How Bees Gather Honey

Bees gather honey by the aid of tbeir "trunk," "lower lip" or "tongue," wbich is used as au instrument for extracting the uectar from flowers. The "tongüe" of a bee is not, as was once íhought to be the case, a tube trough which the juic? is sucked, but is built more after the fashiou of a fine broom. With this broom the bee brushesor laps the honey or honey material from the flowers, leaves, etc., and passes it down a groove in the upper surfaoe of tho tongue to the mouth proper. From that point the juioe is conveyed throngh a minute orifica into the "first stomach, " vulgarly called the "honey bag.!' The "honey bstg" is a real chemical laboratory, where, by eome mysterious prooess whjoh hiia not yet been explained by science, the juices are converted into pure houey. When the chemical prooess of trausformiug their nectar into viscid honey has been completed, the bee disgorges it into one of the cells made for the purpose of a receptacle. Por years the microscopists and tha entomologists have been studying the bee's laboratory, bnt its workings are at present among the unexplained teries