Show DOES NOT CARE TO WANDER Tho The Boo co Avoids Going More Than Thai r Miles Five FiTe for Rany Itaw material The range of at the honey bee is but little understood by the masses masses many supposing that bees go for miles in inquest inquest quest of nectar while others think that they go only a short distance It may be curious to many to understand t. t how bow anyone can tell how far the bee may fly but this is simple when un un- Years ag when the Italian bees were first Introduced in United States these bees bes having t marks different to the common bees already here bere were easily distinguished and after any beek beekeeper had obtained the Italian bees they could be observed and their range easily noticed If bloom Is plentiful near where bees are J. J lo located at th they y will not go very far far p perhaps perhaps per per- haps a Hills In range but If bloom la is scarce they may go five miles Usually r about three miles Is as far as they may go profitably Bees have been known to go as far as eight miles in a straight line Une crossing a body of water that i 1 distance to land It Is wonderful how J the little honey bee can ean go so far from o its home homo and ever find its way back J to its own particular hive If while the little bee is out of Its home or hive the hive should be removed some ten tenor tenor s sor or twenty feet according to the sure sur surroundings when it came back to where its Us home was first located it would be ba ti hopelessly lost If its home bome was in an ff open space with no other objects close 54 It might find its way home but even t- t 1 should the hive be moved moved only a few f feet many of ot the bees would get lost loot t So o to move a hive if done in the winter wintertime wintertime I time it would be all aU right but if in inthe inthe the summer time It should be done dono A after dark or when the bees are not flying and even then the bees should l be stirred up some and smoke blown In i at the hive entrance and a board or ore orsome o- o some e object placed In front of the hive so that the bees in coming out oat may mark their new location Bees no doubt are guided by sight and also by sense of smell They are attracted bythe by 1 the color of bloom as if they are at I fT work on a certain kind of bloom they of are not likely to leave that particular 1 kind of bloom for any other as long as they can find that kind Again bees A are aro often attracted to sweets by their 7 sense of smell for they will go after sweets even if in the dark if close However any kind of of- sweets may be bo placed in glass In plain sight but If covered so GO as not to emit any smell t. t y t the e bees will take no notice of them i |