The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-29

| as, according 10 the old proVerD, what is one
mans meat is anothers poison, it sometimes carries
honey to its cell which is prejudcial to DIR Bar
ton in his fifth volume of the American Philosophical
Transactions, speaks of several plants that yield poi
sonous syrup, of which the bees partake without nu
rvs but which has been fatal to He has emu
merated some of these plants, which ought to be de-
stroyed wherever they seen, namely, dwarl-laure
great laurel, kilmia latifoa, broad leaved moorwor
Pennsylvania mountain laurel wild honey suckle (the
bees, as we observed cannot get much of tEs) and the
stramonium jamestown weed which last we
should wish to completely eradicated, ass indie
pendenty of the poison extracted from its flowers, and
from its Seeds which are often eaten by children, it is
the ugest weed that grows, and has the most often
sive odor.
The poets always exalting and magnfying the sub
ecs that they touch, have contributed perhaps
than any other set of writers to misead our Judgment.
They endow the bee with memory, and Rogers thinks
that it finds its way to the hive by this faculty alone.
Nor is it only with regard to the bee, that poets, the
worst entomologsts in the world Lave led astray.
COwper says,
Il would not enter my list of friends,
Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
the man,
Who needessly sets foot upon worm.
BY norm, we wonder if he included the grub-worm.
Alas little did that amiable man think Of the mis-
chief that would ensue from this sensibity and tender
ness towards insects. He thought that when nature
created them, and designed them abode, that il
was species of cruelty to hunt or harm them when
not actually crawling in TIL alcove the chamber, or
reiectory. But the harm that the few do who so in
advertenty approach our dwellings, is insignificant
when compared to the ravages of every kind of insect
excepting the bee when in the abode that nature as
signed it. This very worm, from which they bid us
turn aside when meet it in our path, after destroy
ing the roots of our pasture and corn, becomes
winged insect, end continues its mischief to the de-
struction of our finest fruits.
We really are in sad plight between our sensibi-
ties and our sense of justice to ourselves. We say
that insects have multiplied, that neither
raise grain for cattle, fruit for ourselves
+ Keep birds near YOU say the philosophers 'qu the
the cruel practice of shooting the harmless songsers
of the grove, and you will not only be rewarded by
seeing that insects decrease, but you will be charmed
by their melody. But, then, say in answer, that
the birds do not discriminate that they prefer bees
to every other insect, and therefore the birds
must die And in reality we must make war upon
those birds, that show the greatest fondness for our
little friends. Let us, at least, show our sense of the
value of these by keeping their enemies away at any
rate from their very doors. Let lessen the chance
of their encounterng them abroad, by planting the IA
vorite food of the bees the apiary as possbe
and also lessen the chance of their being drowned.
when driven by high Winds they stoop to drink by
giving them running streams near to their hives.
We have scarcely observedan order in this discus
sion, setting down our thoughts Just as they presented
themselves Had we written regular work on this
subject, we would in the proper place have spoken of
the small bees the aged, and those denominaed black
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