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Napoleonic Wars and Plums

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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How to Pinch Your Bees

You had to pollinate them in February and that meant you brought all these bees in. They didn't work if it was 55 degrees or below so all of a sudden you prune for all this money into it. And then right around February 28 that's supposed to be 70 degrees you get a frost or the damn bees. So what did you do sometimes? I can remember really dumb stuff like putting sugar and water and the agitator of the spray tank. Cleaning it out cleaning out cleaning it out so there were no pesticide residues. Then spraying sweetness stuff on the blossom still lure the bees out when it was too cold.

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