REPORTS 



REPORT ON" BEES AND HONEY. 



Is it best to keep Bees ? " To be (Bee), or not to be 

 (Bee), tbat is the question." I answer yes, it is both 

 profitable and instructive, to raise bees and honey, if 

 properly managed. An ordinary share of good common 

 sense, with a little experience, are the only outfits needed, 

 for commencing the experiment. I said it was profitable, 

 and instructive, this matter of bee-keeping. The market 

 sales of honey and bees-wax, and the delicious luxury 

 afforded for the table are evidences of profit, while the 

 lessons that may be learned, and the pleasures experienced 

 by watching and studying the habits of these industrious 

 workers, affords a true source of profitable and recreative 

 instruction. Besides, a row of bee-hives, and a tidy, 

 neatly constructed apiary, are ornaments to the household 

 premises. In fact, a farm-yard is hardly perfect without 

 them. I am not about to write a treatise upon bees, and 

 bee-keeping. There are quite enough of these already. I 

 shall aim at being practical in what I have to say, and con- 

 fine myself to a few simple, pertinent suggestions, that I 

 think may meet the wants of those who wish to keep 

 bees with economy and profit, without incurring much 

 expense for either imported bees or patent hives. 



THE BEE-HIVE. 



Do not enter largely into the trial and experiment with 

 ;>atent hives. It will not pay. Sporting gentlemen, and 



