Bees, Pigeons, Rabbits, and the Canary Bird, Familiarly Described: Their Habits, Propensities, and Dispositions Explained; Mode of Treatment in Health and Disease Plainly Laid Down; and the Whole Adapted as a Text-book for the Young StudentWiley and Putnam, 1842 - 164 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 135 - All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair — The bees are stirring — birds are on the wing — And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
الصفحة 99 - PATURITION, or kindling, hay is to be given to the doe, to assist in making her bed, with the flue, which nature has instructed her to tear from her body for that purpose. She will be at this period seen sitting upon her haunches, and tearing off the flue, and the hay being presented to her, she will, with her teeth, reduce and shorten it to her purpose. — Biting down of the litter or bed, is the first sign of approaching pregnancy.
الصفحة 69 - To return to the ROOM, or LOFT ; the shelves should be placed sufficiently high, for security against vermin, a small ladder being a necessary appendage. The usual breadth of the shelves is about twenty inches, with the allowance of eighteen between shelf and shelf, which will be sufficient not to incommode the tallest pigeons. Partitions between the shelves may be fixed at the distance of about three feet, making a blind, by a board nailed against the front of...
الصفحة 38 - ... year 1765 a society was formed at Little Bautzen in Upper Lusatia, whose sole object was the study of bees. It was formed under the patronage of the Elector of Saxony. The celebrated Schirach was one of its original members ; and soon after its establishment he made his famous discovery of the power which the bees have to supply the loss of their queen, by forming a large cell out of three common ones, and feeding the grub of a worker upon royal jelly ; a discovery so startling to naturalists...
الصفحة 61 - It is not supposed that there could be much profit attached to them ; but they are of this use. they are very pretty creatures ; very interesting in their manners ; they are an object to delight children, and to give them the early habit of fondness for animals and of setting a value on them, which, as I have often had to observe before, is a very great thing.
الصفحة 61 - ... considerate towards animals; and nothing is so likely to give him that excellent habit as his seeing, from his very birth, animals taken great care of, and treated with great kindness, by his parents, and now-and-then having a little thing to call his own.
الصفحة 110 - Let it suffice, that in Germany and the Tyrol, from whence the rest of Europe is principally supplied, the apparatus for breeding canaries is both large and expensive. A large building is erected for them, with a square space at each end, and holes communicating with these spaces. In these outlets are planted such trees as the birds prefer. The bottom is strewed with sand, on which is cast rapeseed, chickweed, and such other food as they like. Throughout the inner compartment, which is kept dark,...
الصفحة 38 - ... he made his famous discovery of the power which the bees have to supply the loss of their queen by forming a large cell out of three common ones, and feeding the grub of a worker upon royal jelly; a discovery so startling to naturalists, that Bonnet, in 1769, earnestly urged the Society not to lower its credit by countenancing such a wild error, which he regarded as repugnant to all we know of the habits of insects ; admitting, however, that he should not be so incredulous of any observations...
الصفحة 72 - To match or pair a cock and hen, it is necessary to shut them together, or near and within reach of each other ; and the connexion is generally formed in a day or two. Various rules have been laid down, by which to distinguish the cock from the hen pigeon ; but the masculine forwardness and action of the cock, is for the most part distinguishable.
الصفحة 65 - Young pigeons are termed squeakers, and begin to breed at about the age of six months, when properly managed: their courtship and the well known tone of voice in the cock, just then acquired and commencing, are indications of their approaching union. Nestlings whilst fed by the cock and hen, are termed squabs, and are at that age sold and used for the table.