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Show The Energetic Bee. Great, Indeed, U tho amount of work which a busy boo will do In a day. Every head of clover consists of about 00 flower tubes, each of which contains a very, small quantity of sugar. Bees will often visit a hundred hun-dred different heads of clover boforo retiring to tho lilvc, and in order to obtain tho sugar necessary for a load must, therofore, thrust their tougucs Into about 6,000 different flowers. A beo will mako 20 trips a day when tho clover patch Is convenient to tho hlvo, and thus will draw tho sugar from 120,000 different flowers in tho coureo of a slnglo day's work. |