American Bee Journal, Volumen8

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Dadant & Sons, 1873
Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations
 

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Página 66 - The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the post-office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud.
Página 182 - This has been observed by Mr. JL Hersey of New Hampshire (see the following note) : — EDS. BEES AND KING-BIRDS.- — For the last ten years I have carefully noted the habits and movements of the king-birds, and have come to the following conclusion, viz. : that they do eat the honey bee, and so does the purple martin ; but instead of being destroyed for it, they should be protected and allowed to build their nests near the farm-house, because they drive off the hawks, crows and other plundering...
Página 9 - These humble creatures cherish their queen, feed her, and provide for her wants. They live only in her life, and die when she is taken away. Her absence deprives them of no organ, paralyzes no limb, yet in every case they neglect all their duties for twenty-four hours.
Página 66 - If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount, whether it be taken from the office or not.
Página 53 - had been placed in a window in autumn, where the bees resorted to it in multitudes. It was removed, and the shutters closed during winter ; but when opened again, on the return of spring, the bees came back, though no honey was there. Undoubtedly they remembered it, therefore an interval of several weeks did not obliterate the impression they had received.
Página 23 - And after a time he returned to take her and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.
Página 7 - Regular and ordinary are popalar terms of well-known signification; normal has now a more specific sense, arising out of its use in science. A thing is normal, or in iti normal state, when strictly conformed to those principles of its constitution which make It what it Is.
Página 233 - This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown.
Página 256 - Packard is, however, inclined to think that the sex of this insect, as well as all animals from eggs, is determined at or about the time of conception, or, at least, early in the embryonic condition. In the honey-bee, especially, it has been proved that the sex is decided at the time the egg leaves the oviduct.
Página 270 - American species (Tenebrio obscurus), which has almost exactly the same habits, belongs to the same genus, and is of very nearly the same size, shape, and color, is comparatively quite rare among us, and is scarcely known to our millers and flour-dealers. On a careful and close examination, it will be found. that almost all our worst insect foes have been imported among us from the other side of the Atlantic.

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