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Highland Society, dedication to the, 1. the author’s plan laid 
before them by Sir John Sinclair, ix. he receives their high- 
eft premium, #b.; might give {mall premiums to encourage 
the culture of bees, 228..' 
Highlands, the, turnips'and rape recommertded to be raifed 
in, 13. : ; 
Hippocrates’s fleeve, a funnel for refining wax, defcribed, 209, 
210. i 
Hives of bees, three, purchafed by the author when very young, 
vy, and gradually increafed, 7b. ; very few in Scotland, viii, 
practicability of increafing the number greatly, 7., ix 5 pro- 
fit of keeping, 4, 5, 6; eftimate of the increafe of, in 
ten years, 5, 63 little ground will keep many at work, 12 ; 
the increafe of them a great national object, 27, 46 ; reafons 
why there are fo few in Scotland, 28, 29, 303 almotft totally 
negleCted hitherto by men of property, 28 ; the want of paf= 
ture not a caufe, 293; but the inconftancy of the weather, 
ib. ; want of care, 303 and the poverty of many bee-mafters, > 
313; reafons for increafing their number, 323 practicability 
thereof, 34, 35, 303 poflible increafe, 37, 38, 39, 49, 443 
how to attain it, 43, 443 objections, 44, 453 anfwered, 46, 
473 probable increafe in feven years, 483; another method 
of increafing them, 49; the author’s confidence of its fuc- 
cefs, 50; directions to choofe ftock hives in September, 88, 
89, 90% weight neceflary to laft till June, 89, go; the 
youngeft fhould be preferred, go ; how to remove hives, gf, 
92; 93, 943 (see Removing,) how to prepare them for win- 
ter, 95, 96, 975 98; fhould not be placed too near each 
other, 95 ; directions as to the ftools, 96; the entries, i.; 
973 atid the covers, 97, 98; hundreds of hives deftroyed by 
mice, 973 fhould be kept clofe fhut up in froft and fnow, 995 
100, 1013 feldom fail in a mild winter, ros ; thould be exa- 
mined in January, 10g; deferted hives fhouldke kept to feed 
bees, 7b., 123 ; good hives feldom much hurt by robhetiesy 
120; hives fometimes found without a fingle bee, 121; caufe, — 
t.y 122,123, one good hive worth four bad, 123 3 weak hives 
deferted 
