4  Pleafure and Profit of heeping Bees. 
Now, behold 
with a thoufand varying lines ! 
the innumerable tribe, formed into one compact : 
body, fufpended from yonder verdant {hrub, 
eftablifhing themfelves into an independent 
colony, while their careful mafter, with con- 
{cious delight, meditates on his increafing 
{tore ! 
Bees, when properly managed, are alfo very 
profitable, as, in good years, moft hives will | 
throw two fwarms; in moderate years, one, 
Although, in bad years, perhaps, fome will 
{warm none at all, yet, eftimating by moderate — 
years, and allowing each hive, one with another, 
to {warm only once, which valuing at 15s. each, — 
twenty ftock hives owill thereby yield their 
mafter 15]. yearly ;—no {mall fum tobe got with 
fo much pleafure, and fo little toil. They will 
yield that much, although one or two fhould 
die in winter; nor need any think my efti- 
mate too high; if their hives be good, they 
will have that much one year with another, 
For example, in fummer 1787, the advantage 
arifing from bees was fuch, that many proprie- 
tors of them made 30s.and fomeeven 40s. of one 
fingle hive; and in March 1788, 1 fold a hive toa 
neighbour of mine,which in the following fum- 
mer 
