The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-22

taste for the marvellous Is last disappearing; and
there are now many who set themselves down to the
study with their reason unbiased, and their judgment
free to decide according to the evidence of facts.
Hush, amongst the late writers, has most success
fully combatted the principal errors in ubers theory
but although he has fixed base which rational
theory may be built bis object seems less to elicit
truth, than to expose the errors of Huber. This he
has endeavored to do in the most unamiable and bit
ter spirit, which destroys the qualification with which
his book would be read by the candid inquirer. In
addition to this he has laid himself open to the charge
of plagiarism. lie must have studied the subject su-
iclentIy to acquire knowledge of the different forms
of hives, that have been in from the earliest anti
guilty TO his time and the peculiar shape of the
Greek hive could not have escaped his vigilance, for
drawings and descriptions of it within the reach of
every student yet he boldly states, that flower pot
first gave him the hint of the plan which he adopted
for his own hive.
The little work, the title of which we have prefixed
to this article. called 'The Farmers Manual, con
tains, in a small compass, much of the minuR Of
the management of bees as is necessary to tie
mon cultivator. MIR Butler is a sensible practical
writer, as well other branches of rural economy,
as on bees, and we could recommend his book to all
who are engaged in those pursuits for, with
slight deyiations from his rules. such different eli
mate would indicate, his experience may be beneficial
to all.
we esteem IL Il very ueSlruDe ODJeCl 10 make ule
care of the bee more common than it has hitherto
been, in this part of the country. With the excep-
ton of a small under the superintendent of the
society Of the Shakers, established at New Lebanon,
we neither saw nor could we hear of more than sin
gle apary, on a Journey last summer to Lebanon
Springs, although we made many inquiries. Never
there country suited to the cultivation Of
bees. Even in August thereis abundance of white
clover, and small springs and shallow rivuets appear
at every turn. There is doubt that bees for
merly frequently kept in America than at pres
ent. In many places in New Jersey, where there is
now scarcely bee to be SEEM there existed mil
lions of these insects, to the great profit Of their
ners. 1t was common for one dealer in country
town, to sell from fifteen to twenty barrels of strain
ed honey alone, to say nothing of wax and comb ho-
ney, as well as kind of wine, made of the wasbings
Of combs, called methegln. These articles of COM
merce have almost disappeared and we find that it is
mainly attributable TO the ravages of the mlllers, or
night-nois which have of late years spread desruc~
ton through the hives.
The attention of nuttralists has been directed to
the history of this fatal enemy of the bee, and many
attempts have been made to construct hives that would
prevent the miller from depostng its eggs in them
but the plans were defective, because there no
contriyance for inspecting the hives. Before close
this article, we will cndeavor to give description Of
= hive that is SO constructed TO enable any one to
see the interior and to free it from all cXtraneous mat
Ter, as well as to protect it from the nroads Of the