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Show Bees Stung Poultry to Death. A remarkable caso of bees stinging poultry to death was recently reported to tho Kent (Eng.) Technical Education Educa-tion Authority. Mr. Charles Waghorn, of Paddock Wood, has a small orchard, orch-ard, in tho middlo of which aro many hives. Ono(day ho noticed bees worrying wor-rying six cockorols In a pen. Ho liberated lib-erated tho birds, but tho bees followed and subsequently attacked nearly all tho poultry. Two cockerels were stung to death, and sovoral others suffered so badly from Btings that thoy had to bo killed. Many of tho birds woro blinded by tho bees, and their heads were speckled and swollen. |