. Biggle bee book [microform] : a swarm of facts on practical bee-keeping, carefully hived. Bees. r^- . -fe. < .f '.»» â A A fi â j^ < r. â ji. < o a. CllAI'TKK f REASONS I'OR KI'Ja'lXG BEES O velvet I't-e, you're a dusly fe/hw, you'x^e poivJered your le^s with i^olil!âjfan Intjt'low. If for no oilur rrasoii than to insure tlic proper fertilization of fruit and other l)h)ssonis every lar- mi-r, fruit ,^r(»\vcr or uardrncr should keep a few bees upon his ^rouncN. In our hahit of re^ardin^^ beekeeping from the commercial standpoint, and measuring its ])rofit S()lel\ by the amount of
. Biggle bee book [microform] : a swarm of facts on practical bee-keeping, carefully hived. Bees. r^- . -fe. < .f '.»» â A A fi â j^ < r. â ji. < o a. CllAI'TKK f REASONS I'OR KI'Ja'lXG BEES O velvet I't-e, you're a dusly fe/hw, you'x^e poivJered your le^s with i^olil!âjfan Intjt'low. If for no oilur rrasoii than to insure tlic proper fertilization of fruit and other l)h)ssonis every lar- mi-r, fruit ,^r(»\vcr or uardrncr should keep a few bees upon his ^rouncN. In our hahit of re^ardin^^ beekeeping from the commercial standpoint, and measuring its ])rofit S()lel\ by the amount of honey produced, many of us have overlooked the real mission of the h lonev-bec i n 1 i f () which is properlx pollenize our blossom^. In lookinu at the \ o bod. disco\ cr I the 1 )ee we tl lat u IS coated all o\iT with a fu/./.v down, to whieh adheres the pollen oi the bloss(nii it enters. 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 Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : W. Atkinson Co.
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Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectbees, bookyear1909
