October. iQip 



their neighbor's bees for chnrity work 

 and sooner or later the live producer 

 will see the need of having a good 

 stock of bees on his own farm. 



"If bees are introduced into the In- 

 land Empire on a large scale, the 

 farmers will first have to provide bet- 

 ter means of feeding. Food secured 

 by the bees during the first season 

 will not be enough for their winter 

 supply and every corner and nook will 

 have to be sown in clover." 



Quite another aspect is presented in 

 a dispatch from Prosser, Wash, which 

 said that a startling mortality among 

 bees indicates an unusual shortage of 

 honey in the Yakima Valley for the 

 present season. Tons of honey were 

 shipped from this locality last year 

 and brought fancy prices. W. H. 

 Tucker, who had over 200 stands of 

 bees, which yielded him an income 

 from s2.') to i?54 a stand last year, re- 

 ports that he will have no honey for 

 sale this year. Mr. Tucker reports his 

 loss to be between SIO.OOO and 812,000. 

 He stated that the unusual value of 

 the apple crop has causeil orchardists 

 to continue spraying much later than 

 heretofoie and in much heavier quan- 

 tity. The chemicals in the spray fluids, 

 he said, is killing the bees by the mil- 

 lion. Mr. Tucker started this season 

 with 250 stands, 50 of which have 

 been entirely wiped out and no more 

 than 10 to 20 per cent of the inmates 

 of the remaining stands still survive. 

 Other bee keepers in the Prosser dis- 

 trict report similar damage. 



The subject will be debated at fruit 

 growers' conventions this fall. There 

 seems to be a strong conflict of opin- 

 ions as to whether the spray used to 

 combat the coddling moth is fatal for 

 bees. 



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Page 25 



Dedicate Memorial to Rome Beauty. 



At its summer meeting on July 23, 

 the Ohio .State Horticultural Society 

 dedicated near the site of the original 

 tree a boulder memorial to the Rome 

 Beauty apple, the most important va- 

 riet\- produced in the state. The origi- 

 nal tree, a sprout from below the 

 graft was planted near Proctorville, 

 Ohio, in 1817, by a small boy whose 

 father thought the tree a worthless 

 seedling. 



This apple has since been planted 

 well over the country. It was carried 

 to California in the gold rush of '49 

 via Cape Horn. Statistics for 1918 

 show that in the state of Washington 

 it is exceeded in numbers only by 

 .lonathan and Winesap. It has been 

 planted largely, too, in Oregon and 

 Idaho. 



Its characters of late blooming, an- 

 nual bearing, comparative resistance 

 to firehlight and its late keeping cou- 

 I)led with its size and attractiveness, 

 iiave made it a valuable apple, Ohio's 

 most important contribution to the 

 fruitgrowing industry. 



R. B. (".Hl'iCKSHANK, Secretary. 



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 iiniiiu'es. and advocates the phinting oT atCalra 

 ill them as one means of helping. 



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