January 15, 1902. Adair County News:Mr C.W. Bryant of Purdy was in town Monday and inrormed the News - man that he had thirty seven stands of bees and all seemed to be wintering well. Mr Bryant is a successful bee man and sells much honey. He could make the business much more profitable if his bees could work both day and night, while the bloom is on the vine and the honey dew on the leaf.

He offers $5.00 for a stock of bees able to gather sweetness at night. Some experiments have been made in this county, so we have heard, to produce a bee capable of working at night as well as in the day, Mr Bryant is thinking of crossing with the lightning bug to obtain the desired result. We understand that a citizen of Joppa has experimented on the above line and succeeded to a remarkable degree.