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Show Bees Addicted to "Dope." Just add this one to all the queer things that have happened in the year of grace 1913 and believe it's true, because be-cause W. E. Baker, deputy auditor of the state of Ohio, says he can prove it. The honey bees near Fostoria, which is Baker's home town, have contracted contract-ed the opium habit. Like the Chinese, they get theirs from the poppy. Baker Bak-er and many other residents of Foo-toria Foo-toria grow oriental poppies. The bees have found this out, and of late they are leaving acres of clover blossoms to hunt out the poppy beds. They work very vigorously for an hour or so and then fall to the ground apparently.as stupefied as are opium smokers afteT "hitting the pipe." Fostoria (Ohio) dispatch to New York Sun. |