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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Tlic 17-acre orchard that in its tentli year produced 6 carloads of apples with the help of the bees. 



'' Mr. Root, you may have both brood and 

 bees dying, and yet may not notice it, unless 

 you go thru the hives 

 very carefully at the 

 time this spraying is 

 going on ; and, again, 

 a few days after, you 

 may not discover 

 anything w r o n g. 

 The fact that bees 

 are working on trees 

 for some time after 

 the first petals begin 

 to fall shows that the 

 practice is fraught 

 with some danger. 

 Believe me, I should 

 not want to run the 

 risk." 



WHY SOME PEOPLE 



FAIL IN GROWING 



FRUIT. 



In answer to the 

 question why so 

 many fail to make a 

 success in growing 

 fruit Mr. Baldridge 

 said: 



" They fail because 

 they do not meet 

 conditions that are 

 necessai'y. First, 

 there should be a 

 suitable location ; and 

 the location should be 

 favorable to the par- 

 ticular variety of 

 fi'uit to be grown, 

 giving special con- 

 sideration to the mat- 



ter of air 

 artificial 



A buncli of app'cs from one sprig of the Icn-year-o'.d 

 trees. 



drainage as well as to natural or 

 soil drainage; and last, but not 

 least, there should be 

 bees in or near the 

 orchards, and plenty 

 of them." 



When asked what 

 he meant by " air 

 drainage " he .said : 



'' By air drainage 

 I mean a location 

 where the lieavier 

 ■And colder portions 

 of the air can drain 

 away from the or- 

 chard. That con- 

 dition is met by put- 

 ting the orchard on 

 a hill. An orchard 

 should never be put 

 in a pocket where the 

 cold air can settle, 

 and where' frosts 

 would do damage." 



Mr. Baldridge at- 

 tributes a part of his 

 success in beekeep- 

 ing to his method of 

 wintering. He uses 

 the old-style two- 

 stoi-y A. I. Root chaff 

 hive, and he has been 

 using it for the past 

 H5 years with such 

 marked success (hat 

 he wonders why its 

 manufacture w a s 

 dropped. When it 

 is remembered that 

 this old hive enibod- 



