Excerpt from A Treatise on the Nature, Economy, and Practical Management, of Bees; In Which the Various Systems of the British and Foreign Apiarians Are Examined, and the Most Improved Methods Laid Down for Effectually Preserving the Lives of the Bees: Containing Also an Accurate Description, Illustrated by Plates, of the Hives Invented by Lombard, Ducouedic, Huber, Vicat, L'abb Della Rocca, and Other Foreign Apiarians; And of a Newly Invented Hive for the Purpose of Depriving the Bees of Their Honey To the development of those Mysteries, which are so essentially connected with their Natural Economy: amongst these, the Ancients cer tainly claim precedence, who, to a few truths joined a considerable number of fabulous stories. Others have written only on Bees, in regard to the manner of rearing them, and to the plus or minus of Profit to be extracted from them. If in their Works some Traits of the History of these Insects present themselves, they are con founded with romantic Anecdotes, Prodigies, and Wonders, of which no' proof is exhibited, and which never existed, but in the Georgics of Virgil, or in the exuberant imagination of certain Ancients, whose Commentators are merely the echo of an echo. These are the Authors of those numerous little Treatises, the whole merit of which consists often in the re petition of what is generally known, or in the enumerationof certain Experiments or parti cular Observations on the ordinary method of managing Bees. Certain Authors finally and successfully united Practice and Theory, Truth and Speculation; but able and skilful as those Authors shewed themselves, they have left a number of objects indefinitely explained, which repeated Experiments would have confirmed, owing to an inability of dedicating to that par ticular Study all the time and application. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.