38 Reasons for encreasing the number 
exhaufted its flowers of theirhoney. To what 
an aftonifhing. extent then might the bee-huf 
bandry be carried? * + | 
But left I fhould be thought extravagant, in 
my calculations and ftatements of the profits 
to be made from thefe ufeful animals, and in- ° 
clined to lead my readers to build caftles in the 
air, inftead of erecting hives in their gardens, 
I fhall mention a few facts out of many on 
this fubjeét, which I can vouch, either from 
my own concern in them, or upon the autho- 
rity of perfons with whom I am particularly 
acquainted, and who informed me how much 
they had made of their bees laft feafon. 
To a perfon near Greenlaw, I 
paid for honey and wax, a- 
eve, Hes - ~ Lg ore 
‘To another near Dunfe, for 
ditto, above, - - Lt ae 
To another, near Hamilton, I 
paid for one hive, which was 
4 weighed in the Edinburgh 
Weigh-houfe, - - 4° O%98 
Yor 
* But itis neceflary to caution the reader kere, that, in a very 
bad feafon, it perhaps could do little more than produce the 
fourth part of that quantity ; not for want of abundance of flow- 
ers with honey in them, but for want of favourable weather for 
them to goand colle it. See pages 7, 9 and 20. , 
