Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-08-03

when he had stored away Just double wha
any OF the rest had saved, he called his friends
and neighbors together, took them iuto his
garden and said: "lf You had been more
charitable in your opinions, would have
told you my secret before. This is the only
w'tchcraft have used" and he pointed TO the
inclination of his hives-one degree more to
inc east than was generally adopted. The
COMPUTATION was soon cleared up the sun
came upon his hives an hour or two sooner
by TINS movement, and his bees were up and
stirrlng' and had secured a large share of the
mornings honey before his neghbors' bees
mad reused themselves for the day. Mr.. Cot
ton, VINO gives the outline of the story which
we have ventnred to fill up, quotes the pro-
verb that 'early birds pick up most worms
ana draws the practical moral, in which we
heartily concur, that your bedroom window
should always, if possible, face the east.
IN an arabic country, with little waste land
and good farming, very few stocks can be sun.
ported; and this has led some enthusiastic
bee-masters TO regret the advancement of agri-
culture, and the consequent decrease of wild
howers-or weeds, according 10 the eve that
views them-and the enclosure of wastes and
commons Even very short distance will
make great difference in the amount of honey
collected. We know of an instance where
oee-keepe- at Carshalton, in Surrey, suspect
ing, from the fighting of his bees ana other
Signs, That there was not pasturage enough i'm
Inc immediate neighborhood, convened awav
one OF his lightest and most worthless hives.
ana ma 1t IN the Woodmansterne fIrzes. n dis
lance OF about mile and a half Fortunately il
lay there undiscovered, and on removing il |
home. he found that it had become one Of his |
heaviest hives. We mention this as case |
coming under our own knowledge, because |
late writer, who has shown rather q waspisb |
disposition in his attacks on Mr.. Cotton's svs-
tenn. seems to question not only the ADVANTAGE.
but the practicabilty of the transportation oil
hives altogether. But the fact is, that in the
north OF England and in Scotland, where there
are large tracts of heather-land apart from anv
haoation, nothing is more common than for
The bee-masters of tho towns and villages to
submit their hives during the honey season
10 the care OF the shepherd of the district.
About SIX miles from Edinburgh,'' saws DIR.
bevan, sat the foot of one of the Pentland
nils. stands Logan House. supposed TO be the
residence OF the Sir William Worthy. celebra-
lea by Allan Ramsay, in his sGentle Shepherd,
l ne houseis atpresent occupied by shepherd
"ho' about the beginning Of August, receives a
bout hundred bee-hives from his nephbors
resident beyond the hills, that the bees may
gather honey from the luxuriant blossoms Of
the mountain hea,her.'' Mr.. Cotton saw
man IN Germany who had 200 stocks, which
ne managed 10 keep all rich by changing their
places as soon as the honey season varied.
'imes TO the meadows, some iilnes - a s~,ne.
and sometimes to the hills" He aIs6 tPgest
OF It's being no uncommon sight in Switzer-
land to see man journeying with beehive
a. his back.