Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — The Busy Bee. [ARTICLE]

The Busy Bee.

The bee is pointed out as a paragon of patient industry. Few people, however, realize the Infinitude of energy that must be put forth by a swarm of bees In order to store their hive with honey. How much do you suppose it takes to make, for example, a pound of clover honey? The scientists calculate that It requires the nectar from no fewer than 62,000 clover blossoms. To extract this nectar requires 2,750,000 visits by bees who often have to go for it a distance of one or two miles. Who of us has the Industry of the bee? And yet how else can the honey of life be stored?—Biblical Recorder. ,