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Show Pollination Still Is Bees' Biggest Job The greatest contribution of honey bees to our wartime production is still in pollination of agricultural crops for production of seed and fruit, though the importance of both honey and beeswax has also increased. in-creased. Domestic honeybees pollinate most fruits, as the wild insects are seldom sel-dom numerous enough to .accomplish .accom-plish this early spring job. In areas where most of the land is cultivated, wild insects have few places left for nesting and breeding, and the pollination polli-nation of most other crop plants also depends on the domestic bees. With the present urgent need for greater production of legume and other seeds, honey bees may have to be brought into the seed producing pro-ducing areas for assurance of good crops. Beekeeping fits in well with seed production, as the fields of clover, clo-ver, alfalfa, and other crops furnish fur-nish bees with food and with nectar for making honey |