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was standing- near by an entrance to a second storey, and nothing of the kind 

 was there. Even supposing it possible that a bee might mistake this upper 

 entrance for its own lower entrance, would it be likely that, within an hour, 

 there would be a number of bees from elsewhere carrying pollen into a place 

 where not a bee had before been flying? Aloreover, the appearance of the bees 

 was not that of old bees, but of bees only a few days old. 



Cattle, 



DEHORNING CALVES. 



Working cattle and milch cows should be dehorned when quite youug, for 

 the horns are of no use and merely a possible source of trouble. On this subject a. 

 writer in a recent number of "Hoard's Dairyman" gives the following advice. He 



says :— 



" The best way to dehorn is the day the calf is dropped. Let the calf suck its 

 dam all it wants, and then the calf will lie down and sleep soundly, and you can go to 

 it and hunt for the little button on its head where the horn will start. There you 

 can find a little spot that has no hair, and you just rub a little caustic potash on that 

 spot, and the calf will not wake up from the operation. The horn will not start to 

 grow and the calf will never know what happened, and will have as smooth a head 

 as a muley. Get one shilling's worth of caustic potash and put in a bottle with just 

 enough water to dissolve it, and put in a glass stopper, and when you want to use 

 some, take a pine wood stick like a lead pencil and stick it into the fluid and rub on 

 the little button, and the next day if there is a little dent there the horn is dead ; if 

 not put on a little more, but not too much as the fluid runs down. It will take the 

 hair off where it goes. The common box lye will do the work, but don't put on so 

 much that it runs down the head. By all means keep the horns off. The cow has no 

 more need to carry horns nowadays than a. man has need of carrying a revolver in 

 company or society." 



