Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — The Busy Bee. [ARTICLE]

The Busy Bee.

When you eat a spoonful of honey you have very little notion as to the amount of work and travel necessary to produce it. To make one pound of clover honey, bees must deprive 62,000 clover blossoms of their nectar, and to do this requires 3,750,000 visits to the blossoms by the bees. In other words one bee to collect enough nectar to make one pound of honey must go from hive to flower and back 3,750.000 times- Then, when you think how far lx-es sometimes fly in search of these clover fields, oftener than not one or two miles from the hive, you will begin to get a small idea of the number of miles one of the industiious little creatures must travel iu order that you may have the pound of honey that gives them so much trouble. It may also help you to understand why the bee is unamiable enough to sting you if you get in his way. When one has to work so hard to accomplish so little, it is quite irritating to be interfered with.—[Harper's Young People.