DUSTY BEES.'
Some further account has reached me from the unhappy. Argentine of the fate of the bees which as a rule find their optimum in that part of the country. They died in their tens of thousands after the Chile eruptions and the fall of vast quantities of fine dust thousands of miles to the East. I had presumed that this was wholly due to the clogging of the pores by the dust; but it seems that, ;hough many died from the direct effects of the fall, numbers were done to death by their fellows when they returned to the hive polluted by the unpleasant dust. The accounts of the plague of locusts- are the worst I have read. A correspondent describes how she could not even walk in her garden for the slipperiness of the paths ! Why should both South America and North-West Africa suffer especially from this plague over the same series' of years ?
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