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It is fomewhat ftrange that Mr. B. mould 

 have purfued his refearches, without the 

 advantages of bee-glafTes, or bee- boxes, but 

 confined himfelf to flraw hhes of the com- 

 mon form holding two pecfo and a half, 

 and occafionally eeks. 



His principal dependence for rearing a great 

 number of flocks , is by providing a fufficiency 

 of pafturage adequate thereto ; but thp 

 waxen caftle he has raifed for this purpofe 

 feems to have been built on a hill of fand. 



He fuppofes a perfon to begin with five 

 flocks, whiph the fecond year will be in- 

 creafed to ten, and fo continue to increafe in. 

 a duplicate ratio for ten years, which will 

 then amount to 2,500. He fuppofes like- 

 wife, that if each parilh of Scotland hac} 

 twenty hives in May, the amount of the 

 eight hundred parifhes would be 1 6,000. 

 Suppofing each of thefe hives to throw out 

 one fwarm in September, we fhould have 

 32,000. On thefe principles, with proper 

 management and tolerable feafons, in the 

 fpace of feven years the frocks would in- 

 creafe from 32,00.0 to 2,048,000; and after 

 his draw-backs, his loweft eflin^ate is a clear 



million, 



