23/10/2021
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In 1898, a well-to-do German farmer, who lives between Forest City and Susquehanna, Pennsylvania cut down a huge bee tree, and made a grizzly discovery. Read the article below...if you think you can bear it.
Image: HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 3, 1883
Robbing a Wild Bee Hive
circa. 1898 - A Grizzly Discovery.
Leslie Dickman, a well-to-do German farmer, who lives between Forest City and Susquehanna, Pa., recently cut down a huge bee tree, apparently healthy at the top, but dead and hollow at the base. While cutting the third section with a crosscut saw the blade struck a hard substance, and the section was sawed off only after hard work. The center of the tree was hollow, and in the cavity was found the skeleton of a big bear. In the skull of the animal were found a small nest of bees and some honey. Years ago the bear crawled into the hollow of the tree to secure honey and ate so much that he could not get out.
- New Oxford, Pennsylvania, 1898
