Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1903 — The Busy Bees Get Busy. [ARTICLE]

The Busy Bees Get Busy.

W. H. Eger rounded up and pot his brand on a swarm of stray honey bees, last Friday morning, which had settled in some trees in his father’s yard, on Van Rensselaer street. Bill says it is the greatest year for bees to make bbney and produoe new swarms, he ever knew. He states for instance, that one of his swarms has sent out three new ones this year, besides packing away an immense amount of honey. And the oldest of these new swarms have filled their hive and top cases with honey, and are also seriously discussing the proposition of themselves engaging the new swarm business. So fast and frequent are the old swarms “swarming” this year that Andy Veoman, of southeast of town, has caught a number of fine swarms by simply hanging empty hives in his trees labeled “Furnished flats to let. Enquire within,” and the bees move right in, and ask no questions about the quality of the neighborhood or how long the wall paper has been on. A good swarm of bees will fill a hive with honey in an astonishingly short time, this year, and of the . finest quality, too. And it is all, or mainly, owing to the great crop of white olover, which whitens every pasture, lawn and roadside this year. There is nothing like white clover for fiae honey, and lots of it.