. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ^fjt^k^dt. llTISH Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbanqeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 342. Vol. XVII.] JANUARY 10, 1889. [Published Weekly.] THE ETHICS OF BEE-KEEPING. Many of us are apt to measure the benefits accruing from any particular pursuit by the weight of actual monetary profit only, always reckoning the pros and cons, and cramping up the profits and losses within the limits of £ s. d. AVe rarely think of the many collateral advantages we are deriving and enjoying perhaps at the v
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ^fjt^k^dt. llTISH Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbanqeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 342. Vol. XVII.] JANUARY 10, 1889. [Published Weekly.] THE ETHICS OF BEE-KEEPING. Many of us are apt to measure the benefits accruing from any particular pursuit by the weight of actual monetary profit only, always reckoning the pros and cons, and cramping up the profits and losses within the limits of £ s. d. AVe rarely think of the many collateral advantages we are deriving and enjoying perhaps at the very moment when the cash balance-sheet shows a disa- greeably adverse margin. Were one able to recognise in apparent disaster the indirect and imperceptible influences on the miud for good, how much better one could bear misfortune ! iSo that if we search through our pursuit for crumb3 of philosophic comfort—and this can appro- priately be done at the end of such a year as 1888—we shall surely find the mind refreshed and strengthened by our discoveries. Some of the happiest thoughts have entered our mind as we have watched our bees coming home at the closing in of a hot summer's day; at such a time a sweet calm steals over us as we are filled with love and admiration of the works of the Creator; the surroundings, the rising mists from the valley, the streaky bands of purple aud golden cloud in the western sky, the occasional flutter of leaves stirred by the breeze which always springs up at sunset, lend themselves to the spirit awakened by a contemplation of Nature. Time flies, and we return to our books, tilled with thankfulness for the blessings bestowed by a bountiful Providence. Who has not felt better in health and spirits from an hour's ' observation' in the early morning, when the sun and the bees are racing which shall drink up the best share of the moisture dripping on the alighting-board, or hanging like gems on the margins of roof and porch ? What bee-keeper is
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