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away hungry if there is anything there for him to eat. 

 He may take a little pollen, perhaps, and may be place- 

 the pollen on some other variety of fruit and he may do 

 more damage than he does good. The aroma from the 

 orchard comes into our nostrils, and we say, "How sweet 

 that is." Well, that is the pollen, little globules, like little 

 balls of oil going around and fertilizing everywhere, even 

 the nasal cavity. I never took much stock in this bee fer- 

 tilization. Still, it may be a good thing, but I think they do 

 more harm than good. Now, let's see what you can get out 

 of that. (Laughter). 



Mr. H. A. Cook. Two years ago I was told that I 

 couldn't raise clover unless I had lots of bees. In '74 I 

 had a brother living in Missouri. He raised acres and 

 acres and thousands and thousands of clover seeds, and 

 I Avrote and asked if they were in any way dependent on 

 honey bees for fertilizing the clover. lie said they had very 

 few; no bumble bees at all. They were talking then about 

 carrying the bumble bees to Australia, and I asked him 

 particularly to notice in regard to the honey bee or any 

 insect visiting the clover, and he wrote back and said, 

 "There isn't a honey bee in Missouri that I know of, and 

 that was back in '74, soon after the war, and the state 

 was sparsely settled. He said he didn't believe there 

 was a honey bee visited one blossom, one clover head, in 

 ten thousand. He had acres and acres. He would have to 

 be a pretty lively bumble bee or honey bee to get around 

 over that acreage of clover and there would have to be a 

 great many of them. So I don't take much stock in this 

 bee feHilization. 



A few years ago they said wo couldn't raise cucum- 

 bers unless there were honey Ijces there. \ placed some 

 late in July or August for that very purpose. They blos- 

 somed in October. The frost held off that year, and the 

 honey bees and other insects were gone to roost or some- 

 where else. I went to those more than ten times a day, 

 thinking that the bees or insects would be on those cu- 

 cumber blossoms, and never did I see one of any kind 

 of insect about those blossoms, and they gave me as pret- 

 ty a crop of cucumbers as you want to see. I don't think 

 an insect ever visited one of those blossoms. If they did, 

 they did it when it was too dark for me to be there. (Laugh- 

 ter). 



