30 Stings A Day
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter) HAILEYBURY (Canada). At an age when most girls are pre-occupied with new dresses and dancing, two girls in Haileybury, Ontario, are busy raising 24m bees. Sophie Bosch, aged 17, and her sister, Ann, aged 15, take 25 to 30 stings a day as a normal part of the business of producing honey. They wear a protective netting over their faces when the bees are fussy but, other than a smoker, they carry little protection. The girls lift frames laden with bees, search for queens, add superstructures to the hive to allow continued honey production and take care of all the chores around the swarming yards. They have grown up with bees and long ago lost their fear of them. Their father, Klaas, used to keep bees as a hobby in his native town of Apeldoorn in Holland before he came to Canada in 1947. He now has 400 hives.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30961, 18 January 1966, Page 2
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15430 Stings A Day Press, Volume CV, Issue 30961, 18 January 1966, Page 2
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