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question to the lack of pollination. Several of my assistants here at Cornell have 

 also carried out limited experiments of this sort with the same results. We had 

 expected to carry on rather extensive clover experiments and had a lot of material 

 brought together, but gave up the idea of hybridization owdng to the difficulty 

 of getting self -fertilized seeds; clover being in general almost self -sterile under 

 ordinary conditions." 



We may therefore summarize the foregoing remarks in the words of A. A. 

 Phillips, Bee Expert in the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, who says: '' The 

 production of millions of dollars worth of fruit in the United States depends largely 

 on insect pollination, and no insect is so important in this work as the honey bee. 

 It is a most conservative estimate to claim that the honey bee does more good 

 to American Agriculture in its office as a cross-pollinator than it does as a honey 

 gatherer." 



