30 Reafons why there are fo few 
flowers, as that they fhall be enabled to make 
the mof of it, and to collet honey (as his hay. 
- makers make hay,) while the fun fhines. Here 
it may be obierved, that bees will thrive well, 
and collect a good quantity of honey ina fhort 
time, if they only have three favourable days 
in the week, during the honey feafon; as a 
good hive, in thirty fine days, will collect four 
pints of honey: befides, many people will al- 
ledge, that their fituation is too cold, windy, 
or rainy, with many other reafons, which in 
fa& are of no weight; for the principal reafon 
of bees not thriving 1 is bad weather; and the 
next chief caufe is the negleCting to take pro- 
per care of them. Their bees indeed will fome- 
times thrive long and well, with very little care, 
which leads their proprietor to entertain an er- 
roneous idea, that they always will do fo, and 
that hardly any care is neceflary. But when 
cold, famine, or robbing bees attack his hives, 
and deftroy his ftock of bees, the lazy preprie- 
tor regrets his miftake when it is too late. 
I believe poor people, in general, male more 
Pe their bees annually, than thof in more aft 
uent circumitances ; and even the latter might 
! re of id than they do, if they 
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