1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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hive from which they had been taken. The 

 other bees at once recog-nized that there was 

 something wrong- with them, and gathered 

 round them much as they surround the 

 queen, and repeatedly tried to feed them; 

 but the injured workers could not guide 

 their tongues, and consequently did not take 

 food readily. One worker with its antennae 

 off was put on the alighting- board of its 

 own hive, but was at once repelled and car- 

 ried away by one of its own hive-mates. 



Drones act in a very similar manner, but 

 are frequently rejected by the workers as 

 soon as they are put in the hive. Huber 

 reports that, as soon as the light was ex- 

 ■iuded from his observatory hive, although 



was late in the afternoon, and no drones 

 were flying out, the drones from which the 

 antenna; had been cut deserted the hive, 

 since light was the only thing which at- 

 tracted them. 



From these observations it seems clear 

 that bees recognize each other very largely 

 by scent, but also by touch. The workers 

 and drones operated on were returned to 

 their own hive, and we would suppose that 

 they retained the odor of that hive; but 

 since they were not able to extend their an- 

 tenn;c' to the other bees they were at once 

 recognized as difi'ering in some way, and 

 received different attention. Langstroth 

 says of these experiments, " The inference 

 is obvious, that a bee deprived of her an- 

 tenna; loses the use of her intellect;" but 

 this statement should be modified some- 

 what, for the intellect is in no way in- 

 fluenced by the operation. The bee con- 

 tinues to respond normally to all sensations 

 which it has the organs to receive, for we 

 see that light still attracts them as it did 

 before; but on account of the one-sided re- 

 ception of stimuli its actions become abnor- 

 mal. 



It yet remains to be seen which segments 

 of the antennae receive certain odors, for 

 probably they are not all alike. It has 

 been found in ants that the different seg- 

 ments of the antenna' perceive differei t 

 kinds of odors, and the same is very prob- 

 ably true for bees. 



Medina, Ohio. 



HARRY CLINTON MOREHOUSE. 



Sketch of (he Short Life of the Secretary of 

 the Colorado State Bee-keepers' Associaticn. 



BY LEO VINCENT. 



On Sunday morning, July 24, at 3:30, oc- 

 curred the death of Mr. Harry Clinton 

 Morehouse, at his home in Boulder, Colora- 

 do, after an illness of but eight days, from 

 appendicitis. At no period during his brief 

 illness was it suspected by those in atten- 

 dance that the cause was other than stom- 

 ach trouble, which seemingly yielded to the 

 treatment administered. On Thursday a 

 period of convalescence came on which con- 

 tinued for two days, when suddenly a 



change came, and the victim rapidly sank 

 to his last sleep. An autopsy, held under 

 proper authority, disclosed the exact cause 

 to be a cancerous formation growing about 

 the lower abdomen, and immediate cause 

 appendicitis. 



Mr. Morehouse was born in Marengo, 

 Morrow Co., Ohio, April 15, 1869, being at 

 the time of his death thirty-five years three 

 months and nine days old. In 1893 he with 

 his father, Thomas H., and mother, Mary 

 V. Morehouse, together with a grandfather 

 and brother, removed from Ohio to Guth- 

 rie, Oklahoma. There the young man ap- 

 prenticed in the printing trade and later 

 became a junior partner of the writer. In 

 1897 he accompanied the writer to Boulder 

 to establish here the Colorado Representa- 

 tive. This being successfully accomplish- 

 ed, and having early acquired marked skill 



H. C. MOREHOUSE. 



in the handling of bees, he sold to its found- 

 er his interest in the printing-plant and in- 

 vested the same with other capital in an 

 apiary in 1900. About this time he was 

 married to Miss Mary Niles, of Boulder. In 

 1901 he established the Rocky Mountain Bee 

 Journal, and conducted the same with great 

 success and recognized ability by reason of 

 his keen scientific insight into the subjects 

 treated. Rapidly did his business increase 

 till this time, when he had under his con- 

 trol by far the largest number of stands of 

 bees of probably any one in the State. 

 In March last he sold his journal to a 



