Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Bee Industry Is a Myth. [ARTICLE]

Bee Industry Is a Myth.

Bee®, said Fanner William Russell to a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, are just like human beings. When they are busy they are virtuous and peaceable; but when in idleness they become vicious, given to foolish actions that dissipate the strength of the colonies and make the work of the beekeeper twice as arduous. Last year the season ran so that the bees were busy all tue time. The blossoms came in rotation and the bees always had something to do. They made honey very fast aud the business.was prosperous. This season there has been less honey to gather and the bees, with nothing to busy themselves upon, have devoted their time to frolic aud idleness. The old rhyme, “How doth the busy bee Improve each shining hour—” Is all nonsense. The bees are marvels of thrift and Industry when they have work to do, but they can be quite as foolish as men. The talk of the “idle drone” is another foolishness that has crept into the language through Ignorance. The drone is the male bee. He hns no business to gather honey; his function is altogether different and quite as important as that of the worker. He is the father of the hive, and when his work has been performed he is killed off as useless.

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