THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
8.4 
in length. The brain, the facets of the 
eye, the optic nerves extending from 
each facet have been projected twenty- 
five feet in diameter with every detail 
clearly visible. Thus the brain and the 
eyes of the honeybee may be made 
larger than the apiarian building itself. 
The muscles controlling the legs of the 
honeybees are projected to look like 
huge cables with every fiber plainly 
apparent. The hooking together of the 
wings on each side of the bee is clearly 
of Stamford, Connecticut, well-known 
as the veteran expert beekeeper in this 
part of the country. He happened to 
be present as a thunderstorm was ap- 
proaching and sending the worker bees 
rushing in from the fields. His en- 
thusiasm was intense and he declared 
that never in all his experience had he 
seen so beautiful a sight as that home 
rushing of the field bees. He predicted 
a wonderful crop of honey. 
He was right. Never in the two en- 
ONE OF THE MANY CLASSES OF YOUNG FOI KS IX DIRECT ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE 
BEES. 
engaged in the folded edge of the other, 
the magnification being some fifteen or 
twenty feet in length. It is not at all 
unusual to show to visitors and stu- 
dents greatly magnified views of the 
feet of honeybees and occasionally the 
sting is shown in actual operation and 
enormously magnified. 
So intense and devoted has been the 
scientific care of the honeybees that 
never in the whole twenty years have 
we had a case of foul brood or of any 
other disease. The official inspectors 
have always pronounced the apiary as 
of the highest possible standard. 
This last summer among the many 
other experts that visited the apiary 
from time to time was our occasional 
visitor and good friend, Mr. L. C. Root 
shown, with the hooks on one wing 
tire decades has there been such a store 
of honey as we have this year. Every 
super, every section, every frame has 
been brought into service and all have 
been filled to the extreme edges, and 
more than half the sections were 
graded, in the terms of the market, as 
“fancy.” We have had a deluge of 
high grade honey, and not a pound of 
it has been sold. The teaching “Freely 
receive freely give” has been literally 
accepted. Every visiting party has 
been treated to honey, and none of the 
friends of the apiary that have visited 
it has gone away empty handed. We 
hardly dare tell how many hundreds 
of pounds of high grade section honey 
have thus been distributed. The man- 
agement felt that in the present high 
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