A Secret Of Tile Hive.
One of the small details that has made enquiry easier is the discovery that the cellulose paint or varnish (such as is used for adding a flourish to our motor-cars) is an ideal......
Country Life
SX ROTUAMSTED ENQUIRY. Among the many new lines of enquiry which are now being followed at Rothamsted, the oldest and best agri- cultural station in the world, is the life of......
A Beneficent Grass..
On November 16th, at the Royal Society of Arts, some account is to be given of a beneficent plant possessing an unusual history. It is a variety of the Spartina grass that is......
The Process Of Research Is Not Less Interesting Than The
discovery. A comb-ful of bee grubs is removed from the hive and put into an incubator (kept approximately at blood-heat). The young bees when they hatch are singularly docile.......
To Begin With The Essential Fact. The Bees In Every
hive ..njoy progressive employment. They begin as housemaids, they arc promoted to be nursemaids and conclude as house- keepers or at any rate as caterers. The system works Very......
The Early Career Is Singularly Uniform. First They Hang...
the comb from which they emerged, and spend their t ime—in rather a lay.. y and desultory manner—in cleaning out the cells and making them fit for further use. As their zeal and......
The Germans Have Done Much Original Work On This Subject
and Mr. Morland at Rothamsted has been working on their theories, which on the whole, though with qualifications, he corroborates ; and the Rothamsted work should prove of......
New Activities.
This enquiry into the ways of bees is one example out of several of the extension of the activities of Rothamsted. It was founded to study soil. It has grown under Sir John......
Now Suppose The Hive Is Not Big Enough To Hold
more comb, more honey, or suppose the season is so unfavourable as to interfere with the storing, the system more or less breaks down. Promotion, as I have said, is blocked. An......
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