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Most apiarists have supposed that bees thrive only on nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods. He fed them nectar, laced with essences of fruits, fruit-tree leaves, aromatic grasses like mint. The honeyed results were pleasing. Fruit-fed bees produced honey rich in vitamin C; mint-fed bees gave honey that had pleas ant fragrance as well as taste...
...Then Arefyeff began to dose his bees with medicines. When he gave them a concoction of honey and quinine, they gave back quinine-loaded honey. The converted honey medicine proved easier for a human being to assimilate than the medicine itself...
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