Gunnison Valley News | 1926-03-18 | Page 2 | Bees Taken on Trip to Land of Flowers

Bees Taken on Trip to Land of Flowers We read Ihe other day of the transporting trans-porting of 2.0110,000,0110 bees from southern California to I'lah and Idaho, where alfalfa and clover were in blossom. These busy workers, on what was certainly no holiday trip, produced for their owners several tons of honey. 'Ihe season over at the points to which they were transported, trans-ported, Ihey were carried back to California Cal-ifornia for tin.' wilder, where fruits and llowers were in abundant bios Horn anil where they rewarded their owners by other Ions of honey. lie Hides this there Is the vilal work oi pollination which those tiny creatures do. This reminds us of the fact that centuries before Christ, In Egypt, nplnrlsts took their bees in open boats slowly up the Nile so that, as the blossoms came and went along the banks of that ancient river, (lie little plunderers might rob them of their Bweefness. Chicago livening Post.