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of Bee-hives in Scotland. 39 
For 40 hives, purchafed from 
different perfons, fome of 
them at above al. Sterling 
each, I paid - ~ qa sat: © 
A friend in Mid-Lothian af- | 
fured me, he had cleared laft 
feafon, by his bees, no lefs 
than - - - EA O50 
All of thefe perfons had but a very few 
ftock hives at Whitfunday, and yet they made, 
at an average, above 3os. by each of their hives, 
But had they increafed their ftock, they might 
eafily have made ten times more than they 
Chnede 28h | 
With regard to the profit arifing from bees, 
one confideration fhould not be overlooked, 
viz, that almoft the whole produce, arifing from 
the fale of both honey and wax, is in a great 
meafure clear profit; as bees, and bee-hives 
are, particularly in Scotland, equally free from 
rents and taxes; and the culture of them does 
not in the leaft injure or impede any other im- 
provement, in any refpect. Nor do they re- 
_ quire a conftant attendance, as moft other ar- 
ticles of improvement do; for a proper perfon 
might eafily overfee, with a little affiftance in 
{warming time, at leaft 500 bee-hives. And 
as 
