Garden
Time
By.M. E. GARDNER
The honeybee has always feeee
? symbol of industry n4 is rfSpoa
sible (or the familiar expression
"busy as a bee."
With many fruit and vegetable
crops the honeybee i a utdiipanribte
aa ? carrier of peiWa to pollinate
flowers. This pollination rewrite in
the fertilization of the ovaries and
the production of fruit. It i? eeyeei
ally important with tuch crops as
apple*, peaches, squash, and cu
cumbers.
A study of these busy bodies has
always intrigued me and recently
I discovered something , new and
interesting about them. Dr. Nor
man E. Gary, a Cornell researcher,
has this to say: "The queen honey
bee rules the hive and keeps the
worker bees attentive with, of all
things, saliva.
"Some strange chemical in the
queen's mouth juices makes her
1 1 attractive to the workers. Because
I of it, they constantly surround her
body and feed her, and life in the
hive is orderly.
"This chemical, as yet unidenti
fied, comes from the queen's man
dibular glands, the large salivary
glands beneath the lower jaw.
When these glands are removed,
the queen's power over her sub
jects is destroyed almost complete
ly. About 8* per cent of her at
tractiveness is lost. As a conse
quence, her attendants wander
away and she may starve to death."
Dr. Gary further states that the
queen's attractiveness is apparent
ly not related to her egg-laying
ability as is commonly believed.
Workers will swarm to virglfc
queens, or even dead ones, so long
as their mandibular glands are tot
tact and the chemical secreted is
detectable.
Dr. Gary continues: "The newly
found chemical is more than just
a lure for grooming and feeding
the queen. It is the key to the
entire hive activity for it brings
the attendant into bodily contact
with the queen, from whom they
gather other chemicals, known as
permones. These substances, pessed
from one bee to another by mouth,
dictate the behavior and psysio
logical responses of every bee In
the community."
Dr. Gary does not indicate that
the business end of the honeybees,
to which I am extremely allergic,
has changed at all.
STATUS OF ENVOYS
President Kennedy has made it
clear that United States ambassa
dors are in full charge of Ameri
can Government activities in the
countries in which they are sta
tioned.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
said that means that all United
1 States Government employees
' working abroad are to take orders
when necessary from ambassadors.
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HAT BACK DEBT USE
Kennedy Administration pend
ing policies came under Refwbli
can fire recently as tha House
Ways and Means Commit'ee was
calle# te consider a request H>r a
*3 000,000,000 temporary inorsse
In U* tW3 .000,009,000 limit M the
natiMtl 4eb?.
Republicans conceded, however,
that some increase is inevitable to
keep the Treasury from fnfcarras
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KOREAN ENVOY >
The United States GoverwaMt
hopes its new Ambassador to iouth
Korea, Samuel D. Berger, trill be i
able to enoMirage is early :ttur? ,
to civilin rule in that couatry.
It wta understood that Amber
fador Berger would cany with
pirn to South Korea no instructions
C sweeping revisions in United
tes policy.
Mr. Berger is a career foreign
?en-ice officer.
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HOYLE B. COFFEY 8ECV1NG
ARMY IN GEEMANY
????nth u. s. Army, lummy?
Pfe. Heyle B. CotUf, It, Mn of
Mr. Md Mn H<*rl? 1. Coff.y, (low
in| Rock. participated with Other
ponouel from Ik* Sevanth p. 8
Army'* 587th fagllKer Company
In April Showed ? sommand post
t-xcrcla* in Germa*? which aided
June ?.
Pfc Coffey U a clerk ia the
987th, which is regularly located
la Hanau. Oveneaa oae year, he
entered the Army in January 1960,
an? e?MWed basic training at
F?*t Jackson. S. C.
The im Blown ? Roek High
School graduate was uaaoelated
with Coffey's Grocery prior to en
taring the Army.
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tista at AtUntk Raaearch Corpora
tion, Akxandria, IT a., deviaed ?
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