INTRODUCTION. 1x 
With modern improvements, bee-keeping is made 
a safe, sure, humane and pleasant business. After 
the hives are made—artificially swarming hives of 
course—the ladies can swarm the bees and do all 
else that needs to be done in the apiary. With the 
modesty of real worth, and generous often to a fault, 
these wonderful little creatures commend themselves 
alike to the naturalist, the amateur, the moralist, and 
the “ solid” man. oa 
vour the honey. [Beebread and wax ?] No wonder, then, that 
the bees fear moths——timent Danaos et dona ferentes, [‘ They 
fear the Greeks even bearing gifts”] a scholarly quotation which 
we have not often so good an opportunity of introducing.— 
Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal. 
