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cause we are accountable to God for all our 

 acts. We are not to be justified in taking the 

 lives of animals or insects, which are but lent 

 blessings, unless some benefit to the owner can 

 be derived from their death, which will out- 

 weigh the evils resulting from such a sacrifice. 

 Duty compels me to protest in the strongest 

 terms and feelings, against the inhuman prac- 

 tice of taking the lives of the most industrious 

 and comforting insects to the wants of the hu- 

 man family by fire and brimstone. 



When bees have occupied one tenement 

 for several years, the combs become thick and 

 filthy, by being filled up with old bread and 

 cocoons, made by the young bees when trans- 

 formed from a larva to the perfect fly. 



Bees always wind themselves in their cells, 

 in a silken cocoon, or shroud, to pass their 

 torpid and defenceless (chrysalis) state. — 

 These cocoons are very thin, and are never 

 removed by the bees. They are always clean- 



•mmediately after the escape of the young 

 oees, axid others are raised in the same cells. 

 Thus a number of bees are raised, which 



