Produced by Tom Cosmas Transcriber Note Text emphasis denoted by _Italics_. Whole and fractional parts of numbers as 123-4/5. [Illustration: Principio sedes Apibus statioque petenda, ---- Virgil.] HUMANITY TO HONEY-BEES: OR, _PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS_ FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HONEY-BEES UPON AN IMPROVED AND HUMANE PLAN, BY WHICH THE LIVES OF BEES MAY BE PRESERVED, AND ABUNDANCE OF HONEY OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY MAY BE OBTAINED, BY THOMAS NUTT. ---- Vos non vobis mellificatis Apes: Sic --------------------------------- Virgil. SECOND EDITION. WISBECH: PRINTED BY H. AND J. LEACH, FOR THE AUTHOR, OF WHOM IT MAY BE HAD AT MOULTON-CHAPEL, OR AT 131, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. SOLD ALSO BY LONGMAN AND CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. _Price Ten Shillings,_ 1834. ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL. Also may be had on application to my agent, Mr. G. Neighbour, 131, High Holborn, near Southampton Street, London, honey taken on the principles here specified, with hives stocked with bees, or unstocked. All letters must be post paid to the author. DEDICATION, BY PERMISSION, TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, QUEEN ADELAIDE MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, To pen a dedication skilfully is generally the most difficult part of an Author's task; but a dedication to ROYALTY is so delicate a matter, that I almost tremble for the success of my undertaking--tremble lest I should fail to express myself dutifully, gratefully, properly; though I am not without hope that your Majesty's goodness will graciously extend to the Author that degree of indulgence of which he is sensible he stands so much in need, especially as nothing unbecoming a dutiful subject to write, or improper for a gracious Sovereign to read, is intended to be here expressed.