TIE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN APIARY. 
SITUATION, STOCKING AND ARRANGEMENT. 
An enthusiastic admircr of the elegant habits of Bees, 
presistently enquires, Did any one ever sufficiently admire— 
did he, indeed, ever notice—the entire elegance of the 
habits and pursuits of bees? their extraction of nothing but 
the quintessence of the flowers; their preference for those 
that have the fincst and least adulterated odor ; their avoid- 
ance of everything squalid (so unlike flies); their eager 
ejection or exclusion of it from the hive, as the instance of 
carcasses of intruders, which, if they cannot drag away, they 
cover up and entomb ; their love of clean, quict, and delicate 
neighborhoods—thymy places with brooks ; their singularly 
clean arrangement of so liquid and adhesive’ a thing as 
honey, from which they issue forth to their work as if they 
had nothing to do with it; their combination with honey- 
making, of the elegant manufacture of wax, of which they 
make their apartments; their orderly policy; their delight 
in sunshine ; their apparent indifference to anything regard- 
‘ing themselves, apart from the common good ? 
BEE-KEEPING A SCIENCE. 
To succeed in any calling, we must first gain a reasonable 
amount of knowledge of the science upon which are founded 
the rules of that. art. Bee-keeping is a science, having for 
its object the attainment of a correct knowledge of all that 
pertains to the habits and instincts of these wonderful in- 
sects; and a practical art which regards all the attainments 
thus made as the only reliable basis of successful bee-culture. 
Therefore, to make the pursuit both pleasant and profitable 
we must possess the requisite knowledge of the laws that 
govern these industrious creatures. 
