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Vol 3. THE LIFE CYCL OF A HONEY BEE IS EIGHT WEEKS This is the Time for the Worker Bee as Queens May Live Six or Seven Years H. B. Parks lectured to the mect- ing of the Entomological Seminar last Friday on the subject “The Re- lationship Between the Complete Life Cycle of the Honey Bee and the Blooming Dates of Nectar-Bearing Plants.” He said: “The complete life cycle of the bee includes the time from the laying of the egg by the queen to the death of the individual developing from that egg. This period of time for the worker bee is about eight weeks. Queens may live six or seven years. “The queen is but the egg laying organ of the colony. She starts to lay early in the spring, increases daily in egg production for about eight weeks, maintains this peak of egg laying during the remainder of the honey flow that is then on. Egg laying is then diminished at about the same rate until the middle of the summer when again egg laying is in- creased but it never reaches the height of the spring peak. The les- sening honey flow of autumn causes egg laying to diminish rapidly and by December there are no eggs and but little brood in the colony. “The worker bee exists as egg, a nurse for about sixteen days and a unrse for about sixteen days and works in the field about twenty- nine days. “The impetus that starts egg layv- ing in the spring is the blooming of elms and mistletoe. Experiment has shown that egg laying increases at the rate of from seventy-five to one hundred eggs per day until the peak is reached. With this knowledge, the rate of egg laying and when it starts naturally one can estimate the number of bees and eggs of bees present in a hive at any one time. “Nectar bearing plants bloom with great regularity. As egg laying is governed by honey flow it is very apparent that a knowledge of the blooming date of honey plants is a very valuable asset to the beekeeper. “It will also be seen that in early spring a heavy honey flow might not be collected because of the lack of field workers. Also that honey plant may be considered a fine yielder of nectar and be so because some other plant unknown as a honey plant sup- plied the nectar to build up a strong colony “As egg laying can be controlled to a certain extent artificially, a col- ony can be brought to its full strength either before or after the natural time and thus take advan- tage of certain honey flows. The tulip, poplar, or yellow poplar, was unknown as a honey plant until ad- vantage was taken of this discovery and now a hundred pounds surplus is not uncommon from it. “With a knowledge of the bloom- (Continued on Page 4) Number 131 AND JUDGES FOR BREEDERS SHOW | John C. Burns Selects and Judges Cattle for Panhandle Hereford | | Breeders’ Assn. | | | John C. Burns, Head of the De- | partment of Animal Husbandry has | returned to College after being ab- |sent for several days on a trip to | Amarillo where he attended the Buv- | ers and Sellers Convention in session | there and also the Panhandle Here- (ford Breeders’ Association which [held the show and sale. | Mr. Burns had been invited by the | Association to select the cattle to go | into the sale and to judge the cattle lon exhibition. | He stated that about eighty head of cattle were entered in the auction sale and about one-half the number were exhibited in the individual classes. There was also on exhibi- tion from two hundred to two hun- dred and fifty registered Hereford | bulls and heifers, which were offered {in competition for premiums in pen lots and also for sale at private | treaty. In the auction sale the bulls aver- aged $571 and the females averaged $356, making a general average for both males and females of $479 Mr. Burns said that the Panhandie Hereford Breeders’ Association are producing as good cattle as is being produced in any section of the United States and the cattle offered in this their eighth annual sale were exceptionally good and marked an improvement over those offered in the sales of previous years. He said further that the high merit of the cattle offered and the extensive publicity that the Pan- handle Hereford Breeders’ Associa- tion are gaining for their cattle is at- tracting buyers from all over the United States. A five-year old bull, “Pathfinder”, owned by B. H. Conner of Claude, Texas, topped the sale at $2550, and a seven months old bull calf that was the grand champion bull of the show sold for $1725. He was owned by Jim Sanders of Hereford, Texas. One cow sold for $1250. Ri A EE EN AN TWO GRADUATES OF TEXTILE ENGINEERING ARE PROMOTED J. B. Bagley, professor Textile En- gineering is in receipt of information concerning two A. and M. graduates who have important positions now. Mr. J. R. Corley, two-year student of ’14, has just been promoted from position as foreman of the spinning room of the South Texas Cotton Mill at Brenham to that of night super- intendent of the Ozark Cotton Mills Co. of Ozark, Ala. Mr. I. G. Moore, ’17, is made fore- man of the spinning room of the South Texas Cotton Mills, Brenham. Mr. Moore has just taken up his mill work since his return from over-sea service. * MORE ECONOMI- CAL THAN CORN Lambs Fattened on Ground Milo Make Most Economical Gain in a Ninety Day Test. J. M. Jones, Chief, Division of Ani- mal Industry, Experiment Station has returned from Spur, Texas. The largest crowd ever assembled at Substation No. seven, located west of Spur assembled at the feeding pens, February 27, to learn the re- sults of the lamb feeding test which has just been brought to a successful termination, he said. In the feeding test just closed, six lots of lambs, equally divided with twenty head to the lot, were fattened on different proportions of milo, fet- erita, and corn. The lot fed on a ration of nine parts ground corn made a gain of 35.37 lbs; the lot fed on a ration of nine parts ground threshed milo made a gain of 35.43 lbs. The gain made by lots fed on rations of nine parts of ground threshed feterita, and ground thresh- ed kafir hardly equalled the lot fed | on the ground milo. With the value of $41.77 on ground threshed milo and that of ground corn at $69.09 the difference in the cost of gain of the respective lots can be well understood. The cost of gain per hundred pounds for the lot fed on nine parts ground corn was $17.28 and for the one fed on nine parts ground threshed milo was only $14.32. That the feeding of grain sorghums to fattening lambs is an economical and profitable channel through which to market the surplus supply of these crops has been strinkingly brought out in this test. In tests conducted at other stations also as a result of digestion experi- ments which have been conducted at the Texas Experiment Station, milo chops have been found to have a feeding value of 93 per cent of that of corn. Although the test just closed should not be considered as final, yet it is intensely interesting that in this test conducted under most favorable conditions, the lot of lambs fattened on ground corn was surpassed total pounds of grain as well as in uniformity of finish by lambs fattened on the grain sor- ghums. Since September 1, 1919, accord- ing to A.B. Connor Chief Division of Agronomy, Texas Experiment Sta- tion, twenty different shipments of corn sold wholesale at $63.09 per ton while a similar number of shipments of milo chops sold at $50.66 per ton, or twenty per cent lower than corn. While previous investigations have indicated that milo chops are not as valuable from a standpoint of total untrients as is corn, the test which has just been closed has served to in- dicate that there still remains room for farther research along the line of investigation which has recently been under observation. UNSELFISHNESS IS ONLY WAY TO ABUNDANT LIFE Dr. Colby D. Hall Says the Spiritual Element in Life is as Essential as Physical. PRESIDENT BIZZELL ADDRESSES MEETING SUNDAY EVENING. Let Us Prepare to Meet the Great Moral Principles That Will Save Our Civilization. Dr. Colby D. Hall was the speaker at the morning service Sunday. His theme was a plea for a life of action and a life of religious service, cither part or whole time. He talked of the new era in which we are living and urged cooperation and recon- struction, saying that from a stand- point of religion cooperation has found a conception in the minds of the peo- ple. The road of unselfish service is the only one to the abundant life for the world at large, to the full round rich life, to a brotherhood of unselfishness. And yet he said we must not enter in- to it with the purpose of finding per- sonal happiness, we must not make happiness the motive of personal self- fishness; but must put our lives into an unselfish service. America did a great work of unselfish service by put- ting her men and millions into the work of setting the world free with- out charging for the job. Unselfish- ness gives the power to win and rule over all; men who gave voice to nar- row selfish views will be put down. Three questions are uppermost in the determination of your life. What is the motive of your life? What is the aim of your work? What is your attitude toward the multitude? The world needs more men in the depart- ment of spiritual leadership. The spiritual element in life is as essential as the physical. Spiritual teaching is the only way of reconstruction. EVENING SERVICE. (By M. A. Miller) In outlining the subject, “The Moral Challenge of Our Times” Sunday evening, Dr. W. B. Bizzell stated that today we were facing twe types of challenges, two types of contests, and that only in the spring of 1917 did we meet our first challenge; and that since the war had ceased a new chal- lenge had come in. This challenge— the whole challenge—of this situation is moral, not moral as this term has. been narrowly defined and interpreted most commonly—simply conduct sane- + tioned by a certain type more or less religious—but in the larger sense that every type of action, every conscious decision is a moral act. Therefore we have the challenge of human con- duct in every sphere of action. This challenge of our times is expressed in many ways, and is always between two conflicting extremes. The first of these is denoted by
