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THE STATE AND NATION 



UNITE IN SUPPORT OF THE 



Oregon Agricultural College 



CORVALLIS, OREGON 



Where trained specialists with modern laboratories and adequate equipment 

 give instruction leading to collegiate degrees in the following schools: 



AGRICULTURE, with fifteen departments. 



COMMERCE, with four departments. 



ENGINEERING, with six departments, including Civil, 

 Electrical, Highway, Industrial Arts, Irrigation and Mechani- 

 cal Engineering. 



FORESTRY, including Logging Engineering. 



HOME ECONOMICS, with four major departments, in- 

 cluding training in the Practice House. 



MINING, with three departments, including Chemical 

 Engineering. 



PHARMACY. 



INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION a specialty. 

 VOCATIONAL COURSES offered in all Schools. 



THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC offers instruction in the prin- 

 cipal departments of vocal and instrumental music. 



THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT, established in 1872, en- 

 rolled 1085 cadets in 1916-17, and won recommendation for 

 O. A. C. from the Western Department of the U. S. War 

 Department as one of the fifteen "distinguished institutions" 

 of higher learning in the country. All cadets will be furnished 

 complete uniforms by the U. S. Government, and the junior 

 and senior cadets, enrolled in the R. O. T. C., will be given 

 commutation for subsistence, as well as all transportation 

 and subsistence at the six weeks' Summer Camp. 



Registration Begins October 8, 1917 



INFORMATION ON REQUEST. 



ADDRESS REGISTRAR, OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, CORVALLIS, OREGON 



Pollination by Bees 



By A. Bowman 



THE necessity of bees in orchards as 

 an aid to pollination has passed the 

 experimental stage, and this phase of 

 the question permits of no argument. 

 It is interesting to know that in the 

 large apple-growing districts what 

 seems to be fabulous prices are paid to 

 beekeepers for the use of bees for pol- 

 lination purposes alone. In many in- 

 stances five dollars per colony is 

 willingly paid by orchardists, and this 

 just for the use of the flying bees in 

 the critical season of blossoming; and 

 to such an extent is this practiced that 

 frequently the demand exceeds the sup- 

 ply. If the apple growers of New 

 Jersey and other sections can afford to 

 pay a price that is nearly equivalent to 

 the price of the colony alone, and 

 which is virtually a temporary pur- 

 chase, we in our districts may be over- 

 looking some of the kinks that might 

 be helpful to us locally in securing 

 better pollination and a crop of bet- 

 ter fruit. 



Experiments of late years seem to in- 

 dicate that the prune and cherry drop 

 so prevalent some seasons may be 

 largely due to insufficient or weak pol- 

 lination, and more frequently blamed 

 to bad weather conditions prevailing at 

 the critical time when the blossom is 

 receptive. This may be more or less 

 true; but with bees on hand, even a few 

 hours without rainfall permit their 

 rapid flight, and the receptive blossoms 



awaiting the visitation of insect life are 

 thoroughly pollinated and fertilized by 

 the visitors, who in their turn are more 

 or less recompensed for their labor with 

 the small amount of honey gathered; 

 and unless weather conditions are very 

 unfavorable a single bee will visit hun- 

 dreds of blossoms before she gets 



enough of a load with which to start 

 homeward bound. 



Our conditions in the Northwest are 

 somewhat different from those in the 

 Eastern sections. Bees are not as 

 numerous and the distances between 

 apiaries are much greater. This being 

 the case, thousands of trees are never 

 visited by the blessed bees by whose 

 agency man would be greatly benefited 

 if these visitations could be assured. 

 The past season being backward and 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 



In addition to complete courses in general and 

 scientific education, offers full opportunities in 



MILITARY DRILL, DOMESTIC SCIENCE 

 ARTS AND COMMERCE 



Plan for effective future service. Your country 



needs it. Send for free illustrated book lets ."Train 



the Brain for Peace or War" and "The Woman and 



the University." Address Registrar, 



UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Oregon 



We Carry a Full Line of Nursery Stock 



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