MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 4,9 
of which I have repeated with preciscly the 
same results. Like his, our first experiment 
was to ascertain the acuteness of the sense. 
He concealed a vessel with honey behind the 
shutters of an open window, near the apiary. 
In my experiment, a small box, containing a 
portion of honey mingled with water, and 
covered witha piece of wire-gauze, was 
placed at a distance of one hundred yards 
from the apiary, where it was by no means 
conspicuous. In a quarter of an hour a Bee 
alighted on the box, and ina few minutes 
more, while this Bee was eagerly exploring 
and striving to gain an entrance, several 
more joined it. ‘The cover was then raised, 
and admission given ; and after the first visi- 
tors had gone off with a belly-full, the feeders 
increased in the space of an hour to hun- 
dreds. In another instance, a neighbor of 
mine living on the next block from me, 
bought a hive of honey for his own consump- 
tion, and kept it in the back part of his yard 
covered up, and they would go and cut out 
a piece as they wished it for their own use, 
