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ered working bees, he extracts the box 
bottom, leaves it on a stump or a fence, 
and with the box in left hand and cover 
in right, which also slips over the bot- 
tom, he claps simultaneously the box and 
cover over a feeding bee, removes the 
little wood-slide a half inch, and the 
captured bee seeks the light above, 
when the slide is shoved gently into po- 
sition. If possible he captures four or 
five bees in this manner, returns to 
where he left the box bottom, adjusts the 
box over it, puts on the cover, which 
darkens the top compartment, slightly 
tips the box aw'ay from the bottom an 
eighth of an inch, just enough to let in 
some light, slowly and gently removes 
the slide far enough to allow the cap- 
tured bees to see the light below. Grad- 
ually each bee seeks the lower compart- 
ment trying to get out. Attracted by the 
bait, they soon cease buzzing and get 
busy filling up. When all buzzing has 
ceased the hunter slowly removes the 
box from the bottom and finds his bees 
helping themselves. Smiling at his suc- 
cess he contentedly sits down and awaits 
the departure o-f the bees. 
A BEE having filled arises, flies 
around the box a few times and be- 
gins to circle, rising higher each time 
until she has located her hive, and then 
is off on a straight course for home. 
The several captured bees leave in this 
way, and the hunter has “timed” each 
one — noted the second of departure of 
each. 
In five minutes, say, the first bee to 
leave has returned, and after buzzing 
around the bait a few times alights, 
sticks her head into a half filled cell and 
gets busy. The hunter has wet some 
chalk in the palm of his left hand and 
with the point of his knife-blade marks 
her with the chalk on the back. It is 
just a tiny speck, but dries very quickly 
and will remain all day and sometimes 
longer. Generally the bee takes no no- 
tice of the light touch; if it does and 
arises, it will soon go back to feeding 
again. The bee is thus marked for fu- 
ture identification, which will be seen is 
quite essential. 
In a minute or two she has filled and, 
rising, makes a few circles around the 
box, then is off for home. The hunter 
times her departure, and so marks each 
bee that comes back, but in a different 
spot on the body, so he can tell them 
apart. There may be two different 
“lines” — perhaps only one, all of the bees 
being from the same hive. 
With great satisfaction he sees the 
first marked bee return — her time of go- 
ing and coming five minutes. This indi- 
cates the hive is one-fourth mile away. 
Ten minutes indicates one-half mile, fif- 
teen minutes three-fourths, and twenty 
minutes one mile, thirty minutes a mile 
and a half ; but seldom does a hunter find 
a bee working that far from home unless 
flowers are scarce and it is a very calm 
day. If by chance he finds a bee has 
been gone twenty-five or thirty minutes 
he recaptures her and moves up on the 
line a half mile or more and relines her 
from a new position. 
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