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to our bees, and the only ill effect I saw was that some didn't get 

 enough of it. 



I have since fed several hundred pounds of granulated beet 

 sugar in the form of thin syrup out doors without noticing any ill 

 effect. 



(It may be that Wisconsin beet sugar is the same as that pro- 

 duced in Colorado and likely is, for just listen to what Prof. Sanders 

 of the University of Wisconsin, has to sav about the clipping referred 

 to:) 



The Associated Press reporter was entirely erroneous, because I 

 did not speak before the bee-keepers' meeting regarding the feeding 

 of bees, nor have I carried on any experiments along this line. Pub- 

 lication of this report has caused me no end of trouble, and a tre- 

 mendous lot of correspondence, not only with bee-keepers but with 

 sugar manufacturers . 



I trust that you will prepare a paragraph in contradiction of the 

 report. A^ery truly yours, , 



J. G. Sanders, 



Entomologist. 



Do Bees Reason? 



By JAMES ODELL, Lincoln, Nebr. 



BY "WAY or FBEFACE. 



y m HE over lordship of man in the realm of conscious intelligence 

 \^ appears to have confirmed the average individual in the belief 

 that the human possesses all that may be substantially proven 

 to the thinking brain. The scientific world, to be sure, has long 

 since progressed beyond this common egoism and has "patiently 

 delved at the problem of animal consciousness and intelligence with 

 progress so substantial as to throw much light on the beginnings of 

 life and reason, as well as the evolution of species and the science of 

 breeding. 



It is scarcely conceivable that the average man — a sort of imper- 

 sonal "straw man" whom one can criticise without offense — should 

 reason out the fine distinctions of animal ethics, or comprehend why 

 the same soil, atmosphere and sunshine should paint the violet with 

 blue, the rose with red and the lily with gold. Certainly not. He, 

 poor fellow, is chiefly intent on getting his share of the goods of this 

 world and holding them against the cupidity of his fellow mortals, 

 and this task leaves small space for speculative philosophy. His is 

 a higher mission (?) ; he is making money, or trying to. 



