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goose wends its way northward to Hud- 

 son's Bay at the approach of spring, 

 there to lay its eggs, hatch and rear its 

 brood, and bring them South in the 

 autumn. Or why all birds build nests, 

 lay eggs, hatch and rear their brood 



roundings, and yet how much has he 

 changed their nature ? He has domes- 

 ticated the honey-bee. He has made it 

 to work pretty mu-ch to his liking, and 

 yet how much has he changed its na- 

 ture? 



Exhibit of Bee-Keepers' Supplies Shotvn at the World's Fair by Mr. A. I. Root. 



each spring. To use a modern phrase, 

 I would say, "Because they are built 

 that way." 



The cattle-man has bred his cattle for 

 milk, for beef, for butter ; he has bred 

 off almost all their horns ; he has placed 

 them under different conditions and sur- 



The poultry fancier has bred non- 

 setting strains of fowls (that will not set 

 unless they want to) ; but he has not yet 

 bred a strain that would lay eggs that 

 will all hatch out pullets, as the bee- 

 keeper would expect his non-swarming 

 queen to lay all worker and no drone 



