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by the cultivation of bees, and act at the 

 fame time confonantly with their clerical 

 profeflion, as it is an innocent amufement, 

 both healthy and profitable. 



Farmers and others who keep numerous 

 ftocks of bees cannot be fuppofed to attend 

 fo minutely to every particular as thofe who 

 have not many, and have more leifure ; yet 

 in this, as well as in all the other articles of 

 hufbandry, the greater the care bellowed, 

 the greater the return that ufually follows. 

 Befides, moft of the operations on bees are 

 to be performed in the evening, or early in 

 the morning, and therefore will not interfere 

 with more important bufinefs. 



To avoid repetitions, the manner of per- 

 forming the operations muft be feverally learnt 

 from the fecond party to the particulars of 

 which the Index will direct. 



The firft part contains the principles ; 

 the fecond the manual, or operative part. 



In general, I have ufed the word hive in- 

 difcriminately for hive or box, as applicable 

 to either ; except when it is otherwife ex- 

 prefTed, or is felf-evident. 



The 



