‘MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 139 
any good. A pennyworth of brimstone will 
do the job at once, and is more easily paid 
for than a pound of honey, and after that an- 
other and perhaps another. Such is the 
reasoning, and calculations, and cruel prac- 
tice of the generality of Bee keepers. Such 
is the destruction annually dealt out to hun- 
dreds of-poor swarms, and thousands and 
millions of poor Bees. Ido from my heart 
pity and deplore the untimely fate of these 
suffocated, innocent, valuable insects. 'T'o 
destroy Bees because they are rich is a bar- 
barous practice, and ought by all means to 
pe discountenanced and discontinued; to 
destroy Bees because they.are poor and may 
need support, is cruel, inhuman, and shock- 
ing, however little may be thought of it by 
those who still adhere to this practice. A 
person may as well kill a favorite horse for 
his skin, as destroy a swarm of Bees for 
their honey. This terrible havoc among 
poor stocks and late swarms might be pre- 
vented, if they who happen to have them 
would so far improve themselves in the 
