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

harmless, it is unnecessary and everything that tends
TO cucumber the management of bees should be avoid
ed
Straw hives are unsuitable to our climate and af-
ford a harbor for all kinds of insects. 1t is folly to
talk of their cheapness. il intend to keep
bees he must, in the first place. make the hives in the
very best manner; by this mean, of good materi-
ais and of good workmanship hive badly Joined by
an awkward carpenter is worse than hollow tree
One half of the labor of the bees, is directed to the
repairs of their dwellings
II is not asserted that the bees will, of themselves
fall into these hives, that trouble expense is
necessary in the management of an apary. We know
that both and expense required but the lat
ter, ater the first disbursement, is very rifng. Wig
lance and neatness forever in requson, and the
Of bees like all other profitable business, cannot
be pursued to any advantage, unless 1t receive daily
and minute attention. But have we not accomplished
great deal when we have reduced the thing to this
certainty
But although as we have before observed. nothing
is more simple in theory and practice, than the hso
ry and of bees, yet requires constant and
RENTED attention, if aim either at instruction
profit. Can anything be well done and to advantage
without these Varro in his treatise de Re RuSticd,
is the first who spoke of hives. He wrote upwards
OF 1870 years ago and how many different sorts of
hives have been constructed since his time. say moth
tng of the different theories We wish TO see bees in
every garden throughout America, but we have de-
sire to the subject encountered with more than is
necessary to advance the pleasure and profit of the
pursuit TO the naturalist we will leave discussions
OF organization and propagation. They foreign
to our purpose, they only to perpex and de-
ter US from the main points. But it is proper know
the most simple mode of managing a hive and this
includes the pasture, food that necessary for its
sustenance. Hunger destroys many bees as the
miller. We ought to cultivate such shrubs and plants
as the bees like without this they will starve. The
American black willow and the red maple are the
first trees that visited by the bees. They fond
of the crocus which is the earliest of our dubious
roots and these have in abundance, as they
multiply quickly and occupy little space They are
beautiful in themselves, aflordng a rich treat to the
eve; and they flower early, and of such bright
and vivid colors, that we take as much pleasure in
them as the bees do. The sercorary and piggery are
next resorted to by these insects These we presume
are their medicine Shops and the extract absorb
ed from them must be used as a tonic. Bios
SONS of all kinds, excepting those of the red clover
and of the honey-suckle, are excellent food and the
bees especially profit by the increased attention he
slowed at present the cultivation of the peach tree
IN some parts of this country They not only drink
the nectar and abstract the pollen of the flower, but
they appropriate the peach ITSELF We have seen twen-
ty or thirty bees devour peach in half an hour;
that IS, they carried the juices of it to their cells
The hummng-brd alone can reach the bottom of the
nectay of the honey sucke but even here the instinct
OF the bee is seen. The small birds, such as the
wren make an incson the out side, near the bot
tom OF the flower, and extract part of the iuces-
me pee takes advantage of this opening, and avails