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of the immenfe quantity of honey that might 
be produced, even in ordinary favourable years. 
Hives. Pints of Honey. 
Suppofing, (which is moderate) I to produce 4. 
Then 1 hive in each parifh - 800 produces 3,200 
Suppofing the number in each 
parifh increafed to 30, - 24,000 will produce 95,000 
But fuppofing, (which is fill 
very moderate) the number 
in each parifh increafed to 
USP at = - 80,0co will produce 320,000 
Suppofing the number in each 
parifh increafed to 400 = 320,000 will produce 1,280,000 
lbs. of was. 
Befides wax, which at 1lb. each hive, is - - 8c,000 
But there are many parifhes in Scotland fo 
very large and extenfive, and fo full of rich 
flowers, that I believe 1000 hives ereted in 
each of them, would not contain bees fuffi- 
cient to extract the one half of the honey con- 
tained in their flowers, in favourable weather ; 
and therefore, it would not be eflimating the 
poffible increafe of honey, all over Scotland, too 
high, to ftate it at near 2,000,000 of pints of ho- ; 
ney. For example, the parifhin which I refide, 
was fo richly provided laft year with abun- 
’ dance of fine white clover, wild muftard, and 
heath flowers, &c. that 1500 hives of bees, 
-_placed properly on it, would not have nearly 
: : exhaufted 
