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Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

Creator:

Kellar, Brenda M.

Abstract:

The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

place. Historian Benjamin R. Cohen has said that in the nineteenth century “improving the land was