Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1898 — Says The Bees Wou’t Swarm. [ARTICLE]

Says The Bees Wou’t Swarm.

Goodland Herald. Why don’t the bees swarm? is a question that is agitating the minds of some of our bee raisers They cling to the outside of the hives in great numbers and show no disposition to either work or Ben P. Davidson says if they continue to loaf around and eat up their substance they will be in as bad fix as he was when he first got married and started out for himself. He managed to make enough through the week to feed his friends on Sunday and every Monday morning he had to retackle life on one pancake and a florid imagination.