Show Bees Studied on I Delaware Coast Carefully Planned Experiment Experiment Experiment ment Will Vill Be Conducted to Solve Problems Pr Prepared pared b by the United States State Department of ot A Agriculture low How far will a hone honey bee fly from front the Ule hive for food What Is the economic limit to the distance tho the Insect Insect Insect In In- sect can travel for raw material ll By what means does It find new fields of or nectar nectar- yielding nectar flowers These are arc a afew u few of the worn time-worn questions which will be studied intensively by the United States Department of or ture A carefully planned c experiment will be conducted on the tho coast const of Delaware Delaware Dela Dela- ware me in fn a region having no nectar nectar- secreting flora Clorn The ollice of or bee culture culture culture cul cul- ture Investigations of the bureau of ot 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 conditions conditions con con- have on the flight activities of bees Flight Readily Controlled As the lie countryside e has lias no flowers that will divert the attention of the bees their flight can be readily controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled b by the placing of supplies of artificial food This honey How flow will willbe willbe be kept constant and und as a result un any variation in the activities will be caused primarily b by prevailing weather conditions Automatic feeders containing containing contain contain- in ing sugar solution of known specific gravity will at first be placed at distances distances distances dis dis- dis- dis from the hives varying from one-eighth one of or a n mile to three miles There will be ten colonies of Italian bees each colony on oa a scale so that variations In the weight ma may be studied Records will be made of the i Increases In weight during the day to learn the hour to hour variation In the honey income Records of loss of ot weight by evaporation at night will give information on the ripening of or hone honey lioney Move Feeders Gradually The feeders will gradually be move moved to greater greuter distances from the colonies to determine the limit of or flight from the effect of distance on the production of ot hone honey honey honey-an nn an economic factor from the standpoint of the bees and also from that of the beekeeper Some feeders loaded with will be placed In new and secluded places to determine l if f possible the methods followed by bythe bythe bythe the bee In searching for new sources and the time taken to Und tied them These and other obscure factors concerning the behavior of bees puzzling puzzling puzzling to beekeepers since antiquity l if solved will prove of or much benefit to the Industry |