| Show old custom of telling bees of owners death A reader in it the united culled states sends rne me a cutting from an Ameil can news paper telling how the lute late dr charles james chemist and onried 14 hives ot A dees bees and linw offer tits abath one goirn disappeared and was round about the lie flowers on in tila big grave grae acore than ihno two miles uway peter simple writes in the lon LOD dou don pom apparently we are told the bees id had ciot becu informed irined of tits hla deat s in with willi hie 11 le ancient cia eus torn which Is still religiously ful fill title in country places I 1 am afraid I 1 can not enlighten my correspondent who passes on tv tu me the quer of 0 the die journal in question who first br thought thou glit of 0 telling the bees 0 of the death of diela wits mils ter aa j far ar na as hiso ir carries us back bach we have some letord of the ot of bees arid and the lie custom of telling the hees bees Is very likely almost as oli old ns as beekeeping bee keeping it has all the ap pe bearance arance ot of a rite which orl originated inabet in very early times and the net fact that it still survives Is a touching proof we ve still cling in some things at leisl to lo the wisdom or oily folly of our ancestors |
