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Show Add Nicotine Sulphate to Sprays to Save Bees liach spring fear Is expressed by orchardlsts that the arsenate of lend sprays applied to pear and apple bios- soms for worms will poison the bees : at work disseminating pollen. Knun recent experimental work It Is evident evi-dent there Is little danger If nicotine sulphate Is added to the poison spray. I'.e s will take arsenate of lead, and some poisoning Is possible; however, ' they show an aversion to nicotine. . and stay away from blossoms wnen the mixture Is applied. If Fpraymi? I Is done In full bloom, the poillnlzlng activities of Hie bees will thus he Interfered In-terfered with by Ibis very precaution against poisoning, (in the other hand. , If applied at the end of the bloom, j which Is usually the case, most of the j p.illinlzing will have been performed j ' before the bees nre driven away from the blooms. The nicotine sulphate j has Its value as a spray against ( nphlds. In addition to protecting bees. I |