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INDEX. oo 
Eek, definition of an, 110; diretions refpecting it, 111, 112, 
and 203. 
figgs, different kinds of, erroneoully fuppofed to have been 
laid by the Queen bee, 2; all the eggs in the hive laid by 
her, 523 doubts refpecting the eggs in the common cells, 
625 and the decayed eggs, 128, 1293 method to difcover 
them, 129 5 may continue in the hives for years, without 
much hurt to the bees, 1303 probable that the Queen can 
lay only a certain number, 197; calculation of the number 
daily laid by her, 198; and brought to perfection, 1993 of 
the number in a cod fith, 7. 
Eagland, the plan recommended in this work will fuit, as well 
as Scotland, vi. 
Encouragements, various experienced by the author, viii, ix, x, 
xi; see Author. 
Encomium on bees, 3; poetical ditto, ¢. ' 
inemies of bees, account of the various, 216; s /eg. man hi- 
therto the chief one, 216; how to guard again{t them, id. 
219, feq.; see Ants, Birds, Cold, Earwigs, Famine, Filth, 
Impurity, Noife, Robbers, Spiders, Wafps, Wax-moth, 
Weather, Wood-lice. 
Entries to hives, exact fize of, 97; fhould be fhut up in win- 
ter, yg; and gradually widened in {pring, 133, 134; their 
fize in March and April, 134, and in the midft of Summer, 
ib.; method of enlarging them, 7b, 
Ffrrors in the Author’s former praCtice, retracted and correc- 
Hed, WN3O,18 91,7178, 107: 
Exhibitions of bees, which the author can perform, 140, 141. 
FEixpence, little or no, incurred by rearing bees, 40. 
Experience, length of the author’s, in bees, 229. 
Experiments refpeCting bees, 20, 22, 23, 56, 59, 715 73: 106, 
L70., 
eS honey and wax might be rendered articles of, xii. 
ie Famine, 
