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and completely over-covered the seeds 

 and the wound thus made in the potato 

 was in due time healed by again being 

 covered o\cr with a ne\v skin. The 

 ])r()ccss outlined al)()\'e is based on the 

 fact that the loiccr half of the cavities 

 made by the seeds are covered by a very 

 pale but normal epidermis while the upper 

 parts of the cavities are not. My 

 thanks are due to Mr. Buell, of the 

 Electrical Department, for the photo- 

 graphs. 



The Wheel of Honey in the Comb. 



Of all the novel forms in which bees 

 ha\-e built their honeycoml), it would 

 seem that that secured by Mr. Edward 



An Essay on Bones. 



l)Ones is tlie framework of the body. 



If I had no bones in me, I would not 

 ha\e so much shape as I have now. If 

 1 had no bones in me, I should not have 

 so much nK)tion, and teacher would be 

 l)leased, but I like to have motion. 



Bones give me motion, because they 

 are something hard for motion to cling 

 to. If I had no bones, my brains, lungs, 

 heart, and larger blood-vessels would 

 be lying around in me, and would get 

 hurted ; but now my bones get hurted, 

 but not much unless it is hard hit. 



If my bones were burned, I should 

 be brittle, because it would take the ani- 

 mal out of me. If I was soaked in acid, 



COMB HONEY DESIGN BY EDWARD WILLBRIGHT. 

 This took first prize in its class at the Minnesota State Fair. 



Willbright was justly entitled to the 

 first prize at the Minnesota State Fair. 

 It is evident that this ingenious bee- 

 keeper arranged comb foundation in 

 the form of a wheel, as a hint to the 

 bees that they accepted. We are indebt- 

 ed to the "American Bee Journal" for 

 the accompanying illustration. Do any 

 of our readers know of anything equal- 

 ly novel in comb formation? Here is a 

 good suggestion to some of our bee- 

 keepers to try this or other designs this 

 comins: season. 



A census of the mollusks in a New 

 York lake shows nearly eight million 

 individuals on an area of bottom three 

 hundred by five hundred feet. 



I should be limber. Teacher showed me 

 a bone that had been soaked ; I could 

 easily bend it. I should rather be soak- 

 ed than burned. 



Some of my bones don't grow close 

 to my others snug, like the branches to 

 the trunk of a tree, and I am glad they 

 don't, for if they did, I could not play 

 leap-frog and other good games I 

 know. 



The reason they don't grow that 

 way is because they have joints. Joints 

 is good things to have in bones. They 

 are two kinds. The ball and socket 

 joint, like my shoulder is the best. 

 Teacher showed me, only it was the 

 thigh of a cow. One end was round 

 and smooth and white. That is the ball 



