the Department of Agriculture, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., show conclusively that 
the bees are absolutely necessary to 
secure the maximum results, both in 
quantity and quality of fruit. A fruit 
grower and a beekeeper should secure 
one or more of these bulletins. A care¬ 
ful reading will convince the most 
skeptical of the value of bees in or¬ 
chards. 
Nearly all the bulletins that have 
ever been issued on the growing of 
fruit have spoken favorably of bees. 
N 0- 2 .—Orchardists Who See 
No Benefit from Bees 
For the benefit of those who have 
tried bees and find no apparent benefit 
from them, it should be said that there 
are many factors that have a bearing 
on this question. If the temperature at 
the time the trees are in full bloom is 
below 60 to 65 degrees, the bees will 
be unable to do much work on the 
blossoms. Their attention will be con¬ 
fined mainly to the trees nearest at 
hand. Those more distant will be neg¬ 
lected entirely. Should there be no 
warm days with a temperature higher 
than 60 degrees, the probabilities are 
that the bees can not get in their work. 
Likewise if it is windy, rainy, or misty, 
the bees will be unable to fly. 
The conditions mentioned are be¬ 
yond the control of man. It is, there¬ 
fore important to have a large force of 
bees available so that if there be a few 
hours of good sunshiny weather the 
bees can do their work. 
Importance of Interplanting 
But there are other factors which 
are in the control of man. The prac- 
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