ime Reafons for increafing the number 
GHAP. Vv. 
REASONS FOR, AND PRACTICABILITY OF, INCREASING THE 
NUMBER OF BEE-HIVES IN SCOTLAND. 
A ny perfon, who confiders how very abun- 
dantly Scotland is fupplied by nature, with 
food proper for bees, throughout almoft every 
county in the kingdom, and obferves how ve- 
ty few bees are reared, notwithftanding thefe 
great advantages, muft be furprifed that fo 
little exertion has hitherto been, made in that 
line. For inftance, were we to confider, that 
fome parifhes, which might abundantly main- 
tain 300 hives in each of them, have not at 
prefent 20 or 30, we muft be furprized at that 
infatuation which has hitherto prevented us 
from attending more to our own intereft. 
Were we to confider our large extended heath- 
covered moors, and beautiful clover fields, with 
the great quantities of runches, wild muitard, 
&c. that grow fpontaneoufly in our corn fields, 
together 
