Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902 (1903) (14769975105)

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Title: Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902

Year: 1903 (1900s)

Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario

Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Fruit-culture Fruit-culture

Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.

Contributing Library: Brock University

Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University - University of Toronto Libraries

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otton rags. The fineness and tenacity of vegeta-ble fibre have been ever since the crea-tion ; and paper-makers (not alwayshuman) have existed, in successive gener-ations, through all the ages since thatgreat event. The thing that hath been is that thatshall be, and chat which is done is thatwhich shall be done ; and there is no newthing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may besaid, this is new ? It hath been alreadyof old time which was before us.—Ecc.L. 9-10. The nest of the Black Hornet (Vespamactdata^ Fabricius) Figs. 47 and 48, is a Pig. 47. Wasps nest at an early stage of construction (original), wonderful structure, suggestive of a variety of things,—tents, umbrellas, capes, the papier-mache dwellings of the Japanese, com-pressed woodenware, etc. It is often of great size. The Rev. J. B. Dobbage of Bourg Louis has one that measuresround it, over top and bottom three feet two and three-quarter inches and, when taken roundthe middle, two feet nine and a half inches.

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70 THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 Our fences and out-buildings supply abundance of material for the busy workers thaconstruct such dwellings. In the wilderness they resort to trees rent by tempests, etc., fortheir supplies. The old church at Hull, Province of Quebec, was built of wood. It had never beenpainted. One summer day, about thirty-seven years ago, when on a visit to Hull, I walkedup to see the church. It stood on a rocky knoll and was surrounded by cedars—the Frenchpart of the town now covers the spot. I thought to look in at the windows, but these were high up ; and I did not venture toclimb, for busily employed about the building were hundreds of wasps, of different kinds.They were eroding the surface of the wood with their jaws—procuring the materials for theconstruction of their nests. The material thus procured would be thoroughly masticated and mixed with a naturalfluid or s?*liva, till it was of the right consistency. The wasps, on commencing their work,would deposit the

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