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- from a camping trip. The tiny Busy Bees Don't Work Too Hard We didn't see a bee all day, for a high wind came up while Allen Woodrow was driving me to his field laboratory in the desert south of Tucson, The hives set out by his feeding stations among the cacti and scrub mes- quites could have been empty, for all the apian life visible. "Farmers I know about" I said, "when weather keeps them , inside they catch up on their barn chores and maybe sharpen their hoes or plow disks. But what do outside worker bees do when wind-bound?" "Sharpen their stingers, may- be," Allen grinned. Even I knew better than that, and he went on to explain that the busy: bee isn't nearly so in- dustrious as popular legend has it. Even on a calm and sunny day, workers supposed to be out collecting nector or pollen do much loafing within the hive. "The exact reason js one of a million things we don't know about bees," admitted Allen, one of the six apiarists 'on the staff of 'the Department of Agricul- ture's beekeeping and insect- pathology laboratory on the Uni- versity of Arizona campus. His own assignment is to study bee behavior, and some of his findings are fascinating, even if he does discount their import-_ ance. : Lado An immediate aim--is--t6* find bee repellents and attractants. He has .set up feeding stations from which the workers may carry away sugar syrup flavored with various substances. His work is slowed in a season like the present spring, when native flowers afe unusually plentiful, Bees prefer natural nectar to anything man can offer. Not one reliable repellent has turned up that would keep bees away from public places such as swimming pools, or enable the beekeeper to discard his custom- ary mask, gloves and smoker. Anise flavor delights bees, but this was no surptise because anise has long been used by bee- -~-tree hunters who gather wild honey in the southern states. Lemon, orange, vanilla, winter- green, and many others are ig- nored. The search is far from hopeless, however. It is certain: that blossoms vary greatly=iin- "attractiveness and not always be- cause of their nectar or pollen.' Mr. Woodrow has observed bees crawl in and out of white clover and snowberry blooms for hours after anything remained to harvest. "They particularly like certain flowers and if we knew why we'd be much further along." The higher the sucrose concen- tration in syrup the better bees like it, up to 50 per cent. Above that they like it less, and they will turn away from an 80 per cent. solution. They stop work- ing when the outdoor temper- ature reaches 104 degrees, retire to the hive where in some strange fashion the colony main- tains a temperature that averages close to 93 degrees, winter or summer, Although he has spent half a lifetime around bees, and has read almost every modern book about them that is printed in English, Allen Woodrow can an- swer few questions about what goes on within the hive, writes Ernest Douglas in The Christian Science Monitor. Some bees fly around search- ing for more flowers or for more desirable kinds. Are they the restless ones who just prefer to roam, or are they assigned in some way? Who decides that some shall gather pollen, others nectar? The scouts communicate their news by doing a dance in the hive that is readily interpreted by the collectors. Sometimes, however, the scouts are com- pletely ignored even though it would be to the advantage of the colony to follow their advice. Why? Apiarist in charge of the bee- keeping laboratory, largest «of seven in the Agricultural Re- search Administration, is Frank E. Todd. Although much of his time is taken up with adminis- trative duties and teaching a 55- student University of Arizona class in beekeeping, he manages to carry on much research. Among his many achievements before coming to Arizona was to help prove that bees tremendous- ly increase alfalfa seed yields, a discovery that has been worth millions of dollars to farmers, In Arizona Mr. Todd and S. E. McGregor proved that bees in the cantaloupe field at blossom- ing time will double the yield of salable melons and reduce misshapen culls to almost noth- ing for the imperfect: ones have 'I' developed from flowers not com- pletely fertilized. Messts, Todd and McGregor say they are sure that bees would do -the same for watermelons, cucumbers, strawberries, and many another garden crop. Mr. McGregor, since 1951, has concentrated on cotton hybrid- ization, a field where opportun- ities are great but obstacles tre- mendous.- Bees scorn cotton pol- len, and production of hybrid seed without them is t6o costly; neearly every cotton blossom is fertilized with its own pollen. In experiments, where bees were confined and forced to work on cotton blooms, long-staple yields have been increased 25 per cent. Mr. McGregor believes that short-staple yields can be raised from two to three bales an acre to six or seven, as soon as plant breeders develop a variety with sounding balloons, Joint Effort To insure that scientists the world around coordinate their experiments, one of the world's greatest communication com- plexes ever put together for the service of science has been set up at Fort Belvoir, Va. The structure in. which it is housed is anything but imposing, but from this building beginning July 1, 1957, and for 18 months, warnings and information will be sent out to scientists in all parts of the world, It is one of the nerve centers of the interna- tional geophysical year. - From there scientists will be alerted to look for unusual ac- tivity in cosmic rays, northern lights, earth magnetism, the earth satellite, and on the say- "so of the man in charge, scien- tists will send up high-pressure launch in. strument-packed rockets into the ionosphere and conduct nu- merous other experiments. In testing the equipment more than 40 nations have reported re- ceipt of messages from the Fort Belvoir center. When the tests and experi- ments get under way July 1, we will be seeing one of the great- est explorations ever conducted: by man--a cooperative effort to add a few more facts to our very limited knowledge of our earth and its relation to the universe. . --Oregon Journal, Zoo officials in Paignton, Eng., worried about the health of their more delicate monkeys during chilly weather, installed infra- red lamps in the cages. The monkeys are reported doing fine. &: & ® 5 Ch wd SPRING TIME -- This youngster jumps to the tantalizing stream of water and decides that it's definitely not the fountain of youth. But the effort no doubt made it taste all the better. Fireworks! " The shooting off of fireworks on special occasions is an anci- ent custom. The Romans are credited, with introducing fire- works into Europe from India CALL OF THE WILD MUST BE FADING -- Foraging in their native appeal for these young animals than being fed in the cuddlin At left a two-month-old bear cub, "Spring," ton. Her group of water stars have adopted *he offspring of a F center Marcheta Mclain bottle-feeds a barn. Thy cute creature hasn't yet used h wallaby on the right nibbles from a spo England. 1's a small member of the kangaroo species. a 5 Pe Aa SILER Rb ¥ habitats apparently has less g arms of fair young ladies. gets along i igi with mermaid Betty Pat- [3 rida brown bear. In the aby skunk she found with two others In her father's is natural equipment on his benefactress. on held by an attendant at the Whipsnade Zoo in A young THE Farmers in Canada and the United States aren't the only ones having their difficulties, ac- cording to this dispatch by Peter Lyne, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. * * * Britain's cows and chickens are causing a great deal of em- barrassment by their new en- thusiasm for increased produc- tivity. The cows are providing so much surplus milk that the au- thorities are dumping millions of gallons of unwanted skim milk 'in disused quarries, on open spaces such as airfields, and down the drains. * * * As to the biddies they are 'being positively tactless. Just when Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh are visiting Denmark this week on a good-will tour, the chickens go and lay so many eggs that the Danes, who are traditional suppliers of eggs to Britain, are growing concerned. . * * * But bless their hearts, - the chickens can hardly be expected to feel much sympathy for the international complications caus- ed by their enthusiasm. Succes sive British governments have been setting higher targets for home food production and pay- ing higher support prices as an inducement. * * * During World War II and for FARM FRONT ohavRussell -- Fo Iie BALL the present situation of food surpluses was "survival of the fittest." The less efficient farm« . ers would have been allowed to go broke, - But in these days when farm production has been pushed up and kept up by large- scale government inducements and support prices, the idea of just withdrawing the support is 'not politically practical or mor- ally tolerated. * * * Agricultural slumps are likely to set off industrial slumps. Be- sides, at the back of the minds of British governments is the realization of two things: } 1. From a defense point of _ view, British agriculture cannot be allowed to slip into the dol- drums, - 2. World population and food needs are rising so rapidly. that the day may come when Britain would have to join the end of a queue for imported food, So the Minister of Agriculture, Derick Heathcoat Amory, was urging the House of Commons May 20 not to panic about the flood of milk and the weight of eggs. He said that at present the surpluses were largely seasonal. He urged people to consumae more milk and eggs. He pointed to Americans, who, he said, eat 50 per cent more eggs per head than Britons, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking Gas Drive There's feverish behind-the- scenes activity these days as the biggest natural gas exploration drive in Ontario's history gets under way, The hot search is under the waters of Lake Erle. The rush of applications flooding into the Ontario Government since last January seeking underwater ex- ploration permits now blanket virtually the entire north shore of the lake from the Detroit River right up to the Niagara River. Close to 1.5 million acres are involved. The applications are seeking acreage extending from a mini- mum of two miles from shore to 17 miles offshore. Part of the acreage in front of Essex coun- ty runs out to the international boundary. Plans at the moment are to drill some 50 offshore wells this season. A lot will depend on availability of special, offshore drillings rigs. Half a dozen more rigs are now being rushed to completion with as many more in the later planning stages. © for 22 years. By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A, B.D, Joseph, a Favorite Son Genesis 37:3-8, 23-24, 28, 31-84 Memory Selection: Be ye kind one to another, tender-heart forgiving one another, even God for Christ's sake hath for glven you, Ephesians 4:32, In boyhood we read m good books for boys. Some the Alger storles are still vivid~ in memory. But the story Joseph surpasses them all, Joge eph was the favored son of Ji cob's favorite wife, Rachel. wasn't Joseph's fault that father loved him more than his children. But God used eves this in the moulding of Josers We are not suggesting that { was proper for Jacob to show such favortism but we do bes lieve that God in his sovereignty can overrule all things to ae complish his purpose. The' hatred of his brethren tended to m Joseph an individualist. He not run into evil with his breths ren but instead brought to his father their evil report. Joseph has been criticized f telling his dreams which seem to place him in a commandl position, But he could hard] do otherwise, They must have been very real to him. They were a symbol of his emerging greatness. At the age of 17 Joseph wag prompt in his obedience to his father. He was persistent, a quality essential in great accom plishments. When his brothers were not to be found at She- chem as expected he kept seek- ing till he found them. To be sold into slavery by one's brethren would break the spirl$ of most people and embitter thera forever against society, But not so with Joseph as we shall see in the next two lessons, Today's lesson closes with Jacob's great. mourning as he gazed on Joseph's bloody coa$ and believed him to have been slain by a beast. Years befors, Jacob had slain a kid of thé goats in preparing to deceive his father. Now his sons deceive him. Isaac was under the da- ception for a few hours; Jacob "Be sure your sin will find you out." iy a and China and, by the 15th cen- a time afterward Britons were ara FEIN 3 acceptable po oo ; Hint tury, Italians had devised scenic rationed to one or two eggs a EGBG - HO LINIY Larvae Eons ove » Wg) i effects by skillfully arranged week each, Probably to a hen's Kl n Dio Roney to winter was. So every | fing of combustibles A% fr | Ja, of nc, th fol bers | |ARASGEINGING | . } leew catch up. ee 2 colony is weak in early spring, they phi Sa levampany Britons have Soh re vy J BIG BUSINESS NOW-Disneyland, Walt Disney's famous play- when pollinators are mos}, need- the 17th Lindi they've been | to reading about American farm 3 d|3 ny ground for youngsters of all ages, has b : Nig Lire ed in fields and orchards. So markin Try sper such 8 surpluses and how those sur- SEMEL 34 Ly 4 g ih all ages, has Seame vig business | Dr. L. N. Standifer, also of the 8 nts s pluses have. to.be siored-away : . rly tour million visitors spent 10 million dollars thera : IVIg to put coronations, royal marriages and JIA Y last year. As it starts the 1957 season Disneyland expects to i laboratory staff, is trying to p births, and peace celebrations or given as ald to foreigners. | ; al A p Ws vi together a pollen substitute with Hanh ob tain i Toole The big surprise is to find Brit- entertain a half million more than last year. Visitors enter over JUST IN' CASE" -- Taking no the help of Dr. A. R. Kemmerer, for Pe ons 53 ZAI. tlre ain in something of the same 3] v ol a real drawbridge, through Sleeping Beauty's Enchanted Castle, | AN Wolong no University of Arizona biochemist nen aS ee > sort of boat considering that this M i vida latest addition to the park. Above, Shirley Temple, former child chances 3 rs. d f who is conducting involved re- 3 Nila like deli ht in the sizzle country by tradition is one of 3d vid star, garbed as the "Beauty," and Walt Disney officially open Sanders, as she feeds one o search into the nutritional value child g the world's biggest importers of VIM 3 the Castle. -- the eight baby skunks her 16- year-old son brought home ) bottle is fine for nursing the or- phans, who, so far atleast," - have minded their manners. of honey. "Now, Junior, be a good boy and say 'Ah-h-h' so the doctor can get his finger out of your mouth." s rableland 21 Place of wor- | 9 Old Testament ship (ab.) and 'glitter of rockets against a night sky. Only a few wecks ago, a highlight of the visit of Queen Elizabeth to France was a fireworks extravaganza ar- ranged by the city of Paris in her honor. In Canada, fireworks are such a popular finale to special events that one company alone produces fifty million items a year. The food. . . * Before World War II Britain grew only about half its food requirements. Change -is often slow in agriculture. But today the revolution in greater effi- ciency Is really under way. Bet- ter breeding policies and better feeding methods and pasture management have sent average 34 Elaborate dls. ; milk yields up from 550 gallons 10 Uncooked course largest user is the Canadian Na- a year to around 700 gallons PUZZLE J Jsverage BAY ut tion Exhibition held annually in Electric fencing nathods, are ; a Ye a Hi hp, A Toronto. Fireworks are called for increasingly. being used to en- 1 af TROsS 1 felony to 23barkinthe {8Tighten : to colabrite Sonn Pipe Dey able cattle to eat feeding stuffs 6 Moved In water , her ay Bockics: san in Quebec, Guy Fawkes ik where they are grown instead of 9 Danish monéy 3 gpnelt: i paki slave 49 Poultry enthusiastically recalled in the | hauling the food to the cows. In 12 Norwegian 4 Most recent 27 ir mining bo oduct Maritimes, and even. Hallowe'en this and in countless other ways +g Tas § froshet 28 Small case 52 Native metal which British Columbians hail time is being saved on farms and ¢ 3 Of father or 5 (fort melody 29 Birds' homes 65 Exist i with firecrackers. : productivity raised. 5 2 16 Unbridled out- The spectacular effects achiev- * N * break ed by pyrotechnics comes from Some farm economists calcu- : i Arumate herb the use of a variety of chemicals. late that at the present rate % 18 Thoroughfare 10 Roof edge $2 Frozen raln 7 For instance, the dazzling white light comes from aluminum and Britain could soon become 90 per cent self-sufficient in food instead of two-thirds self-suffi- RY Js er Ent a FNS ie SA ' i Otherwise antimony, the red from salts of | 4 ) Te tryin strontium, -the blue from oxy- clent as of today. But this would Sgn Dutchman chloride of copper or copper am- have a revolutionary effect on 2 10, perishes from monium Sulphate. The power in the traditional Bnitish economic it & ; princi the dockets and "bang i the paiiern, Md he D ; ; eR bg Hk recrackers comes from the use ow wo 1¢ Danes pay for Ad oe 1 Len seontr) on black powder. British bicycles it they didn't 3 ; 38 Conlin worth _ Roman candles, lawn lights, sell their butter, eggs, and bacon . 41 Province In pinwheels, all contribute to the | to Britain? pr 43 Narrow bontd fantasy of light against a back- Australia and New Zealand ARH 45 Builds drop of darkness. Fireworks spe- have long been among the to i bi: 3 ERE 4 Electrical eh clalists who set up the big out oiling Briain nds - Ll ii - : . - AR : HPA So Daye ake Noh Dies the British have Doms the Tone CAST OF CHARACTERS --So you think Junior's pup, always underfoot, Is a nuisance? How'd a) : HO 1s who breathe "oohs" and "ahs" | Customers for Australian and ou like to live in Lorraine D'Essen's apartment? The picture above gives you an idea of what Ba 68 Waive nub of appreciation afirm that old- | NeW Zealand butter, cheese, Vs like at breakfast time most mornings, Lorraine's sitting on a llama, holding a wombat. SNE 87 stanth fashioned fireworks still hold meat, wool, and other farm Behind the llama is a lamb. Among her other pets are dogs (including a Great Dane), sheep, RED A med their own wih any modern products. , , , ducks and kangaroos. Lorraine is an,animal talent scout. When a show producer needs ao : ; ; ah Answer elsewhere on this page. 'spectacle, The 19th century way to meet certain animal, he calls her and she can usually produce the one needed Hy 3 2 No