RELATING TO ANIMALS.
Beea eat 20 pounds of honey to making one pound of wax. The common wasp will destroy 80 to 120 files a day. There are about 7,000,000 cate in th. United Kingdom. The flounder lays 7,000,000 eggs a year, the turbot 12,000,000.
It is estimated that one crow will destroy 700,000 insects every year.
The temperature of a live oyster is 82 degrees; that of a man, 99 degrees. A camel can carry 100 pounds weigh ’4O miles a day, and work from the a.;:-
of five to thirty years. An ox cannot carry more than 200 pounds on his back, nor travel over 24 miles a day.
j It is said that there were at least ' 200,000 mustangs scattered over the plains of Arizona, New Mexico and i Texas ten years ago and that now nearly all of them are gone. A few were caught and kept by the Indians : in their reservations, but the wild ; horse, in his natural state, is practicali ly extinct.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3555, 3 August 1905, Page 4
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169RELATING TO ANIMALS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3555, 3 August 1905, Page 4
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