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and educate the Hottentot of Africa, than to attempt to 

 unlearn the unread bee-keepers of our country, of all 

 their whims and traditionary notions, respecting the 

 honey-bee. Their knowledge of this insect is rated by 

 the length of time that bees have been kept in the family ; 

 and that man who dates a family possession through 

 several generations, would be a dangerous person to ex- 

 postulate with on the impropriety of his management, 

 for, it were ten chances to one, that we should receive 

 a forcible illustration of the strength of his arguments, 

 in the way of ejectment from his premises. 



HUISH ENCOUNTERS A SAVAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Huish relates an instance of his being introduced 

 to a genus of this species, who had kept bees a long 

 time, and who supposed that he was the veritable 

 " Prince of apiarians ;" and on some improvement being 

 suggested by him, followed and backed by argument, he 

 was politely shown the way to the street, in so signifi- 

 cant a manner, that it would have been rashness to have 

 delayed the parley. 



Nothing will excite the ire of these gentry so much 

 as to question their knowledge of the true science of 

 bee-management. In consequence of this fact, I have 

 ever avoided any controversy with people of this de- 

 scription ; and on a recent tour through the State of 

 New York, I made it a point to call on every bee-keeper 

 in my route, that I could visit conveniently, merely to 

 gratify a curiosity that I felt, to see how they generally 

 managed bees. I elicited their management by simple 



