1857. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



203 



THE WORLD IS FULL OF BEAUTY. 



There is beauty in the forest 



Where the trees are green and fair ; 

 There is beauty in the meadow 



Where wild flowers scent the air j 

 There is beauty in the sunlight, 



And the soft, blue beam above ; 

 ! the world is full of beauty 



When the heart is full of love I 



There is beauty in the fountain, 



Singing gaily at its play. 

 While rainbow hues are glittering 



On its silvery shining spray ; 

 There is beauty in the streamlet, 



Jlurmuring softly through the grove , 

 O '. the world is full of beauty 



When the heart is full of love ! 



There is beauty in the moonlight 



When it falls upon the sea, 

 While the blue, foam-crested billows 



Dance and frolic joyously ; 

 There's beauty in the lightning gleams 



That o'er the dark wav, s rove j 

 O ! the world is full of beauty 



When the heart is full of love ! 



There is beauty in the brightness 



Beaming from a loving eye ; 

 In the warm blush of affection. 



In the tear of sympathy ! 

 In the sweet, low voice whose accents 



The spirit's gladness prove I 

 ! the world is full of beauty 



When the heart is full of love ! 



because they have that hive in which to store it. It 

 will be admitted that a good swarm, located early, 

 having convenient access to honey-yielding flowers, 

 will in ordinary seasons store from sixty to one hun- 

 dred pounds of honey in a barrel, box, house or 

 tree. Thirty pounds of this is probably sufficient 

 for any family of bees through the winter. It is 

 plain, therefore, that if by any contrivance these 

 stores can be divided, leaving the amount necessary 

 for the bees — that the surplus may be taken from 

 them for the use of their owner. 



When bees are put in a very large hive, such a 

 colony will be likely to la^t much longer than if put 

 in a very small one, and will probably send out a 

 less number of swarms, and store a less quantity in 

 the supers. If put in very small hives, they will 

 store a large quantity in the supers, particularly the 

 first season, but will have too little room for the 

 necessary brood combs to keep the colony supplied 

 with recruits, and be very liable to have insufficient 

 stores. Hence it is important to avoid the two ex- 

 tremes. Experience proves that the apartment for 

 brood combs and winter stores should be com- 

 ibined — any division making it necessary for the 

 bees to leave one apartment for another, to obtain 

 stores in winter, is often attended with fatal results. 

 Let the main hive then be of the proper size, which 

 experience will soon indicate ; and all that the bees 

 can do besides filling such a hive, may be stored in 

 the supers as profit, — on this point is centred all in- 

 terest in modern bee culture. Additional hives or 

 boxes to receive the surplus, are usually placed on 

 ihe top, through which several holes are made for 

 communication. The bees will work through the 

 top more readily than at the side. 



If this surplus is to be consumed at home, a wood- 

 en box is all sufficient and somewhat cheaper, while 

 the honey may be obtained in equal purity. But 



the 



For the New England Farmer. 



BEE HIVES. 



To prevent that which I have to say from being 

 considertdall theory, 1 beg leave to say that I have {for market, the honey is so much more tenipti 

 been engaged in bee culture 2S years, and have j ^hen seen through the glass sides and ends of 

 probably extended my operations in the business] boxes, that a greater price is readily paid for the 

 farther than any other person in this country. I ! honey, with the boxes at the same rate. The more 

 have not been altogether an idle observer, or failed | a hive can be simplified and answer these ends, the 

 to notice some portion of the nature and instinct : better, and any hive that will do this, whether pa- 

 belonging to the bee; and claim a large share of i tent or otherwise, may be depended upon for suc- 

 practical experience. The instinct of the bee, can Less, as far as the hive is concerned. I have found 

 be improved but little. Unlike most domestic ani- the common box hive to answer admirably for ob- 

 mals, she is perfectly independent of the fostering taining surplus in every form that fancy may die- 

 care of man ; she can and does leave him for a home tate. Myself and a few neighbors the i)ast season 

 in the woods with the most provoking indifference, have produced in glass boxes over twenty thousand 

 and will there provide herself with all she needs. pounds, without the aid of a single patent! The 



Whenever there is a yield of honey, her nature! simple part of that amount being produced from 

 prompts her to collect it. As long as her storehouse! flowers alone, has excited much curiosity for a full 

 contains room for its deposit, iier toil is assiduous to j description of hives and boxes. Notwithstanding I 

 fill it up ; whether it is the painted palace, the have already described them in some of the agri- 



thatched hovel, the hollow tree, or the cavity in the 

 rock. That she will go forth with greater alacrity, 

 obtain her load of sweets and return in less time, 

 or that she will carry a greater burden, or bring 

 home more loads in a day, merely because she lives 

 in a p.iinted hive instead of a hollow tree requires 

 considerable sophistry to maintain. If patent ven- 

 ders would present the merits of their hives as of- 

 fering superior facilities for operations, instead of 

 fabulous quantities of honey stored, they would be 

 entitled to a greater share of our confidence. Mr. 

 Langstroth's moveable comb hive combines many 

 advantages, which promise a remuneration for ex- 

 penses, aside from the immediate production of 

 honey. But I hope that no one will contend that 

 they will collect more honey in a given time, just 



cultural jjurnals, 1 will, with your permission, Mr. 

 Editor, detail for your readers the method of con- 

 struction &c., hereafter. M. QuiXBY, 



Author of ''Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained." 



St. Johnsville, J\r. Y., March, 1857. 



Remarks. — We are happy to spread the papers 

 of so distinguished a Bee-culturist as Mr, QuiNBY 

 before our readers. 



Flora Temple. — From some source unknown 

 to us, we have received a graphic and most life- 

 like portrait of Flora Temple, who made her mile 

 in 2.24^, in harness, on the Long Island Union 

 course in Sept., 1856. 



