Show Bees Studied on Dela Delaware ware Coast Carefully Planned Experiment Experiment Experiment ment Will Win Be Conducted r to Solve Problems i Prepared by the United States Department of et Agriculture How far will a honey beo bea fly from the hive for food What Is the economic limit to the distance t the e Insect in in- 1 sect cnn can travel for raw material By f what means does It find new fields fields' of I yielding nectar flowers These are aI afew a n I few of the worn time orn questions which 1 will will willbe be studied intensively by the United States Department of A I ture A carefully planned experiment win will be ho conducted on the coast coast of Dela Dela- ware In a region having no nectars nectar- nectar s secreting flora The office ollice of bee culture culture cul cul- ture Investigations of the bureau of entomology announces that one of the principal objects of the work Is to determine determine determine de de- de- de termine the effect various weather con conditions con cod have on the flight activities of bees Flight Readily Controlled As the countryside has no flowers that will divert the attention of the bees their flight can cnn be readily controlled con COIl trolled oiled by the placing of supplies of This Tilts flow wIllbe willbe artificial food honey boney will willbe be kept constant and as a result any variation in it the flight activities will be caused primarily by prevailing weather conditions Automatic feed feeders rs containIng containing contain contain- ing lag sugar solution of known specific gravity will at first be placed at distances dis ills maces from the hives varying from one-eighth one of a mile t to three miles There will be ten colonies of Italian bees each colony on a scale BO so that variations In the weight may be 1 studied Records will be mn made le of the increases in weight during curing the uie day to iu LV learn the hour to hour variation In the I honey Income Records of of loss of ot weight b by evaporation at night will j give information on th the ripening of I honey I Move F Feeders eders Gradually I Tb The Tbt t feeders ed rs will gr gradually dually be moved I Ito to greater distances s from the colonies to d determine ter fermi e the limit of flight from the effect of i distance on the production I of honey honey factor from the standpoint of ili the bees and also from froni that of the tile beekeeper Some feeders lo loaded ded with will be placed In new and secluded places to determine 1 If possible the methods followed by bythe bythe bythe the bee In searching for new new sources and the time taken to to fn find them These rhese and arid other obscure factors concerning the behavior ot of bees p puzzling puzzling z- z I to bee beekeepers pers since antiquity y if It solved will prove of much benefit to I the I industry |