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Now, this trifling quantity of sugar, and a few 

 new hives (which you yourselves can easily make,) 

 being the only expense attendant on keeping bees, 

 I am at a loss to know why so few of you, compa- 

 ratively, possess such a source of profit. If it be 

 desiral)le to occupy " a land jlowing with milk and 

 honey" I see no reason why every humble possessor 

 of aji acre of land in Ireland, might not avail himself 

 of the labours of the busy bee, which so far from 

 interfering with his own employment, would work in 

 union with him, and at the end of the year add a 

 considerable item to his profit. An acre of land 

 properly arranged (as recommended in a former nimi- 

 ber,) for the support of a milch cow or two, with a 

 few garden and hedge row sweets for his bees, would 

 do wonders for the small occupier, who, under his 

 present defective system, is generally a very poor man 

 indeed. 



No. XXIV. 



Among the friends of farming- art, 



Few rank so high as Sinclair, 

 For knowing head and feeling heart, 



What person can with him pair ? 



He teaches how to make the most 



Of Pat's delicious root, 

 Wliich, simply boiled, or baked, or roast, 



His palate seems to suit. 



Sir John by method, new and nice, 



Makes it outlive the year, 

 Preserving it in flour or slice — 



You'll read his method here. 



Since potatoes constitute the principal part of your 

 support, I shall devote this Number to the abridge- 

 ment of some of Sir John Sinclair's very important 

 hints " on the culture and uses of potatoes. 



