Package Bees 
There are a large number of locali¬ 
ties where there are extensive or¬ 
chards—so extensive that the wild 
bees and occasional bees owned by 
beekeepers are wholly inadequate to 
do the work of pollination. In such 
cases the orchardist may buy swarms 
of bees in cages without combs that 
can be sent from the South to north¬ 
ern orchards by express. Should it be 
necessary to resort to' the purchase of 
package bees for the orchards, write to 
the publishers of this booklet for a 
pamphlet on Combless Package Bees, 
and names of shippers of package bees. 
Our ABC & XYZ of Bee Culture, 
an encyclopedia on bees, has over 35 
double column pages devoted to bees 
in orchards. The chapters on this sub¬ 
ject are well worth the price of the 
whole book. 
It seems like a waste to destroy 
package bees and if the orchardist 
doesn’t care for them after pollination 
he perhaps could get someone who 
would be willing to place the bees in 
hives in order to have them ready for 
next season’s work. 
There are bee disease laws in near¬ 
ly all of the States and any bees that 
are left by themselves not on combs 
would probably be destroyed by the 
state bee inspector, unless otherwise 
disposed of. 
No. 6.—Bees Not Guilty as Charged 
There are a few who believe bees 
do more harm than good. The attempt 
has been made to prove that the bees 
have been the means of scattering 
pear blight or fire blight on apple trees. 
The “evidence” against the bees is at 
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