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Show IMPORTANCE OF HONEY BEES Without Them There Would Be Little Fruit and Alfalfa or Clover Seed Pollinate Many Plants. The making of honey Is a side Issue In the Important work of boos, according accord-ing to Dr. J. II. Morrill, assistant prn-foMOf prn-foMOf of entonioli rv in the Knnsns Slate Agricultural college. Without bee tliero would tie NttM fruit nml little alfalfa or clover seed. "The strawberry Is a plant for which Insects are necessary to proiluoo good fruit," snld Doctor Morrill. "In MM varieties the staininnte and pistillate flowers are borne 00 different plants. V.x porlmonts have boon undertaken to determine whether the wind could carry pollen, Gelatin plntes were exposed ex-posed which would contain pollen grain Is carried by the wind. In not n single case were pollen grains of the strawberry found. The regular pollinators pol-linators of the straw lierry are honey bees and other small boos. "Dees nre Important In pollinating the cucumber. Tomatoes are sometimes self-polllnnted, but bees nre an Important Impor-tant factor In producing good fruit. The size of the fruit Is slightly Increased. In-creased. " |