ON BEES. 



THE native instinct of the Bee, offers to the use of mao 

 one of the first and greatest examples in nature. 



1. By her uniform habits of industry in all her labours. 



^ By her unrivalled habits of economy. 



3. By her wisdom and sagacity in constructing her cells, 

 which constitute both her habitation and store-house. 



4. By the peaceful regularity of her little communities. 



5. By her temperate use of the choicest luxuries of nature. 

 She also offers to man a rich reward for all the care and 



attention he may bestow in cultivating her species, and in 

 promoting their improvement. 



-" The Bee observe, 



She too an artist is, and laughs at Man, 



Who calls on rules the rightly hexagon to form : 



A cunning Architect, that at the roof 



Begins her golden work, and builds without foundation. 



How she toils ! and still, from bud to btid, from flower to flower. 



Travels the live long day. Ye idle drones, 



That rather pilfer, than your bread obtain 



By honest means like these, look here and learn 



How good, how fair, how honourable 'tis 



To live by industry. The busy tribes of Bees, 



So emulous, are daily fed with Heav'na peculiar Manna, 



v Fis for them, (unwaried Alchym'sts,) the blooming world 



Nectarious gold distils ; and bounteous heaven, 



Still to the diligent and active good, their very labour, makes 



The certain cause of future wealth." 



Impressed as I am with the truth of these remarks, I 

 shall consider my system of husbandry as imperfect, with- 

 out some general knowledge of the cultivation of Bees to 

 accompany it, and every farm as being incomplete, until 

 the labours of the Bee are added to its regular profits, 

 I can say nothing upon this interesting and valuable sub- 

 ject from my own experience, and shall therefore annex to 

 my work an abridgment of a learned work upon Bees, 

 published in London, in the year 1817, by the celebrated 

 Apiarian, Robert Huish ; Author of the Peruvians, a 

 poem, &c. Fellow of the University of Arts and Sciences 

 of Gottingen ; Honorary Member of the Imperial Apia- 

 rian Society of Vienna, and Corresponding Member of the 

 Agricultural Societies of Bavaria and .Silesia. Second Edi- 

 tion, with additions. 



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