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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ing, storing,nursing, cleaning and ventilating. Thelatter is effected by the wings, and causesthe humming noise heard within the hive.Bees near the opening face it and fan;other bees, with their backs to theentrance, carry the current on into allthe passages until the air is cooled andpurified in the most perfect manner. Aveteran aparian says he learns somethingnew, or, better appreciates some marvel-lous fact about his little charges, everyyear. I do wonder if a woman could man-age an apiary? Id like to have one,some time, said Edith. It is a business so well adapted towomen, was the reply, that it is sur-prising more are not engaged in it. Beesare social little creatures, who learn verysoon to know the wishes of the aparian,and only in rare cases use the sting.Should this happen, however, almostimmediate relief is effected by the appli-cation of onion juice. The improvedhive, the separator, the artificial waxfoundation, have made bee keepingalmost a pastime. • Belle Tax son Drury.
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CARDINAL. (Cardinalis cardinalis). ?-.< Life size. THE CARDINAL BIRD. (Cardinalis cardinalis.) Upon the gray old forests rim I snuffed the crab-trees sweet perfume;And farther, where the light was dim, I saw a bloomOf May-apples, beneath the tentOf umbrel leaves above them bent;Where oft was shifting light and shadeThe blue-eyed ivy wildly strayed;And Solomons-seal, in graceful play,Swung where the straggling sunlight lay:The same as when I earliest heardThe Cardinal Bird. -William Davis Gallagher, The Cardinal Bird. Fortunate are they who live in therealm of the Cardinal. Who, indeed, isnot entranced by the beautiful life of thisbird? Not only the poets, but also alllovers of bird-life have been inspired byits beautiful garment of cardinal feathersand the exemplary habits of both the maleand his mate. They love each other intheir bird-like way and their lives arefull of devotion to each other and to theiroffspring. The more somber and dove-colored female, with the dull red plum-ag

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