Vill INTRODUCTION. 
arts, and assume a commanding place in the sober 
economies of life. Safer than bank, railroad, or gov- 
ernment stocks, and returning annually, with mode- 
rate attention, at least one hundred per cent. net on 
the capital invested, they might well claim a nitch 
in Wall-street. Adapting themselves to every sec- 
tion of our country, they will for only a quiet nook 
in the yard, make us independent of sorghum, or the 
cane, by gathering and storing away in sealed cans 
ready for our use, the wasting sweets of garden, 
field and forest—pure, healthful, and tempered to 
the palate beyond the most exquisite culinary art. 
“Eh! oh !—TI like the honey and admire the bees, 
but @ 
Never mind ; that sting was not made for you, and 
will not be used against you when you learn to treat 
them properly. But if you persist in rudely disre- 
garding their comfort and their rights, returning 
every friendly salute with a blow, disturbing, crushing 
them ad libitum—even murdering whole colonies for 
their stores when you can get them much easier 
without—you deserve to become more civil and 
consult your own interest if not theirs, for the coun- 
try needs a million bees where it has but one. Their 
sting was made for robbers, and for their insidious 
enemy, the moth, and will guard their stores and 
yours if you will give them a fair chance. 
*The moth breaks through at night sometimes, and steals 
after a very singu ar manner-—namely, by giving. She lays her 
eges in the hive, cuckoo fashion, and their voracious larve de- 
