Vill. PREFACE. 
I have obferved, that in the very worft fea~ 
fons, and notwithftanding ‘the {mall number 
of hives; that there are in Scotland, a tolera- 
ble quantity of honey 1s always produced : 
_ And therefore, had there been 20 times more 
hives in the kingdom, and a few flowers arti- 
ficially raifed, with proper attention, there 
would have been, even in thefe very bad fea 
fons, juft 20 times as much honey and wax 
colleéted as there was: and in good feafons, 
fauch as laft year, (1794) when there wasa 
ereat deal of honey produced, even from our 
{mall ftock of hives, what an immenfe quan— 
tity would have been collected, had there been | 
forty or fifty times more ftock hives in {pring ! 
Imprefied with thefe ideas, and anxious to 
do all in his power to promote an objec fo be- 
neficial to the country at large, as well as to 
individuals, the author firft ventured to lay 
his fentiments before the public in 1789, by 
publithing a Treatife on the Management of 
Bees, which, he was happy to find, attracted 
the notice, and procured him the patronage, of _ 
many re{pectable and public-fpirited gentle- 
men. Encouraged by thefe flattering marks 
of approbation, he had thoughts of publith- 
ing a fecond edition; but as, in the conti- 
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