The honey bee- a manual of instruction in apiculture (1899) (14784666502)

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Title: The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Benton, Frank, 1852-1919 Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library WU
Subjects: Bee culture
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library



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able to have them near at hand and in numbers proportionateto the size of the orchards, so that even a few hours o( sunshine willassure their making a thorough distribution of the pollen. In theabsence of accurate experiments regarding the number of colonics of bees required to insure proper fertilization in the orchard, and also in 64 MANUAL OF APICULTURE. view of the fact that surrounding conditions vary greatly, it is difficultto say exactly how many colonies are positively necessary for a givennumber of trees. However, four or five well-populated hives for everyhundred large apple trees will doubtless suffice, even though no otherhive bees are within a mile of the orchard. The bees of a neighborsapiary are often quite sufficient for the orchardists purpose, the benefitresulting from their labors being, therefore, mutual, though the orchard -ist doubtless derives in this case greater advantage from them thandoes their owner himself. Escaped swarms lodged in forest trees in V*»-.Jk
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