HUMANITY TO HONEY-BEES:
OR,
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS
FOR
THE MANAGEMENT OF HONEY-BEES
UPON AN IMPROVED AND HUMANE PLAN,
BY WHICH THE
LIVES OF BEES MAY BE PRESERVED, AND ABUNDANCE OF HONEY
OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY MAY BE OBTAINED,
BY THOMAS NUTT.
Sic ————————————————
Virgil.
SECOND EDITION.
WISBECH:
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Price Ten Shillings,
1834.
ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.
Also may be had on application to my agent, Mr. G.Neighbour, 131, High Holborn, near Southampton Street,London, honey taken on the principles here specified, withhives stocked with bees, or unstocked. All letters mustbe post paid to the author.
DEDICATION,
BY PERMISSION,
TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY,
QUEEN ADELAIDE
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
To pen a dedication skilfully isgenerally the most difficult part of an Author'stask; but a dedication to ROYALTY is sodelicate a matter, that I almost tremble forthe success of my undertaking—tremble lest« iv »I should fail to express myself dutifully,gratefully, properly; though I am not withouthope that your Majesty's goodnesswill graciously extend to the Author thatdegree of indulgence of which he is sensiblehe stands so much in need, especially asnothing unbecoming a dutiful subject towrite, or improper for a gracious Sovereignto read, is intended to be here expressed.
As, however, every colony of Bees, whereverdomiciled, whether in a box, or in acottage-hive, in the roof of a house, or in thetrunk of a hollow-tree, is under an admirablegovernment, the presiding head and Sovereignof which is a QUEEN,—as no colony ofBees, deprived of its QUEEN, ever prospers,or long survives such loss,—as this insectgovernment, or government of insects,« v »exhibits to man the most perfect pattern ofdevoted attachment, and of true allegianceon the part of the subject Bees to theirSovereign, and of industry, ingenuity, prosperity,and apparently of general ha