shai be boiled, #4. ; beft in its natural flate, 75., 216; clean- 
linefs all that is neceflary to produce the fineft honey, ib. 
Honey harveft, great, but the labourers few, vii-, 23 3 like that 
of corn, early or late, plentiful or fearce, according to cir- 
cumftances, 2015; fhould commence when the flowers are 
nearly faded, 24. ; the fooner honey is taken it runs the more 
ealily, 26. ; runs beft in warm weather, 202; honey intend- 
ed to be kept in the combs fhould not be taken early, 22.3 
how to take the bees and honey out of light hives, 203, 204. 
Humming, the melodious, of bees, chear the fpirits, 227. 
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Impurity of every kind hurtful to bees, 223,224. 
Increafe of bee-hives, reafons for the, vi. vii. vill. practicability 
of, ix, an important national objeCt, 27 3 of honey, poflible, 
in Scotland, 37 ; would reduce the price greatly, 41, 423 
_ eftimate of, in feven years, 47, 483 see Honey and Hives. 
Inflind, a powerful fubftitute for reafon, 53. 
Ireland, the plan recommended in this work will fuit equally 
well with Sotland, vi. | 
Fufiice, courts of, trefpafles in, refpecting bees, 157 3 punifhed 
in, 75, 
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Keys, a writer on bees, 25 his account of the honey dew, 
17, 183 and of the depredations of earwigs, 222. 
: Killing of bees condemned, 24, 47 5 reprobated by Thomfon 
the poet, 74., 25 ; reafons againft it, 1973 no working bee 
fhould at any time be killed, 200, 2283 this barbarous 
practice wearing faft away, 216, 217: of drones, the time 
of, 743 a fign of a thriving hive, 180 ; feldom takes place 
till the honey feafon be nearly over, 1813 happens fooner 
in fome hives than in others, if. ; the bees fhould be af- 
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