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Sect .XIV. 4. i. 



OF PLANTS. 



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the bee -bench, and 



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5llv on the edge of this board, the mouth of the hive wasalf( 



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his means the affailing bees were obliged to alight on the bee-bench, 

 nd then to climb perpendicularly up the edge of the board, on which 



he hive vvas now placed ; a 

 idvanta2:e ; and a much lefs 



d thus appeared 



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ber of bees appeared to be fla 



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day's battl 



whence it would be advantageous always to pi 



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Neverthelefs, as the war did not ceafe, I direded early on the next 



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morniiig to remove the bee-hive to a diflant part of the garden, and 

 to a more eafterly afpecSl, and found to my great fatisfa6lion, that the 

 hofts of the enemy did not follow ; and that in a few hours the un- 

 affalled bees refumed their work, as appeared by their going into the 

 hive with loaded thighs ; and though a few of them were {e'en, on 

 the following two nights refting on their old habitation, thefe were 

 carried early on the enfuing morning in their <-orpid ftate to their 

 new fituation, and the war ended without extermination of either fo* 



eiety 



IV. 



DESTRUCTION BY VERMIN. 



I. The deftrudion of grain, after it is fown, by the field-mice, 

 which mine their way very quickly under newly ploughed lands near 

 the furface, is faid by Mr. WagftafF, in the papers of the Bath So- 

 ciety, Vol. VI. to be efFeded in fome feafons to a very great extent. 

 He adds, that the tufTocks of wheat, feen to arife in many fields, are 

 owinCT to the o-ranaries of thefe diminutive animals; which he has 



often found to contain nearly a hatful of corn, which grows into a 

 tuft, if the owner becomes accidentally deflroyed. 



Mr.Wagflaff alfo afferts, that they feed much on the young plants, 



as 



