. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. OEOkGh W. VORK, Kditor. '"iuHF f,^ to i M 1 It 1 if i ^Imb^^I I w i Wi ^. •r: flfffit l|i ppip !Tfi|i ppiili*|J^ 6w«- ^#f>-^'(f-f)«f)'(f'9«(f-(f«(f-(f-(f-^-^-lt >K itt iJi ifeL sfc. ite ifa: >te ti |i Contributed | 4 Articles ^ ^>^ >p >j« >j)s: 7?? >t«: >?^ >?f k Value of Bees in Fruit- Orchards. BY J. B. CRANB. IT is not my object in this paper to thrash over old straw, but rather to gather some golden grains of truth from a harvest of facts that has ripened since the memor- able discussion of this subject a few j'e
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. OEOkGh W. VORK, Kditor. '"iuHF f,^ to i M 1 It 1 if i ^Imb^^I I w i Wi ^. •r: flfffit l|i ppip !Tfi|i ppiili*|J^ 6w«- ^#f>-^'(f-f)«f)'(f'9«(f-(f«(f-(f-(f-^-^-lt >K itt iJi ifeL sfc. ite ifa: >te ti |i Contributed | 4 Articles ^ ^>^ >p >j« >j)s: 7?? >t«: >?^ >?f k Value of Bees in Fruit- Orchards. BY J. B. CRANB. IT is not my object in this paper to thrash over old straw, but rather to gather some golden grains of truth from a harvest of facts that has ripened since the memor- able discussion of this subject a few j'ears ago, and gathered into a most interesting sym- posium. Perhaps nothing in that symposium was more noticea- ble than the difference of honest opinion held by many intelligent observers, and for good reasons as the sequel will show. It is an interest- ing fact that the new light on this subject has come thru the efforts of the fruit-growers rather than the bee-keeper, and that the solution of the problem is a most complete proof of the value of bees to the fruit-grower. Before giving the new facts that have come to light on this subject, I must tell how it came about. Many years ago, down in Virginia, a farmer planted out a large pear-orchard. As he was a bright man he thought he would make a very profitable investment, and not plant any unproductive trees. As Bartlett pear-trees are al- most universally known as the most productive as well as profitable, he planted his en- tire orchard of this variety. He cultivated his orchard with great care, fertilizers were ap- plied, and when he lookt for fruit he found "nothing but ; But he kept on until his means were exhausted and his place went under a mort-. J>S The Effect of Cross-Fertilization in Enlarging Fruit as well as Seeds. ^| XI t»\ tt\ n\ n\ tt\ tt\ it\ it\ n\ n\ n\ #M M\ Ml /n n\ in ft\ m itn in in in in in in in in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images t
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