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in detail. Tlie following table shows the general 

 result : — 



" The precautions taken seem to me to have placed 

 the colours on an equal footing ; while the number 

 of experiments appears sufficient to give a fair 

 average." As this table differs in form from the 

 other, it may be as well to explain the first line of 

 figures in illustration of the whole. The first series 

 consisted of eleven experiments. The preferences 

 were noted as before, and when the numbers indicat- 

 ing these were added up, the results were that 

 twenty-six represented the total for the blue glaSs, 

 thirty-nine for the green, fifty-one for the orange, 

 sixty-five for the plain glass, fifty-five for the red, 

 thirty-five for the white, and thirty-seven for the 

 yellow — the blue being again manifestly the most 

 attractive colour to the bees. Some practical bee- 

 keepers consider the question by no means settled. 

 The field is doubtless open for further exploration. 



