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p. 5: Bees are the most important insects for this work. The 
grower should therefore have plenty of bees in the orchard during the 
blossoming period. 
[Honeybees are rented for the pollination of almonds, apples, avo- 
cados, cranberries, pears, plums, prunes and cherries, as well as cucumbers 
and alsike clover.] 
Almond 
Tufts, W. P., and Philp, Guy L. 
1922. Almond pollination. Calif. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 343, 35 pp. 
p. 24: Pollenizing agencies, such as the honey bee, are neces- 
sary to the set of a good crop of fruit. One colony of honey bees 
should be provided for each acre of orchard. 
Crane, H. L., and Reed, C. A. 
1937. Nut breeding. U.S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook 1937: 827-889. 
p. 872: The pollen of almond and tung trees is carried by 
insects. 
Apple 
Auchter, E. C. 
1924. The importance of proper pollination in fruit yields. N. J. State 
Hort. Soc. Proc. 1S24: 133-142. 
pp. 140-141: The value of bees in pollination. The carrying of 
pollen from one variety to another is accomplished by wind and bees. 
It has been found, however, that pollen is carried only very short 
distances by wind, but that bees play a very important part in carrying 
the pollen. 
In crossing into the blossoms to get the nectar, their bodies 
become dusted with the pollen. This pollen is then left on the stigmas 
of other blossoms when they are visited. In California the investi- 
gators are recommending one hive of bees per acre for pollination 
purposes. 
A few years ago, the writer helped to conduct a special test to 
prove the value of cross-pollination and bees in a bearing Rome Beauty 
orchard in West Virginia. This orchard consisted of approximately 
twenty acres and was planted at quite a distance from any other or- 
chards. Although it blossomed well each year, the set was always very 
light. During the blossoming time for two years bees were placed under 
sixteen trees in the center of the orchard and blossoming limbs of other 
varieties were secured and placed in pails of water, which were hung 
in the Rome Beauty trees. The be es worked back and forth throu gh these 
