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more for strawberries. They come earlier; and it is more 

 essential, isn 't it, that you should have thorough pollination ? 



PROF. CHENOWETH. Particularly if they are im- 

 perfectly flowered. 



MR. IVES. You spoke about one colony to 50 trees, 

 a while ago. You didn't state how large those trees would 

 be, but did you mean trees 20 feet high and 20 feet broad, 

 or 5 feet high? Will you give some definite or average age 

 or size, or "bee capacity?" 



PROF. CHENOWETH. Trees of, say, 20 or 25 years of 

 age. 



MR. COPELAND. I am from Colrain, and we all know 

 that we raise some apples in Colrain, but I don 't know of five 

 colonies of bees within many miles. You folks know some- 

 thing about Apple Valley, (this whole section produces more 

 apples than the state of Oregon), and they say they haven't 

 many bees, and we want to know how we get the apples 

 without the bees. We spray and don't have any more in- 

 sects than the rest. 



PROF. CHENOWETH. Well, I don't doubt but you. 

 have a great many wild bees. 



MR. COPELAND. Well, I don't know where they are. 



PROF. CHENOWETH. Well, you just get out into 

 your orchard in blossom time. 



MR. COPELAND. I haven't seen but one swarm of 

 bees within 10 years, and that was found right in the very 

 village itself. 



PROF. CHENOWETH. When I spoke of wild bees, I 

 didn't mean such as you find in trees, but the Sweet and 

 other members of the bee family. 



PROF. SEARS. You go out into your apple orchard 

 when the apple trees are in blossom, and I'll guarantee you 

 will hear a good, big humming. 



PROF. CHENOWETH. I think it has been demonstrat- 

 ed that in the case of Baldwins, they are a self fertilizing 

 variety and a great many are grown, but there isn't any 

 question in my mind that if you had good cross-pollination, 

 Apple Valley would be even more celebrated for its fine 

 apples, for experiments show in every case that as to size 

 and form of fruit you would get better apples and larger 



