Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1918 — Poisoning Bees. [ARTICLE]

Poisoning Bees.

Up near Inverell, N. S. W., Australia, men who encourage bees to work for them arq making a hubbub over the mortality among their swayms. Whole colonies are dying out and this is attributed to the tree-poisoning carried out by the government on a returned soldiers’ settlement area. Arsenic and soda are used on the timber, and an expert has been detailed to make inquiries as to the mixture** snare in toe destruction*