Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — Ducks Eat Bees. [ARTICLE]

Ducks Eat Bees.

Jersey Shore, Pa. —Mrs. W. P. Shoesley of Jersey Shore rural route No. 2 Is a successful duck raiser. She never permits her ducklings out of their lnclosure till the honey bees are through work for the day, and (he consequence is her ducks live to adult age. The new theory Is that the ducklings an* such greedy eaters that many are lost each year by swallowing honey bees, which retaliate by stinging the ducklings department of *he Interior to Ore point where the quacklet gives op the ghost.