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The present ceiling on honey prices and the demoralized condition of 
the honey market are proving highly discouraging to beekeepers. Another 
obstacle is the difficulty of obtaining beekeepers' supplies. These facts, 
bined with the high wages obtainable in industry, are causing many 
small-scale, sideline beekeepers, having 50 to 100 colonies, to give up 
their bees and take employment in factories and elsewhere. Such curtailment 
cf the beekeeping industry will not only reduce the production of honey and 
beeswax but seriously interfere with adequate pollination. 
In the following pages literature is cited in support of the premise 
(I), that v, ild pollinating insects are deficient in number adequately to 
pollinate our agricultural crops, and (2) that at least 50 agricultural 
crops depend upon honeybees for pollination or yield more abundantly when 
bees are plentiful. 1/ The specific fruit and seed crops mentioned in these 
references are tabulated below: 
Fruit Crops 
Seed Crops 
Almond 
Apple 
Apricot 
Avocado 
Blackberry 
Blueberry and huckleberry 
Cherry 
Cranberry 
Cucumber 
Gooseberry 
Grape 
Muskmelon 
Peach and nectarine 
Pear 
Persimmon, native 
Plum and prune 
Strawberry 
Tung 
Walnut 
Watermelon 
Alfalfa 
Asparagus 
Broccoli 
Brussels sprouts 
Buckwheat 
Cabbage 
Cantaloup 
Carrot 
Cauliflower 
Clovers (alsike, crimson, 
red, strawberry, white, 
and Ladino white) 
Collards 
Cotton 
Cucumber 
Kale 
Kohlrabi 
Lotus 
Onion 
Pepper 
Pumpkin 
Radish 
Rape 
Rutabaga 
Soybean 
Squash 
Sunflower 
Sweet clover 
Trefoil 
Turnip 
Vetches 
Watermelon 
1/ These quotations are for the most part from plant spojialists, 
with only a few from authorities on apiculture. 
