. Miscellaneous papers on apiculture. Bees; Honey; Bees; Bees; Bees; Bees. P cd* /DUKES Y. I^ig. 2.—Approximate location of greenhouses in which bees are used for the pollination of cucumbers. (Original.) There are at least 118 greenhouse cucumber growers. Only 73 of these, however, have furnished definite figures. These growers, including some of the largest and many of the smaller producers, use on an average 8 colonies of bees a year to set the crop. If the 118 known growers, which is not by any means the total number, require on the average 8 colonies each, nearly a thousand hives of bees
. Miscellaneous papers on apiculture. Bees; Honey; Bees; Bees; Bees; Bees. P cd* /DUKES Y. I^ig. 2.—Approximate location of greenhouses in which bees are used for the pollination of cucumbers. (Original.) There are at least 118 greenhouse cucumber growers. Only 73 of these, however, have furnished definite figures. These growers, including some of the largest and many of the smaller producers, use on an average 8 colonies of bees a year to set the crop. If the 118 known growers, which is not by any means the total number, require on the average 8 colonies each, nearly a thousand hives of bees would be utilized annually and, if the statistics from every grower were at hand, the writer feels sure several hundred colonies more than a thousand would be needed. When it is considered that practically. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Entomology; Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951. Production and care of extracted honey; Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951. Wax moths and American foul brood; Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951. Brief survey of Hawaiian bee keeping; Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951. Status of apiculture in teh United States; Browne, Charles Albert, 1870-1947. Methods of honey testing for bee keepers; White, G. F. (Gershom Franklin), 1875- Relation of the etiology (cause) of bee diseases to the treatment; Gates, Burton Noble. Bee keeping in Massachusetts. [Washington, Govt. print. off. ]
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