College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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Page 165
... workers . In fact these indefatigable spinsters enjoy , as they deserve to do , a perpetual spring- cleaning , so dear to the female heart . One other substance besides honey and pollen is brought by the workers into the hive , and that ...
... workers . In fact these indefatigable spinsters enjoy , as they deserve to do , a perpetual spring- cleaning , so dear to the female heart . One other substance besides honey and pollen is brought by the workers into the hive , and that ...
Page 168
... workers re- quire two days to become really active and capable of full power , but half a day suffices for the young queen . Neither workers nor drones quit the hive till the sixth day after emergence , but the time of the workers is ...
... workers re- quire two days to become really active and capable of full power , but half a day suffices for the young queen . Neither workers nor drones quit the hive till the sixth day after emergence , but the time of the workers is ...
Page 333
... workers plus the old workers displaced " ; and the remarkable thing is that this statement , though made by so careful an economist as Professor Mitchell , is shown by his own table to be so misleading as to be entirely unjustified ...
... workers plus the old workers displaced " ; and the remarkable thing is that this statement , though made by so careful an economist as Professor Mitchell , is shown by his own table to be so misleading as to be entirely unjustified ...
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