. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. I Conventions-^ f Proceed iii^s. Report of the New Jersey Con vention The New Jersey Bee-Keepers' Asso- ciation met in annual session at the State House, Trenton, N. Jan. ii, 1908, at 10:30 a. m., with Pres. W. W. Case in the chair. The Secretary, J. D. Wanser, being absent, J. H. M. Cook was chosen Secretary pro tern. The minutes of the last meeting were read by Secretary Cook, and approved. The election of officers w-as postponed until the afternoon session. BEES AND BLOSSOMS. The first paper was by Prof. Case on "Bees and ; T
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. I Conventions-^ f Proceed iii^s. Report of the New Jersey Con vention The New Jersey Bee-Keepers' Asso- ciation met in annual session at the State House, Trenton, N. Jan. ii, 1908, at 10:30 a. m., with Pres. W. W. Case in the chair. The Secretary, J. D. Wanser, being absent, J. H. M. Cook was chosen Secretary pro tern. The minutes of the last meeting were read by Secretary Cook, and approved. The election of officers w-as postponed until the afternoon session. BEES AND BLOSSOMS. The first paper was by Prof. Case on "Bees and ; This was a well- prepared, scientific paper. Some of the important things he brought out were that plants that require the aid of bees and other insects in their cross-pollina- tion bear brilliant - colored blossoms; while those plants that do not require pollination by bees and other insects, do not bear brilliant-colored blossoms. Mr. Case is well versed in botany and drew many illustrations to prove his proposition, with much comment on each illustration. Among his illustrations of brilliant-colored blossoms to attract bees, apples, pears, cherry, peach, buckwheat, clovers, strawberries, pumpkins, squash- es, melons; among colorless blossoms he named grasses of all kinds, grains except buckwheat, corn, etc. The paper further showed how beneficial to the fruit, berry, and melon grower is the bee- keeper, but of especial benefit to the apple, peach, and pear grower, to fer- tilize the early blooms of those trees, because other insects are not usually bred in sufficient numbers so early in the season to pollinate properly such blos- soms. Another important fact about bees as pollinators was that bees visit only one kind of bloom on each trip. This law of bee-life insures cross-pollination of the blossoms of each kind of plant. If bees visited promiscuously among all kinds of bloom, they would be much less valuable as pollinators, for blossoms are inert to pollen except from thei
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