"The white clover region is the source of a large proportion of the honey produced in the United States"

Does white clover mean the annual which is now called Hubam or Hubam sweet clover?  Or the biennial white sweet clover which is more closely related to alfalfa than it is to clovers?  Both are excellent honey producers in the right soil types.  As good as yellow sweet clover I think.  Or perhaps the author means white Dutch clover, the stuff that grows in lawns that bees generally work as a last resort?  I doubt the latter as it does not compete at all well with higher growing grasses so getting acres would mean a lot of mowing around three inches high and no broadleaf herbicides.  In that kind of grass planting you will get lots of other weeds that are better for bees than the white Dutch clover in my experience.

Dick

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