THE BEES WORKED OVERTIME.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 2

THE BEES WORKED OVERTIME.

The latest bee story comes from an American beekeeper, who dates from Minneapolis. It is full of freshness, but rather melancholy. Here it is : “An arc light, emitting a powerful illumination, was put up last spring near my bee-hive. The night ! it was put up my bees, mistaking its light for daylight, worked like beavers, though dead tired, i When dawn came, the light was extinguished, the bees, quite worn out, turned in ; but, 10, in a few minutes the sun was shining, and owt the : poor, bedraggled little creatures hurried again, for no bee will consent to pass the daylight hours in idleness. They got through the day somehow, and at dusk, after thirty-six hours of unceasing toil, they once more turned in. Alas, the arc light began to hiss and glow again, and the poor bees, worn to shadows, bent, pallid, staggered forth for another round of labour. By the end of the week all the bees were dead of overwork.”