ward Gould, West Virginia Experiment 
Station, on 800 acres of orchards, op¬ 
erated and owned by the Consolidated 
Orchard Co., were entirely successful. 
No. 4.—Where to Get and Where to 
Place Bees for Orchard Work 
When there are single orchards of 
not over three or four acres in size, 
the bees in the neighborhood may be 
sufficient to take care of the trees when 
they come into bloom; but when or¬ 
chards reach the size of five to ten. 
fifty or one hundred acres or more, it 
is necessary to restore the balance of 
nature by putting enough bees into the 
entire area covered by the trees to do 
the work of pollination. Usually a 
colony to the acre of mature trees, if 
the colony be strong, is considered 
enough bees to do effective work. If 
the trees are ten or fifteen years old 
half that number will be sufficient. 
The next question is where and how 
to get the bees. If there is a local bee¬ 
keeper in the vicinity, one who will 
have strong colonies at blooming time, 
not weaklings, arrangements can be 
made either to rent or buy the bees. 
The author recommends renting with 
the understanding that spraying and 
dusting are to be done when no flow¬ 
ers are in bloom in the orchard. Usual¬ 
ly a beekeeper, if he brings strong col¬ 
onies, can not afford to move them in¬ 
to the orchard and then out again for 
less than $5.00 per colony. The amount 
of nectar or honey that the bees will 
get from the fruit trees will, as a rule, 
be negligible. If there could be nice, 
steady warm weather during the entire 
period when the trees are in bloom, 
the bees might gather enough honey to 
