48 How to increase the number 
HIVES, 
Jn the 1. year, Sept. 1795, there wouldbe 32,000 
—— 2. 1796, 64,000 
3° 1797; — 128,000 
4: - 1798, 8 256,000. 
5. 1799, 512,000 
Ge 1800, 1,024,000 
7. I8ol, 2,046,000 
Thus, within the fhort period of feven years, — 
) the number of our bee-hives would be increaf- 
~ ed to no lefs than TWO MILLIONS and FORTY 
EIGHT THOUSAND Hives. But allowing the 
forty eight thoufand to be difcounted for dead 
hives, there would ftill remain two millions of 
{tock hives. Although this number may ap- 
pear to be large, yet there is no reafon to fup- 
pofe, that the calculation is neither impoflible 
or improbable, But, even dropping the one 
half of this number, upon the fuppofition of 
lofles by bad feafons, &c. there would {till re- 
main, at the loweft eftimate, a clear MILLION 
of ftock hives; which, next year might pro- 
duce FOUR MILLIONs of pINTs of HONEY, and © 
ONE MILLION of PoUNDs of wax; and ftill 
keeps the flock entire. With fuch a quantity, 
indeed, of thefe ufeful animals, and valuable 
commodities, we might reft contented; as fach 
a quantity, befides every other devine 
would afford employment to hundreds of ol 
and 
