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Buenos Aires is possible. By tlie lime 

 orchards could come into bearing some 

 of the railroads would probably have 

 been extended to tap the almost inex- 

 haustible timber regions of Southern 



Chile, not far distant, and thus have 

 opened up a .supply of material suitable 

 for the making of boxes and barrels, 

 .lust to the west of Hio Negro, in the 

 territory of Ncwquccn, where there are 



many fertile valleys suitable for culti- 

 vation, wild apple trees have been 

 known to be growing throughout a 

 large district, bearing large quantities 

 of good fruit as far back as over a hun- 

 dred years ago. 



Although no American varieties are 

 known to be bearing in the region at 

 the present time, nevertheless judging 

 from the data given by the climatic 

 table, from the remarkable spread and 

 thriftiness of the wild apples found 

 there, and further from the appearance 

 and behavior of both apple and pear 

 trees in the Rio Negro Valley, one is 

 led to conclude that the great market 

 varieties of the Western States will suc- 

 ceed there. These would then find a 

 ready market at high prices in Buenos 

 Aires and other towns of the Republic, 

 and even in Uruguay and South Brazil, 

 not competing with but following 

 apples of the same grade now imported 

 from the United States. 



Bees Help Fruitgrowers 



Did you have a full apple crop last 

 year? Failure of some varieties of 

 apples mav be due to lack of pollina- 

 tion. T. J. Talbert, of the College of 

 Agriculture, told Farmers' Week visit- 

 ors at the University of Missouri re- 

 cently how bees helped to make a fruit 

 crop. Many varieties of apples like 

 Arkansas Black, Jonathan and York 

 Imperial are self-sterile and cross- 

 pollination is absolutely essential if a 

 set of fruit is obtained. Other varie- 

 ties like Ben Davis, Yellow Transparent 

 and Willow Twig are only partly self- 

 fertile and again cross-pollination is 

 necessary. The numerous white showy 

 flower clusters act as a guide to the 

 insects and may attract them far away. 

 When a bee alights on a flower its hairy 

 body may be covered with pollen from 

 another variety of apple. As the bee 

 works its way down to the bottom of 

 the flower to get the nectar it rubs its 

 dusty body against the stigma or female 

 organ of the flower and cross-pollina- 

 tion is accomplished. 



It is a well-known fact among the 

 best fruitgrowers that the weather con- 

 ditions during fruit bloom has much 

 to do with the setting of the fruit. If 

 the weather is clear and warm at 

 blooming time the bees are active 

 and cross-pollination proceeds rapidly, 

 while if the weather conditions are 

 wet, cloudy and cold the insects are not 

 active and usually a poor set of fruit is 

 secured. Strong, cold winds may often 

 prevent the bees from cross-pollinating 

 one side of the apple trees, and this 

 may account for the set of fruit on only 

 one side of the trees. Actual counts 

 and observations at blooming time have 

 shown that tlie honey bee is decidedly 

 the most imporlant insect in the work 

 of pollinating the fruit flowers. Many 

 counts have shown that from seventy- 

 five to ninety per cent of the insects 

 pollinating the blossoms were honey 

 bees. 



The wind cannot be relied upon as an 

 agency to transfer pollen from apple 

 tree to apple tree throughout the 

 orchard. This work must be accom- 



