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million, producing 4,000,000 pints of ho- 

 ney, and 1,000,000 pounds of wax. 



On the fuppofition that bees will increafe 

 double every year, and therefore that five 

 hives the firft year may increafe to ten the 

 fecond year, &c. I will not difpute : but 

 will there be double the quantity of honey and 

 wax f I doubt, not : for, fuppofing the five 

 hives (the bees of them) can only collect 

 from the vicinage, as far as their flight for 

 pafturage ufually extends, enough to fill 

 their five hives ; the fecond year being 

 increafed to ten, the fame quantity of flowers 

 will only yield the fame quantity of honey, 

 admitting the feafon fimilar to the firft. I 

 infer, therefore, that the produce will be no 

 more, though double the number of bees. 

 To this we may add (which B. acknow* 

 ledges) tha| feafons are often bad; rendering 

 hives impoyerifhed inftead of increafing,and 

 that they often die in the winter. The fecond 

 link of this golden chain being broke, down 

 falls the whole mafs of honey and wax ap- 

 pending thereto, and there I leave it. 



No ! fay its advocates, that is not fair ! 

 We can increafe the flowers in proportion 



to 



