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used. This was all set down in the 

 t^eneral apiary book which we took 

 along with us during our round so 

 that he could not make any mis- 

 takes. All supers and frames were 

 to be well cleaned up and carefully 

 examined to see that all was proper- 

 ly nailed up and in good shape for 

 next season's service. This with 

 certain other shop work was enough 

 to keep him busy until spring work 

 came on. 



The latter part of November I 

 left for a winter's stay at my new 

 business, during which time I gave 

 it a good start. More territory 

 was explored and four more conven- 

 ient and suitable apiary sites were 

 selected and bees put on them from 

 the established yards. This made 

 nine yards in all and each con- 

 tained about the same number of 

 colonies. This was done in order, 

 then that there might be no mov- 

 ing of bees in the spring or busy 

 season when we weere expecting to 

 make a great amount of increase at 

 all yards. 



In the previous spring when I 

 had so much transferring done I 



had all the lumber in the box 

 hives saved and stacked up around 

 at the yards, this we made into 

 bottom boards for the increase. I 

 had some lumber cut and dressed 

 foujteen inches wide for covers. I 

 bad plenty of frames, etc. in the 

 supply room and all I lacked was 

 hive bodies. I went to a nearby 

 lumber yard and picked out the 

 most suitable lumber I could find 

 for this purpose and had it laid 

 down at the camp. We were busy 

 even losing considerable sleep in 

 order to catch up w'ith the work, 

 which we did about the middle of 

 February. 



Then I took a two weeks' vaca- 

 tion. Doves and quail being plentiful 

 I hunted some and spent some time 

 sight-seeing up and down the fa- 

 mous Suwanee river, noted for its 

 beauty and grandeur, which I can- 

 not take the time just now to des- 

 cribe. After I gave the man in 

 charge of the business full instruc- 

 tions as to what I expected him to 

 do, I bad© him adieu and returned 

 to Cordele to take up my business 

 there on March the first. 



Reason or Instinct? 



By DR. A. F. BONNEY, Buck Grove, Iowa 



In the Beekeepers' Review for 

 August, 1913 is an article entitled, 

 "Do Bees Reason?" I venture the 

 suggestion that this is a question 

 which will never be answered, be- 

 cause all that we can ever have is 

 the OPINION of observers, and note 

 how they differ! And here am I 

 with some opinions. 



It is very easy to adapt the writ- 

 ings and definitions of older if not 

 v.iser writers to our own way of 

 thinking, and while the definition 

 of Reason quoted, "Reason, or in- 

 telligence is the faculty which is 

 concerned in the intentional adaption 

 of means to ends," is good, there 

 ie no need to quote further, for 

 that is all there is to it, for it 

 is not denied, nor does it prove any- 

 thing in regard to the bees or oth- 

 er lower animals. It might, were 

 there nothing more to be consider- 

 ed in regard to the little workers, 

 but there is, and that is the strange 



thing which we humans call IN- 

 STINCT. What is that? The Cen- 

 tury dictionary says: "A special 

 inate propensity in any organized 

 being, but more especially in the 

 lower animals, producing effects 

 WHICH APPEAR TO BE THOSE 

 OF REASON AND KNOWLEDGE, 

 BUT WHICH transcend the general 

 intelligence or experience of the 

 creature; the sagacity of brutes." 



Here follow a few quotations, the 

 first from Romanes, as follows: 

 "All instincts probably arose in 

 one or other of two ways. ( 1 ) By 

 the effect of habit in successive 

 generations, mental activities which 

 V ere originally intelligent, become, 

 as it were, stereotyped into perma- 

 nent instincts. (2) The other mode 

 of origin consists in natural selec- 

 tion, or survival of the fittest con- 

 tinuously preserving actions which, 

 though never intelligent, yet hap- 

 pen to have been of benefit." 



