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" Samuel Dempster had two also in. spring. His two 

 first swarms weighed respectively 110 lb. and 148 lb. 

 Henshilwood bad one 168 lb., and my brother had one 

 130 lb. 



" P.S. — Scouler had two seconds, one of which weighed 

 80 lb., the other 90 lb.— Yours truly, 



" Egbert Ebid." 



^Ir Eeid's letter containing the results, or some of them, 

 at Carluke for 1869, has already appeared in print, in 

 connection with our own. balance-sheet, which appears 

 annually : — 



" Caeluke, 5th October 1869. 



" My dear old Friend, — I beg to be excused for not 

 replying to your note sooner, but I waited till I got my 

 bees home from the moors and the honey taken from 

 them. I jarred it all up yesterday, and find that out of 

 the 10 hives we have taken upwards of 400 lb. of honey. 

 The heaviest hive was 120|^ lb., two or three of them 

 about 90 lb., the rest from 60 lb. to 70 lb. each. We 

 had three boxes of honeycomb, which realised 27s. And 

 one second swarm, 80 lb. weight, was sold for £2, 2s. The 

 above is the produce of six stock-hives, so you see the bees 

 have done weU with us this season. — Yours truly, 



"E. E." 



The heaviest hive in the parish for 1869 was 128 lb. 

 And an old widowed aunt of the author's got 250 lb. of 

 honey from four stocks. 



These facts and figures are quoted with the view of stim- 

 ulating the attention of bee-keepers generally. We are 

 of opinion that agricultural and horticultural exhibitions 

 do more to advance the sciences of farming and gardening 



