6l STORIFYING. 



fiderably of the produce of the mother flock, 

 often to its ruin— what I have allowed for 

 calls, in the common run, will be the full 

 amount* 



The eflimate is founded on the produc- 

 tions of middling fituations ; but in better, a 

 fingle hive may produce a flock of from 

 thirty to forty-fix pounds weight, grofs ; the 

 higher likewife will be the proportional ad*- 

 vantage in ftorifying. Where hives weigh 

 fo, they are ufually much larger than the 

 general fize : and I think in the Jingle me- 

 thod, no hive fhould be lefs than three 

 pecks, or perhaps a bumei, but not more 

 than twelve inches in height. The twelve 

 flocks will require three millings and fix- 

 pence to be laid oat in new hives, every 

 third year, which I fet againft twelve new 

 hives at lead, which muft be bought for 

 f warms in the (ingle management. No 

 other branch of hujbandry (I am inclined to 

 think) will return jo large an inter eft on fo 

 jmall an expenditure. 



Befides the advantages already mentioned, 



there are others of confequence which de- 



ferve notice. lit. In avoiding the unnecef- 



9 fary 



