Piute County News | 1926-03-19 | Page 3 | Bees Taken on Trip to Land of Flowers

bees taken on trip to land of flowers we read the other day ot or the transporting of bees from southern california to utah and idaho where alfalfa and clover were in blos blossom soni these busy workers on what was certainly no holiday trip produced for their owners several tons of honey the season over at the points to which they were transported they were carried back to california for the winter where fruits and flowers were in abundant blossom and where they rewarded their owners by other tons of honey besides this there Is the vital work of pollination which these tiny creatures do this reminds us of the fact that j centuries before christ in egypt apiarists took their bees in open boats aloway up the nile so that as the blossoms came and went along the banks of that ancient river the little plunderers plunder era might rob them of their sweetness chicago evening post