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Show The Energetic Bee. Great, indeed, is the amount of work which a busy bee will do in a day. Every head of clover consists of about CO flower tubes, each of which contains a very small quantity of sugar. Decs will often visit a hundred hun-dred different heads of clover beforo retiring to tho hive, and In order to obtain tho sugar necessary for a load must, thcreforo, thrust their tongues Into about 6,000 different flowers. A beo will make 20 trips a day when tho clover patch Is convenient to tho hive, and thus will draw tho sugar from 120,000 different flowers in tho courso of a stnglo day's work. |