusiastic for it as a pasture and hay crop, and as it will thrive practically everywhere, there is no reason other places cannot be equally benefited by it, and beekeepers are vitally interested in this.

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Perforated Flowers

Referring to your article on "Perforated Flowers," in your December number, page 590, I think that bees make holes in some flowers when the texture is not too hard to punch.

I have, near my apiary, three rows 80 ft. long, of Monarda didyma_ (sometimes called bergamot and also bee balm). Last summer the bees were very busy gathering honey from the base of the corolla tubes. Considering the fact that there was an enormous quantity of flowers, the rows being quite heavy, it is not possible that the perforations were made by wasps or other insects, for I saw very few wasps or bumblebees working on them.

Although I examined the working bees very closely it is very hard to say whether they punched the holes

X or not, for I could not find any flowers that had no holes, and I suppose that, as soon as a bee discovered a corolla without an opening, it started to make one to gather the nectar.

M. Des Champs, Pennsylvania. (This is interesting, indeed. But I must say that I have little faith in the ability of the bees to perforate the corolla of flowers, in general, although they may do it, as you say, when they are not too hard. If bees could readily puncture corollas, we would not deplore the fact that the bumblebees are usually the only red clover workers. Yet the corolla of red clover seems very fragile. But the only time when honeybees work upon it is when either the corolla is short or the honey so abundant that they can reach it, for although I have often watched bees working on red clover, it was always through the end of the corolla. Yet some people would have us believe that they can damage the skin of sound fruit, which is much harder than the tender corolla of flowers.-Editor).

New England Beekeepers We are in receipt, from S. W. Dyer, of two clippings concerning beekeeping in Massachusetts and neighboring states. It appears that they have had some great snows which covered the hives almost entirely and protected them against the cold.

An account of an interview with the President of the Northern Essex County Beekeepers was published in the Lawrence Sunday News and showed that they have been strenuously fighting foulbrood and "have seriously reduced if not totally eliminated the menace." This association usually meets in the rooms of the Natural History Society and in return for the favor entertains them once a year, with honey, ice cream and fancy crackers.

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We are fully responsible, and able to carry out our agreements. good hustling stock of Pure Three-Banded Italians as it is possible to produce. Ship you young bees, very few of which have ever been afield. Queens fresh from our own queen yards; of pure breeding and reared by best methods.

Don't delay ordering, if you want to be assured desired dates. Don't judge our products by price only. They will stand the test.

2-lb. packages with untested queens, 1-25 $3.50 each, upward $3.00
3-lb. packages with untested queens, 1-25 $4.50 each, upward $4.00

2-frame nuclei young tested queens $4.50

3-frame nuclei young tested queens $5.50
Lots of 25 up, deduct 50c each

"OUR PRIDE" QUEENS

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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL

April

The advantages of buying

Light Three Banded Bees and Queens Package Bees on Combs

Ninety-five per cent of the packages that are bought from the South go out with queens. This natural food will keep bees contented in transit and solve the great problem of introduced queens. Queens are introduced and laying enroute. No chances on queens on arrival. You are taking no chances of buying disease from us. Our bees are inspected by Government competent men. We guarantee safe delivery and issue health certificate with each shipment. We want your business and we aim to please you and grow our business.

Will start shipping April 15. Fifteen per cent with order, balance at shipping time. Note our low prices. 10 2-lb. with selected untested

25 2-lb.

50 2-lb.

100 2-lb.

queens.

$ 37.50

90.00

175.00

325.00

45.00 108.75

50 3-lb.

100 3-lb.

10 4-lb. with selected untested queens.

25 4-lb.

212.50

400.00

52.50

127.50

250.00

475.00

10 3-lb. with selected untested queens.

25 3-lb.

50 4-lb. 100 4-lb.

To those who have a short time for bees to build, we advise the 5-lb. on two frames with selected untested queens at $6.50 each package.

CENTRAL LOUISIANA APIARIES, OSCAR MAYEUX HAMBURG, LOUISIANA

Proprietor

Manufacturers of "Hercules" Non-Sagging Foundation

We are paying 43c per pound for clean beeswax in trade for bee supplies.
40c in cash. Ship today and notify us
THE FRED W. MUTH CO.

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By C. P. Dadant

The Dadant way of keeping bees explained, including the important points in the use of the large hive.

The author gives an account of his long practice and describes the many

experiments made by Charles Dadant and his descendants in the Dadant Apiaries.

In English, "The Dadant System of Beekeeping." In French, "Le Systeme Dadant en Apiculture." In Italian, "Il Sistema D'Apicoltura Dadant."

118 pages, 37 illustrations; cloth binding PRICE $1.00, POSTPAID

In French, paper cover, 50c

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48 Years Old and Good Today

"I have some hives that came from Root's
48 years ago, they are good yet and am
using them now."

NO BETTER HIVES CAN BE MADE-BUY ROOT HIVES FOR ECONOMY

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TWO-POUND PACKAGE Italian bees $3.00.
Italian queens, $1.00 each; $11.00
dozen.
The F. M. Russell Co.,
Roxbury, Ohio.

SUPERIOR Italian queens and bees, delivered. Order from this ad. Two-pound packages with queens. 1-4, $4.60; 5-15, $4.45; 16-24, $4.25; 25-49, $4.10; 50 and up, $3.85.

Queens: 1-99, 80 cents; 100 and up, 70c. No disease, bees and satisfactory service guaranteed.

W. C. Smith & Co., Calhoun, Ala. PURE ITALIAN QUEENS-Untested $1.00; tested, $1.50; 2-lb. package, $3.00. Add price of queen wanted. Safe arrival guaranteed after May 10. Write for prices on colonies. Birdie M. Hartle, 924 Pleasant St., Reynoldsville, Pa. HOLLOWPETER'S "Bred for Business" untested Italian queens, light three-banded stock, ready June 1; $1.00 each. Write for circular. J. B. Hollopeter, Rockton, Pa. Commercial queen breeder continuous from 1911.

BEES-Free delivery and prompt service.
See advertisement on page 202 for prices,
etc.
The Citronelle Apiaries,
Citronelle, Ala.

GOLDEN ITALIAN QUEENS-Untested, about May 1, $1.00 each 6 for $5.40; 12 for $9.60. Tested, $1.50. Select tested, $2.50. No disease, safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed.

Sam Hinshaw, Randleman, N. C. PACKAGE BEES-See larger ad on page 203 or write for prices. John A. Williams, Box 178, Oakdale, La.

WRITE for special prices on 2-lb. package bees and queens for June delivery.

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