. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. October. iQip their neighbor's bees for chnrity work and sooner or later the live producer will see the need of having a good stock of bees on his own farm. "If bees are introduced into the In- land Empire on a large scale, the farmers will first have to provide bet- ter means of feeding. Food secured by the bees during the first season will not be enough for their winter supply and every corner and nook will have to be sown in ; Quite another aspect is presented in a dispatch from Prosser, Wash, which said that a startling mortality among bees i
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. October. iQip their neighbor's bees for chnrity work and sooner or later the live producer will see the need of having a good stock of bees on his own farm. "If bees are introduced into the In- land Empire on a large scale, the farmers will first have to provide bet- ter means of feeding. Food secured by the bees during the first season will not be enough for their winter supply and every corner and nook will have to be sown in ; Quite another aspect is presented in a dispatch from Prosser, Wash, which said that a startling mortality among bees indicates an unusual shortage of honey in the Yakima Valley for the present season. Tons of honey were shipped from this locality last year and brought fancy prices. W. H. Tucker, who had over 200 stands of bees, which yielded him an income from s2.') to i?54 a stand last year, re- ports that he will have no honey for sale this year. Mr. Tucker reports his loss to be between and 812,000. He stated that the unusual value of the apple crop has causeil orchardists to continue spraying much later than heretofoie and in much heavier quan- tity. The chemicals in the spray fluids, he said, is killing the bees by the mil- lion. Mr. Tucker started this season with 250 stands, 50 of which have been entirely wiped out and no more than 10 to 20 per cent of the inmates of the remaining stands still survive. Other bee keepers in the Prosser dis- trict report similar damage. The subject will be debated at fruit growers' conventions this fall. There seems to be a strong conflict of opin- ions as to whether the spray used to combat the coddling moth is fatal for bees. BETTER FRUIT Page 25 Dedicate Memorial to Rome Beauty. At its summer meeting on July 23, the Ohio .State Horticultural Society dedicated near the site of the original tree a boulder memorial to the Rome Beauty apple, the most important va- riet\- produced in the state. The origi- nal tree, a sprout from below the graft was
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