Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — Colorado Bees at St. Louis. [ARTICLE]

Colorado Bees at St. Louis.

Mayor Swlnk, of Rocky Ford, Col., is an apiarist, and he has, perhaps, the largest bee plant in America. He is going to send his bees to the World’s Fair, and they will work at St. Louis from the time the Exposition opens until it closes. Mr. Swink’s plan, which will cost fully SIO,OOO of his own money is to bring to St. Louis enough bee hives to construct in miniature a counterpart of the Colorado State House, at Denver. The bees will then be turned out to find material for honeymaking in the coumry surrounding the World's Fair grounds. It will require about 640 hives to construct the little State House, and In it about 5,500,000 bees will work. A Colorado representative at the St. Louis Exposition said on this subject; "We have one bee man who works his bees all the year through. In summer they work in his alfalfa fields in Colorado, and in the fall he ships them to his plantation In Florida, where they work among the flowers and orange graces until time to return them to the west In the spring. In Colorado we have each yeai a Watermelon day, at Rocky Ford; a Potato day, at Greely; a Strawberry day, at Canon City, and a Fruit day, at Grand Junction. These are holidays, and In 1904 these celebrations will be held in St. Louts, and on these days Colorado fruit will be as free as water for those who celebrate with us.” By the use of a process invented at Bridgeport, Conn., wooden doors are being electroplated with coppor or brass. When a man gives himself away he naturally feels cheap.