ON BEES. 
The native instinct of the Bee, offers to the use of man 
one of the first and greatest examples in nature. 
1. By her uniform habits of industry in all her labours. 
2. By her unrivalled habits of economy. 
3. By her wisdom and sagacity in constructing her cells, 
which constitute both her habitation and store-house. 
4. By the peaceful regularity of lier little communities. 
5. By her temperate use of the choicest luxuries of nature. 
She also offers to man a rich reward for all the care and 
attention he may bestow in cultivating her species, and in 
promoting their improvement. 
“ t he Bee observe, 
She too an artist is, ami lauzhs at Man, 
Wlio calls on riiles the rightly hexagon to form : 
\ cunning .-yrclutect, that at the roof^ _ 
BeMns her golilen work, and builds without foundation. 
Ho'w she toils ! and still, from bud to liud, from flower to flower. 
Travels tlie live long day. V e idle drones. 
That rattier pilfer, tlian your bread obtain 
By honest ii cans like these, look here and learn 
How good, how fair, liow honourable ’tis 
To live by industry, 'f'hc busy trilies of Bees, 
So emulous, are daily fed with tlcav’ns peculiar Manna, 
’Tis for them, (uiiwaried Alrhym’sts,) the blooming woild 
Nectarious gold distils ; and bounteous heaven. 
Still to the diligent and active good, their very labour, makes 
The certain cause of future wealth.” 
Impressed as 1 am with the truth of these remarks, 1 
sh ill consider my system of husbandry as imperf. ct, with- 
out some general knowledge of the cultivation of Bce.s to 
accompany it, and every farm as being incomplete, until 
the labours of the Bee are added to its regular prohts. I 
can say nothing upon this interesting and valuable subject 
from ray own experience, and shall therefore annex to my 
work an abridgment of a learned work upon Bees, pub- 
lished in London, in the year 1817, by llie celebrated Apia- 
rian, Robert Hiiish ; Author of the I’enivuins, a poem, 
&c. : Fellow of the University of Arts and Sciences of 
Gottingen: Honorary Member of the Imperial- Apiarian 
Society of Vienna, and Corresponding Memlicr of the 
Agricultural Societies of Bavaria and Silesia. — Uccond Ldt • 
tion U'ith udditions. 
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