Biennial Report Of The Board Of Trustees Of The Agricultural College Of Utah For The Years

Author : Agricultural College Of Utah
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230163611
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural College of Utah for the Years 1905,1906 Accompanied by the Report of the President written by Agricultural College Of Utah and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...I would refer you to the State of California, which is the most extensive bee-keeping state in the Union and also the "most extensive in the production of fruit.--National Rural. The number of insect visitors in any orchard determines to a very great extent the amount of cross pollination carried on. The pollen of the pear and apple is not produced in sufficient quantity nor is it of the right consistency to be carried by the wind. The pollination of these trees is therefore dependent on the activity of the insects. Ordinarily there are enough of these to cross pollinate a few hundred trees, but in the case of large commercial orchards, especially where several are in close proximity to each other, there is not a sufficient number of insects for cross pollination when the trees are in the height of bloom. For this reason, each large orchardist should keep a number of colonies of bees. How it Looks to the Austrians. "In seven locaities in Austria, last year, experiments on the fertilizing of fruit blossom were conducted according to a concerted plan on a variety of trees and shrubs, choosing those that had not borne much the preceding year. In one locality apple-blossoms covered from insects bloomed one to three days longer than uncovered ones; pear blossoms four to five days longer; and plum blossoms four to six days. No fruit set on the covered apple-boughs, and less on the covered pear and plum boughs than the uncovered ones, much of which fell off prematurely. In another locality the experiment was tried on a pear and a cherry, which bore fruit in abundance on the uncovered branches. All the covered blossoms remained in bloom longer, but none developed, except one, this apparently because it rubbed against the covering, and...