X PREFACE. 



The mod likely means to ejlablifi the BEE! 

 ART, I believe, will not be accomplished 

 without the patronage of Agricultural 

 Societies ; namely, the encouraging a proper 

 perfon or perfons to exhibit in the bee feafon 

 the moft approved method through the chief 

 market towns of the kingdom. The perfon 

 muft be capable of explaining the pro- 

 celfes, and have with him the neceflary in- 

 flruments. 



I would alfo recommend this employment 

 to any ingenious young man, properly qua- 

 lified, and provided with the apparatus, as a 

 practice that moft likely would turn to much 

 advantage ; taking care not to introduce 

 tricks and fancies, as fbthe have done, to the 

 definition of multitudes of bees, in Mead of ex- 

 hibiting any real improvements. 



Or, lifucb perfons, refident in villages, 

 would qualify themfelves, they might, even 

 in their limited ftations, exercife the art to 

 their own benefit and that of the neieh- 

 bourhood, by performing it at a Bated 

 rate. 



Rural Curates might confiderably aug- 

 ment their too frequently niggardly (Upends, 



by 



