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• The red clover produces a vast amount of food for the bumble-bee, but is of no use at all to the honey-bee. —  Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
• He had watched them often from the top of a tree, and he always enjoyed the fun, because they did such queer things It was some minutes before he could find out what they were doing, but at last he discovered that they had found a bumble-bees' nest. —  Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories
• When he was near enough, he began talking to them in an angry way Why, Mr. Jones," Coonie heard one boy say, "you don't use bumble-bees' honey, do you No, boys, I don't use the honey myself, but I don't want you to kill the bees or rob their nests so they will have to starve. —  Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories
• Bees do a great deal of good on the farm What good are bumble-bees?" —  Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories
• They distribute the pollen from the heads of the clover, and that makes the seed mature and develop This was news to Coonie, for he never knew before that bumble-bees were of any use, but then he had never had much to do with them. —  Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories

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