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INDEX. i 
1. > Reaumur’s opinion, #3. 1923 only carried into the hive 
while young bees are breeding, id. ws 
Bee-Burn, a rivulet in the parith of Coldingham, 29, 
Bee-Edge, a fteading in that parifh, 29. 
Bee-Hives, See Hives. 
Bee-mafter, {um proper to commence with, 53 fhould not 
be difcouraged by bad feafons, 9; thould raife plenty of 
turnips, 123; and clover, 14; nothing fo adverfe to his in- 
tereft as the mutability of the weather, 29; ought to take 
care of his hives, 30; his feed time and harveft, 89; his 
refting time, 9g ; fhould pay particular attention to his hives 
in May, 1313 need never be at a lofs for empty hives, 148 ; 
while f{warming, he flould keep ata diftance till the bees fet- 
tle, 153. 
Bee-Park, a fteading near Coldingham, 29. 
Bees, the author appointed to watch his father’s, iv; he con- 
tras an early fondnefs for them, v; purchafes three 
hives,’ 2.3; ftudies their nature, &c. 2d.3 (see Author,) 
pleafure and profit of keeping them, 1; contemplated by 
the ancients, 74.; and moderns, 2; the knowledge of 
them flill in a ftate of infancy, 76; miftakes concerning 
them, iJ. 3 encomium on their induftry, 3; fwarm twice 
in good years, 43; profits arifing from them, 1. 5, 63 ra- 
pid pofflible increafe of them, 7.5 poetical eulogium on 
them, 7; difcouraged by bad weather, 2.5 the author re- 
fembles them, 8; their work retarded by wind, g; though 
they fometimes thrive in fuch fituations, 10 ; pafturage pro- 
per for them, 113 bees very fond of the flowers of tur- 
nips, 12; rape, muftard, runches, 13 3 clover, 14; heath, 
furze, and broom, &c. 153 prefer fubftance to fhow, 165 
continue to, work on the fame kind of flowers they firft 
pitch on, 7b. ; extremely fond of-honey dew, 18 ; make no 
change upon the honey, 20, 213 but only collect it, 225 
working bees ought never to be killed, 24, 253 (see Kil- 
ling ;) bees formerly plentiful in Scotland, 28. 293 bad 
weather, the chief preventive of their thriving, 29; they 
will thrive, if they have but three days per week of good 
) Gg weather, 
