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fantry. An incorporated flock will gather more 

 honey than three or four fingle ones, for reafons 

 obvious to intelligent apiators. 



Hives of bees of half a bufhel meafure, intended 

 to (land, ought at leaji to weigh "twenty pounds; 

 larger hives in proportion. Nor ought they to be 

 above two years old. Probably, if the number of 

 flocks in one perfon's pofTcfTion in January or Fe- 

 bruary were to intitle to the premium, a deception 

 might be more difficult. 



To take the honey without deftroying the bees, 

 cannot be done by any of the prefent methods, 

 without trouble, and other inftruments than are yet 

 publickly known or in ufe among the commonalityj 

 confequently the peafantry (from whom we muft 

 look for a general increafe) have neither attempted, 

 nor will attempt a change, where an additional ex- 

 pence is certain, againft an uncertain advantage: a 

 few perfons of higher flation may make a point of 

 pride or intercfl in benefiting by the piva^ium, 

 whilft the generality v;ill flili remain ignorant and 

 incapable. It is with concern I fee numbers of 

 fober, honed, and induftrious cottagers, with fa^ 

 milies, to whom a (lock of bees would be a little 

 eftate, but who out of their fmall pittance of wages 

 (as here 4s. a week) can never fparc enough to 



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