Excerpt from The Hive and the Honey-Bee: With Plain Directions for Obtaining a Considerable Annual Income From This Branch of Rural Economy, To Which Is Added, an Account of the Diseases of Bees, With Their RemediesTo resume: As boyhood merged into manhood, so did my zoological predilections acquire additional strength, and it fortunately happened that at this period many circumstances combined to afford me facility for their indulgence. Need I add that I eagerly availed myself of these, need I add that I cultivated poultry, and strove to improve our domestic varieties by intermixture with foreign stock, that successively the Horse, Dog, Cow, Hog, and other animals, engaged, as opportunity offered, my close attention, and when it will be recollected that I studied the habits and natures of these animals with an interest of a peculiar nature, is it to be wondered at that I should have done so with success, Or that it should be now a source of so much gratification to me to publish, for the benefit of others, the result of my observations?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.