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persons having the least taste for the topics on which it treats. Not 

 having had the long experience that he has had in relation to them, 

 nor the leisure to make them subjects of critical investigation, we feel 

 ourselves incompetent to express an opinion upon some of the results 

 to which his inquiries have led him. Of this, however, we can affirm, 

 that no man seemingly is more able to give a well authenticated theory 

 than Mr. Miner. He has labored long in forming his conclusions ; his 

 success in the bee-culture has rarely been equalled ; and he has even 

 a passion, we should judge, for this department of natural history. 

 We have never tried his hives, represented in the cut, and, of course, 

 cannot speak of them from experience, but we have such confidence 

 in his sufficiency to make improvement in bee-hives, that we should 

 not hesitate to think w r ell of those he has devised, and we can espe- 

 cially recommend, in sincerity, to every person keeping bees, "The 

 American Bee Keeper's Manual," to which we hav* above alluded. 



MINER'S FANCY BEE-HOUSE. 



MILLET. The common name of a plant which grows naturally 

 in India, whence it was first imported into Europe. It is greatly cul- 



