INDEX. 243 
_deferted gradually, id. ; ftrong ones need no fupply of food, 
1253 weight of thofe that fhould be fupplied, i., 126; a 
thinly inhabited one requires none, 126 ; but a well-peopled 
one ought to be fupplied, even though it fhould not feem 
_ to need any, 2b.; ahive ruined when the Queen dies in 
{pring, 1273 figns that a hive is in. this predicament, 7.5 
128; and has been long without a Queen, 1283 to diftin- 
guith abortive hives, 129; and how to manage them, 130; 
hives differ in the number of their inhabitants, 133; their 
entries fhould be enlarged gradually in {pring, 1343 me- 
~ thods of doing this, 2. ; various circumftances attending the 
{warming of hives, 150; previous fymptoms, 151; hives whofe 
bees are dead, preferred by young fwarms, 156, 168% left 
ftanding through knavery or ignorance, 1573 criterion to 
diftinguith between dead and living hives, 160; and when 
a hive will {warm a fecond or third time, 162, 163 3 one 
large hive of more value than two {mall ones, 167; weight 
and number of bees in hives, 168 ; how to treat a lying-out 
hive, 176, 1783 a fign of a thriving one, 1803 advantages 
_ of changing the fituation of hives to better pafture, 18s, 
et feqg. the removal fhould be to a diftance, 1873 a nume- 
ous hive gradually decreafes, 197, 1983 but has often as 
much honey and wax as other four, 2d. ; and ftands a much 
better chance not to perifh, 199, 200; hives fhould be al- 
‘ways well ftored with bees, 200; the bees of thofe, from 
which honey is taken, fhould be united to ftock hives, 74. ; 
hives fometimes become lighter after Auguft, and fome- 
times heavier, 201, see Habitation. 
Honey-dealers of Scotland do not adulterate their honey, 216 ; 
only {poil it through ignorance, 75. are unjuftly fufpected, 15. 
| _ Honey dew, difquifition concerning, 16; Mr Key’s opinion of 
_ it, 173 found only on a few particular plants, 26 ; and in 
fine weather, 18 ; the bees exceflively fond of it, 72. ; fipped 
' by ants, 2. ; very feldom feen, 19 3 not once by the author 
upon oak leaves, 14.3; but on thofe of runches.and white 
thorn, id. : 
Hh2 Honey, 
