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MODE OF TREATING BEES. 
lived and died without having caught a stray beam upQn its face. 
This led us to investigate others. We looked at all hours, and found 
them ever the same: as the buds unclosed, so the flowers remained, 
looking to every point of the compass. The same disk that nodded 
to the north-pole star, where it opened, retained its unvarying posi¬ 
tion, apparently more attracted by its magnetic influence, than by 
the electrical light of the sun, that was travelling in the south. The 
same fierce face that would be glaring at me, and looking due east in 
the morning, still stared due east when I went to visit it in the after¬ 
noon, and again by the light of the moon at night. 
So fair an opportunity of watching and remarking so great a num¬ 
ber of plants, as we at that time possessed, is seldom afforded ; and 
so well did we profit by our opportunity, that, without fear of contra¬ 
diction, I repeat, that whoever will carefully examine the inclination 
of a number of sunflowers, will find that the heads do not vary from 
from the position in which they first appear—that that position in¬ 
discriminately points in every direction, and that the rigid unyield¬ 
ing fibrous stalks remain “uncontracted by the heat of the sun,” 
and possess no elasticity whatever. 
July 28th. 
RURAL AFFAIRS. 
ARTICLE VIII.—EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS OF MR. NUTT’S MODE 
OF TREATING BEES. 
COMMUNICATED BY MR. W. T. SMART, 
Witharn on the Hill , near Bourne, Lincolnshire. 
Mr. Nutt’s apiary, at Moulton Chapel, now affords a most interest¬ 
ing display of honey, which has been obtained from his hives this 
present season; it will remain about three weeks for exhibition there, 
before its removal to the exhibition of Arts and Manufactures in 
London ; and it is probable that never before was so large a quantity 
concentrated in one spot, the produce of one Apiary. From ten 
hives, he has obtained no less than nine hundred pounds of honey; 
being an average of ninety pounds weight from each hive, the greater 
part of which was removed on Thursday the 21st inst. in the presence 
of Mr. Booth, lecturer on Chemistry, Benson Rathbone, Esq. of 
Beccles, Suffolk ; the Rev. T. Llark, of Gedney-Hill, and several 
other Gentlemen, with scarcely the destruction of a single tree. The 
interest of the display is greatly heightened by a collection of honey 
from other Apiarians, practitioners of Mr. Nutt’s System : and su- 
