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strong pickets, and the door is furnished with a strong lock, 

 it will prevent the losses which in some localities are so 

 common from human pilferers. Such losses may be guard- 

 ed against, by fastening a wrought iron ring into the top of 

 each hive, well clinched on the inside ; an iron rod may 

 run through these rings, and thus with two padlocks and fix- 

 tures, (one at each end,) a dozen or more hives may be se- 

 cured. I am happy to say that in most localities such pre- 

 cautions are entirely unnecessary. A place in which the 

 stealing of honey and fruit is practiced by any except those 

 who are candidates for State's Prison, is in a fair way of 

 being soon considered as a very undesirable place of resi- 

 dence. If owners of Apiaries, gardens and orchards, 

 could be induced to pursue a more liberal policy, and not 

 be so meanly penurious as they often are, I am persuaded 

 that they would find it conduce very highly to their interests. 

 The honey and fruit expended with a cheerful, hearty liber- 

 ality, would be more than repaid to them in the good will 

 secured, and in the end would cost much less than bars and 

 bolts. Header ! do not imagine that I have the least idea 

 that a thoroughly selfish man, can ever be made to practice 

 this or any other doctrine of benevolence. Demonstrate it 

 again and again, until even to his narrow and contracted 

 view 'it seems almost as clear as light, still he will never 

 find the heart to reduce it to practice. You might almost as 

 well expect to transform an incarnate fiend into an angel of 

 light, by demonstrating that " Wisdom's ways are ways of 

 pleasantness," while " the path of the transgressor is hard," 

 as to attempt to stamp upon a heart encrusted with the ada- 

 mant of selfishness, the noble impress of a liberal spirit. 



Of all the senses, that of smell in the bee, seems to be the 

 most perfect. Huber has demonstrated its exceeding acute- 

 ness, by numerous interesting experiments. If honey is 

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