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by the bye, that it does show a satisfactory balance — will 

 be very usefiil for inducing cottagers and farm-labourers 

 to start bee-keeping. Nothing like ocular demonstra- 

 tion for this class. The "humane" apiarian will reason 

 with them in vain, until he shows them a monster " skep ' ' 

 of honey, and mentions the price that it will fetch in the 

 market When convinced that the depriving system 

 will pay, the cottager will gladly adopt it 



A writer in the Quarterly Review g^ves the following 

 good advice : — " Don't bore the cottager wdth long lec- 

 tures ; don't heap upon him many little books ; but give 

 him a hive of the best construction, . show him the 

 management, and then buy his honey ; luy all he brings, 

 even though you should have to give the surplus to some 

 gardenless widow. But only buy such as comes from 

 an improved hive — and you cannot easily be deceived in 

 this, — one which preserves the bees and betters the 

 honey. Then, when you pay him, you may read to him, 

 if you will, the wise rules of old Butler, exempli 

 gratia, : — 



" ' If thou wilt have the favour of thy bees that they sting thee 

 not, thou must not be unchaste or uncleanly ; thou must not 

 come among them with a stinking breath, caused either though 

 eating of leeks, onions, or garlic, or by any other means, the 

 noisomeness whereof is corrected by a cup of beer ; thou must 

 not be given to surfeiting or drunkenness ; thou must not come 

 puffing or blowing unto them, neither hastily stir among them, 

 nor violently defend thyself when they seem to threaten thee ; 

 but, softly moving by, thy hand before thy face, gently put them 



