Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1910 — Entertains Company By Cutting a Bee Tree. [ARTICLE]

Entertains Company By Cutting a Bee Tree.

.. _____ ■•; . » Monon News. Eli Wood and wife spent two days with Harvey Wpod, near Rgpsselaer, last week, and while there a tree was felled on the latter’s place for the purpose of securing the honey. It proved ,to be a capital find, as the hollow in the three contained a solid pack of fine honey for a distance of nine feet. The bees were smoked out in order to enable the attacking party to secure the booty without being stung. About 140 pounds of honey was taken from the tree and Mr. Wood brought a bucketful home with him. In the early days before the forests had been invaded, the cutting of bee trees was a common occurrence and the pioneer in this way had. his table supplied with honey. But Mr. Harvey Wood makes a specialty of bee culture and has honey for the market, so that the tree incident of last week was more to show his brother Eli a good time than to get the supply of sweets.— Monon News.