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and poor people to watch them in fwarming 
time, and to make hives to receive the young 
colonies. 
Another method, by which the number of 
_ our ftock hives may be more fpeedily increaf- 
ed in this country, might eafily be adopted. 
Should any one opulent proprietor, or a com- 
pany of individuals, incline to have 2000 or 
3000 bee-hives, let a commiffion be fent by a 
proper perfon to Poland or Ruffia, where, in the 
month of Auguft efpecially, they could be pur- 
chafed at one third part of the price they gene- 
rally draw here: And I am perfuaded, if the 
Dantzick hives are made much in the fame 
form with ours, or in any other form that 
will admit of carriage, a fhip nearly loaded 
with other goods, which would help to pay 
her freight, might bring over a great number 
of them. Perhaps many will think this an 
extravagant attempt, but I am fo confident of 
its fuccefs, that if I were pofleffed of 10001, 
Sterling in ready cafh, I would fet fail for 
Dantzick, and rifk 8ocl. of it upon the adven- 
ture. On bringing home my cargo of living 
bees, I would fpread them all over the king- 
dom: But, before fetting out upon fuch a voy- 
age, I would firftinform myfelf properly about 
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