40 THE COTTAGE AND FARM BEE KEEPER. 



the management of our bees on the cottage plan, we should year by 

 year have systematically destroyed our young queens, and preferred 

 with more politeness than self-interest — with more politeness than is 

 generally to be found in us lords of the creation towards our dumb 

 fellow creatures — to give up to the bees the free enjoyment of their 

 more delicate stores, while remaining content ourselves with the more 

 worthless and less wholesome kind. 



