Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1920 — Bees Took Carload of Sugar. [ARTICLE]

Bees Took Carload of Sugar.

Near the station of Fontainebleau, France, a carload of crystallized sugar was held up and within four days the entire load had disappeared In spite of the guards. Not far from tMe station of Avon there are large bee farms, and while the bees covered the car In swarms no one supposed that they could carry away the crystallized sugar. Nor could they. But industriously and 1 Ingeniously they betook themselves to nearby basins and fountains and carried drops of water to melt tlfe sugar! The dampened sugar formed a that was eqsily transported to -the hives.