INDEX. 249 
Poor bee-mafters advifed to raife turnips, 12 ; in general make 
more of their bees than the rich, 30; the reafon why, 31 ; 
bees, a fort of eftate to them, 75.3; advifed to fell their 
hives, 47. 
Porter, mead a fubftitute for, 41. 
Poverty of many bee-mafters, a caufe of the paucity of bee- 
hives, 31. 
Powers, prolific, of the Queen, amazing, 198, 199; depend 
much on the ftate of the hive, 199 3 of the cod fith, 2d. 
_ Praéicability of increafingthe number of bee-hives, ix. see hives. 
) Prefacey iii. et feq. 
_ Premiums, {mall, might be given to encourage the culture of 
Hees, 228, ) 
Prices received and paid for honey and wax, 38, 393 would 
be reduced by the propofed increafe of bee-hives, 41. 42. 
% | Princeffes, young Queens, their proclamations, 163. see Queen. 
_ Profit of keeping bees, 4, 5, 6, 38, 39. 
O. 
Queen bee, a miftake concerning the, 23 defcribed, 50, 51; 
- very pacific, 515 ought to be called the mother bee, as fhe 
lays all the eggs, 52; and exerts no fovereignty, 7d. ; is an- 
_xious for the good of the commonwealth, 7d. ; errors re- 
. fpeCting her, 53; refuted, 2d. 54; can be raifed from a 
‘common egg, 26; can lay eggs to produce bees, and 
. become a mother without feeing a drone, §5; experiment 
in proof of this, 74. 56; diftrefs of the bees for want of 
their Queen, 57; they raife another, 74. ; who lays eggs, 
58; another experiment, 74. ; objections, 72. 595 an{wer- 
ed, 59; method of rearing a Queen, 60; gradual meta- 
morphofis, 61; doubtful whether every egg in a common 
cell can be raifed to be a Queen, 62; the author has cauf- 
ed two hundred artificial Queens to be reared, 63; fign 
when a Queen may be depended upon, 4 5 difficulties re- 
fpecting the matter injected into the royal cells, 653 more 
Queen bees raifed than are needed for fwarms, 66; the 
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