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CHAP. XVIII. 



OF PASTURAGE, OR BEE-FLOWERS. 



A PLENTIFUL affortment of bee-flowers 

 is a confide ration that requires attention, if 

 we defign to favour an ample production of 

 honey. The nearer the pafturage is to the 

 apiary, the more journies the bees can make 

 in a day, and confequently the fooner they 

 will be able to fill their hives. 



The product from a large fupply, but 

 at difmall diflance^ and in a temperate Jituation y 

 even with the common management, will be 

 fuperior to that of the mofl fkilful in a bad 

 one. On the contrary, with bad manage- 

 ment, and with fcanty pafturage, and indif- 

 ferent fituation, a very trifling profit can be 

 expected. 



Britain in general is but thinly flocked 

 with bees. Few farmers in companion 

 dleem them worth their notice ; it is from 



the 



