CONCLUSION. 5a 
them, would yield us no sweets. No other creature which is subject to 
the control of man, can be employed in their place. Honey is a thing 
which must be unknown as an article of luxury and commerce, but for 
them. It is an article, which, if it'1s not gathered at the proper season, 
is lost. It does not even mingle with the soil-to enrich it, inasmuch as 
dried blossoms do not contain it. Itislost by evaporation. Hence, upon 
economical principles, we have a motive for putting them into the field. 
Bees live in the most perfect domestic harmony, among themselves. 
So far as we know, no civil feuds ever arise among them. I speak of 
separate colonies, when not annoyed by their neighbors. Although 
furnished with a formidable weapon of defence, they never employ it 
upon the inmates of their own habitation. Were they induced to do 
it, a civil war must be one of extermination. All their difficulties, if 
they have any, are settled upon pacific, instead of warlike principles. 
