BEE-spoke-data/bees-v0 huggingface dataset:
_Average_ value of hives, 4, 5, 0; _see_ Hives.
\(B\),
_Bargains_, cheap, of bees, may be bought from bee-killers, 2c5, _Batiles_ among bees, 8, 120, 170; _see_ Robberies _and_ Wars.
_Be-bread_, defcribed, 189; various conjectures reflecting it, 190; 191; fluppofed to be the fubfrance from which wax is made, 190; objection, _ib_.; reply, _ib_.; effenced to be food for the young bees, 191; objection, _ib_.; conjecture drawn from both hypotheles, _ib_; bees do not live on it a-line, _ib_.; would die, if there were no honey in the hive, _ib_.
**INDEX.** 233
_ib._; Reaumur's opinion, _ib._ 192; only carried into the hive
while young bees are breeding, _ib._
_Bee-Barra,_ a rivulet in the parith of Coldingham, 29,
_Bee-Edge,_ a fleading in that parith, 29.
_Bee-Hivivts,_ See_ Hives.
_Bee-mafter,_ fun proper to commence with, 5; should not
be discouraged by bad fefons, 9; should raife plenty of
turnips, 12; and clover, 14; nothing fo adverfe to his
theret as the mutability of the weather, 29; ought to take
care of his hives, 30; his feed time and hareft, 89; his
refing time, 99; should pay particular attention to his hives
in May, 131; need never be at a lots for empty hives, 148;
while fwarming, he should keep at a diflance till the bees feltle, 153.
_Bee-Park,_ a fleading near Coldingham, 29.
_Bee,_ the author appointed to watch his father's, iv; he
tracks an early fondenfs for them, v; purchafes three
hives, _ib._; fudies their nature, &c. _ib._; (_see_ Author,)
pleafure and profit of keeping them, 1; contemplated by
the ancients, _ib._; and moderns, 2; the knowledge of
them fill in a fate of infancy, _ib_; miltakes concerning
them, _ib._; emonium on their indultry, 3; fwarm twice
in good years, 4; profits ariing from them, _ib._, 5, 6;
rapid profile increafe of them, _ib._; poetical eulogium on
them, 7; discouraged by bad weather, _ib._; the author re-
fembles them, 8; their work retarded by wind, 9; though
they fometines thrive in fuch fittuations, 10; pafurrage
per for them, 11; bees very fond of the flowers of tur
nips, 12; rape, munfard, runches, 13; clover, 14; heath,
furze, and broom, &c. 15; prefer fubfrance to fhow, 16;
continue to work on the fame kind of flowers they firth
pitch on, _ib._; extremely fond of honey dew, 18; make no
change upon the honey, 20, 21; but only collect it, 22;
working bees ought never to be killed, 24, 25; (_see_ Killing;) bees formerly plentif in Scotland, 28. 29; bad
weather, the chief preventive of their thriving, 29; they
will thrive, if they have but three days per week of good
**G g**
weather,
**134**.
**1 N D E X,**
weather, 30; should be taken care of, _ib._; no danger of overflowcing a field with bees, 35; profit from bees almeft clear, 39; they put their owner to little or no expence for food, 40; should be guarded against cold, famine, and robberies, 44; they fonctimes travel far for food, _ib._ 45; acount of the Queen bee, _go_; (_see Queen_) great order among bees, 53; dittrefs of the bees for the lofs of their Queen, 56; advice of an old fage to rear another Queen, _ib._ 571 followed, _ib._; the bees kill their fopenumery ones, 66; 67; defertion of the drones, 67; (_see_.Dronet,_) fwarns thrive without them, 73; account of the working bees, 78; (_see_ Working,_) are extremely irritable, 82; how to change their temper, 83; directions to guard against their flings, 82; bees floodd never be diffurbed in cold weather, 100; when frozen, may be refored by warmth, 101; are much hurt by long confinement, 102; eat little in winter, 103; breed in all fefons, 104; (warm early in good fefons, 105; how to fapply them with food, 110; (_see_ Food,_) of their wars and robberies, 116; (_see_ Wars, Robberies,_) they confume their honey fat when they lofe their Queen in Spring, 128; cannot always be prevented from fighting, 137; will put up with any habitation, 148; time when they kill the drones, 181; lift of their enemies, 216, 55/49; (_see_ Enemies, Hives, Swarming, &c,
_Benty_ ground, not proper for bees, 35;
_Berwickhire,_ the author went from, to London, to confult Mr Wildman on bees, v.
_Birds,_ enemies to bees, 221; method to guard againf them, 222.
_Bildman_ of muffard and honey, when they appear, the air fmcils of honey, 131; _see_ Flowers.
_Board_ of Agriculture; _see_ Agriculture,
_Board_, or ftools for hives, defcribed, 96; _see_ Stools.
_Bailing_ of honey, no advantage to it, 215; but rather the contrary, 216; _see_ Honey.
_Bildman_ and gentlenets equally necclifary in handling bees, 131;
_Banner_
**i N D E X.**
**Bourner,** James, the author's father, fond of rearing bees, iv; anecdotes of him, _ib.\(i\) purchased a family bible with his wax one year, _ib.\(i\); and nearly fupplied the family with oat? meal from his honey, _ib._
_Roy_ may watch bees in fwarming time, 150:
_Bragwort_, or weak mead, a fubfitute for fsmall beer, 41:
_Breeding_ of bees, amazing extent of the, 198, 199; _Sare_ Pro: life Powers, Queen, &c.
_Britain_, the culture of bees has never been carried to any height in, vi.; a great part of, covered with heath, 15 i might foon export honey and wax, inflead of importing them, 27; might be almost covered with bee-hives at pro- per difiances, 96.
_Bram_, the flowers of, agreeable to bees, 15; benefits of al- lowing it to grow, 40; ought to be fown on dykes of wafle ground, 43.
_Hutter_, a writer on bees, 2; quoted; 108.
_Butter_, honey a fubfitute for, 42:
**C.**
_Calculation_ of the extent to which bees may be raifed, 5; of the quantity of honey and wax that might be produced in Scotland, 37; of the number of eggs laid each day in a hive, 198, 199; of bees brought to perfection in three weeks, _ib._i of eggs in a cod fish, _ib._
_Caloyer_, anecdote of a, 225;
_Caman_ famous for honey, iv. 1:
_Candlemus_, the author once faw loaded bees fo early as, 125.
_Candid_ honey, enquiry into the cautes of, 212; not hurtful to bees, 213; _see_ Honey.
_Care_, proper, to be taken of bees, 30; neglect of this a caufie of their not thriving, _ib._
_Carriage_ of bee-hives by land; 91, 92, 93; by water prefera: ble, 94.
236 INDEX.
_Cafet_, nine, of artificial fwarming, fated, i70, _et feq.; see_ Swarming.
_Call_, royal, are called by the common bees, to raife Queens, 60; feveral of them in a hive, 63; empty or raife ones defcribed, _ib._64; doubt refrepeding the matter thrown into the royal cells, 65; uncertain whether it is generative or nutritive, _ib._; the royal, cells torn by the young Queens, 164; number, weight and form of them, 165; manner of their fufpention from the hives, _ib._
_Chevy_ chace, quotation from, 174.
_Changing_ the futation of bees, advantages of, 185, _et feq.; see_ Situation.
_Cleging_ flock hives, directions for, 88. _See_ Hives, September, &c.
_Clergymen_ avided to keep bee-hives, 225; the wife of one draws a good deal of money from the author for her honey, _ib._; two have wrote on the fubjcd, _ib_; anecdote of a Grecian prifl, _ib._; and of a Spanish one, 226.
_Clover_, a principal plant from which the bees colle\(\Omega\) honey, 11; continues long in flower, 14; ought to be raifed in great abundance, _ib._; the bees extremely fond of it, _ib._; produces white honey, 21; advantages of fowing it, 40; virgin honey collected from its flowers, 213.
_Claffer_ of bees, fo firmly compacted about a Queen, that they could hardly be federated, 170; this done fometmes by enemies, _ib._; fomettimes by friends, 171.
_Cod Fijb_, number of eggs in 2, 199.
_Codd_, extremely hurtful to bees, 7, 29, 44, 99, 100, 186, 217; how to guard them againit it, 100, 101, 1031 many die in fevere frofts, 104, 121, 122; the fame degree of, fatal to bees in Britain and Ruffia, 105; as great here for one week as in Ruffia or Siberia, 106; whole hives of bees killed by cold, 197.
_Coldingham_, the author's native parifh, formerly famous for bees, 29; capable of maintaining fifteen hundred bee-hives, 57.
_Celonies_
**INDE X.**
**F**
_Famine,_ direGions to preferve bees from, 110, 115, 131; _iii_
_Farmert,_ gentlemen, adviled to rear bees, 226, 227.
_Feeding,_ _ie_ Combs, and Food.
_Filtb_ hurtful to bees, 223, 224.
_Flowers,_ melithous,_ the number of, in Britain almotfinite,
**vi.,** the principal ones proper for bees, catalogue of, 11,
13, 14, 15; no kind of, refufed by them, 16; thofe firth
pitched on, preferred ever after, _ib.,_; honey contained in
all flowers, 23; thoufands of millions of them in Scotland,
33, 34; artificial to be railed, where natural ones fail, 40;
various kinds recommended to be fown, 43, 44 : bees fly far
in search of, 44, 45.
_Food,_ directions how to fupply bees with, 110; four methods,
111, 113, 114, 115; weight of thofe hives that need fupplies, 125, 126; a hive with few bees will generally require none, 126; bees should be fed, when young drones are torn out before fwarming, 183; feeding combs should
be placed before hives whole ftiuations are changed, 187.
_Frozen bees,_ method to recover, 106.
_Furze,_ the flowers of, grateful to bees, 15; blofoms early and
continues long in flower, _ib._; advantage of rearing, 40;
ought to be fown on dykes or wafte ground, 43.
**G**
_Geddi,_ John, Eto; a writer on bees, 2; the inventor of colo-
ny hives, 147.
_Generation_ of bees, a miffake concerning the, 2.
_Gentleman,_ opinion of an intelligent, reflecting the change of
frup into honey, 22, 23; his experiment in proof of this,
23; anecdote of another, 44.
_Gentlemen_ of property, the increafe of Bee-hives begin to occu-
py the attention of, 26; called upon to exert themselves,
**INDEX**
_Highland_ Society, dedication+to the, i. the author's plan laid before them by Sir John Sinclair, ix. he receives their high-eff premium, _ib._; might give f
**I N D E X, 243**
**deferred gradually,** _ib._ ;** **fromo ones need no fapply of food, 125; weight of** **thefic that** **should be fupplied,** _ib._**, 126;** **a** **shinly inhabited one requires none, 126; but a well-pepoled one ought to be fupplied, even though it** **should not** **feem to need any,** _ib._ ;** **a** **have ruined when the Queen dies in fpring, 127;** **figns that a hive is in this predicament,** _ib._ **128;** **and has been long without a Queen, 128;** **to diffin-guith abortive hives, 129;** **and how to manage them, 130;** **hives differ in the number of their inhabitants, 133;** **their entries** **should be enlarged gradually in fpring, 134;** **methods of doing this,** _ib._ **;** **various circumstances attending the fwarming of hives, 150; previous fymptoms, 151; hives whofe bees are dead, preferred by young fwarms, 156, 158;** **left** **flanding through knavery or ignorance, 157;** **criterion to diffinguish between dead and living hives, 160;** **and when a hive will fwarm a fecond or third time, 162, 163;** **one large hive of more value than two fsmall ones, 167;** **weight and number of bees in hives, 168;** **how to treat a lying-out hive, 176, 178;** **a** **sign of a thriving one, 180;** **advantages of changing the fuation of hives to better pafture, 185,** _et__feem_ **the removal** **should be to a diffance, 187;** **a** **numerous hive gradually decreases, 197, 198;** **but has often as much honey and wax as other four,** _ib._ **;** **and flands a much better chance not to perilh, 199, 200;** **hives** **should be always well ftored with bees, 2e0;** **the bees of** **thefic, from which honey is taken,** **should be united to flock hives,** _ib._ **;** **hives fometimes become lighter after AuguR, and fonctimes heavier, 201,** _use_ **Habitation.** _Honey-dealers_ **of Scotland do not adulterate their honey,** _ais_ **;** **only fpoil it through ignorance,** _ib._ **;** **are unjufly fufpced,** _ib._ **_Honey_ **dew, diffuition concerning, 16;** **Mr** **Key's opinion of it, 17;** **found only on a few particular plants,** _ib_ **;** **and in fine weather, 18;** **the bees excellively fond of it,** _ib._ **;** **fpped by ants,** _ib._ **;** **very feldom feen, 19;** **not once by the author upon oak leaves,** _ib._ **;** **but on thofe of runchee and white thorn,** _ib._ **H h 2** **Honey,**
**INDEX.**
**not be boiled, \(ib\) ; left in its natural fate, \(ib\)., 216; clean-linefs all that is neceffary to produce the finet honey, \(ib\).**
_Honey_ hareft, great, but the labourers few, vii. 33; like that of corn, early or late, plentiful or fcarce, according to circumstances, no; should commence when the flowers are nearly faded, \(ib\).; the fooner honey is taken it runs the more easily, \(ib\).; runs beft in warm weather, 202; honey intend-ed to be kept in the combs should not be taken early, \(ib\).; how to take the bees and honey out of light hives, 203, 204, _Humming_, the melodious, of bees, chear the fpirits, 227.**
**I,**
_Impurity_ of every kind hurtful to bees, 213, 224.
_Incrafe_ of bee-hives, reafons for the, vi. viii. viii. pradietability of, ix, an important-national obj\(\acute{c}\), 27; of honey, pofible, in Scotland, 37; would reduce the price greatly, 41, 42; estimate of, in feven years, 47, 48; _ite_ Honey and Hives.
_JufinH_, a powerful fubfitute for reafon, 53.
_Ireland,_ the plan recommended in this work will fuit equally well.with Scotland, vi,
_fufice,_ courts of, trefapaffies in, refpeCing bees, 157; punified in, \(ib\).
**K,**
_Key,_ a writer on bees, 2; his account of the honey dew, 17, 18; and of the depredations of carwigs, 222.
_Killing_ of bees condemned, 24, 4"; reprolated by Thomfon
the poet, \(ib\)., 25; reafons againf it, 197; no working bee
should at any time be killed, 200, 238; this barabrous
practice wearing falt away, 216, 217: of drones, the time
of, 74; a fign of a thriving hive, 180; seldom takes place,
till the honey fafon be nearly over, 181; happens fooner
in fome hives than in others, \(ib\).; the bees should be af-
**1 NDEX.**
weak or fftong from the honey that remains in the combs, 207, 208.
_Melififu_, king of Crete, the inventor of bee-hives, 144; would probably never have been heard of otherwife, 228.
_Melody_ of the humming of bees, a remedy for chagrin, 227.
_Mice_, the moft pernicious enemies to bees, 97, 217; destroy hundreds of hives annually, 97.
_Millin_, the only proper numerator for the flowers of Scotland, 33, 34 ; _see Flowers_, Hives, Honey, Increafe, 8c.
_Mififaker_ concerning bees, 2, 53, 68, 70, 73, 104; [pecimen of, 2 ; corrected, 44, 45, 53, 54, 73, 104, 199, 213.
_Morland_ ftiuations, turnips and rape, proper for, 13.
_Mather_ bee, the proper name of the Queen bee, 52; her age when fhe becomes a mother, 200; _see Queen.
_Murderer_ of bees, man, one of the chiefs, 216, 217, _see_ Killing.
_Mufic_ of bees, invites different fwarms to join each other, 166, 167; a remedy for chagrin or melancholy, 227.
_Mufard_, one of the principal plants from which bees extract honey, 11; they are very fond of its flowers, 13; should be fown at different periods, to protrad the flowering fea-fon, \(ib\), 14, 43.
**N.**
_National_ importance, honey and wax objects of, 27, 40, 41:
_Necfjartis_, honey might be, made a fubtitute for fome, 41.
_Neighbouring_ proprietors of bees should join in providing flowers, 46.
_Newcastle_, the ladies and gentlemen of, fond of the honey produced from heath, 214.
_New-papers_, hints, reflecting the management of bees, might occasionally be given in, 228, 229
_Nes/s_, improper when a fwarm are rifing, 152; but neceffair y when they attempt to fly off, \(ib\), 1 in general hurrful to bees, 223; how to guard against it, \(ib\).
**O:**
_Oak,_ the leaves of, honey dew found on, 18, 19.
_Oeconomy_ rural, the culture of bees a branch of, within the reach of the pooreft cottager, vii.
_Old_ people, the increafe of bee hives would afford employment for, 48, 49, 150.
_Order_ and regularity great among bees, 53.
_Over-flecting_ fields with bees, no danger of, 34, 35, 36.
_Ozierts_, the flowers of, afford honey and work for bees, 15.
**P.**
_Parnafus,_ account of a repair of honey at, 225.
_Parnafus,_ fome, that have not twenty hives, might maintain three hundred, 32; a thoufand hives in each would not extra( the half of the honey in their flowers, 37.
_Parliament,_ an a\(\Delta\) of, should be paffed, if no law already exits, againt allowing dead hives to remain in aparies, 157.
_Pofurage_ of bees, ii. _/e Flowers,_ Muftard, Rape, &c.
_Pafure,_ good, bees thrive belt near, 1e.
_Parnafus_ called upon to attend to the fubject of this treatife, 27.
_Paneity_ of bee-hives, reasons for the, in Scotland, 28, 29, 30.
_Phiif/curs,_ a contemplator of bees, 2.
_Phiif/curs_ puzzled to account for the diverfty of talents among mankind, iii.; antient, who contemplated bees, i.
2, 144; bees worthy the attention of, 3; colony hives offul to the inquifitive, 147.
_Plane-trees,_ the flowers of, afford food for bees, 13; highly agreeable to them, _ib.;_ ought to be planted on purpofe, 43.
_Piefure_ of keeping bees, 1; 3; of the bee-mafter in fceing his hives fwarming, 15; 152; _ite_ bees, Hives, 8c.
_Peutical_ culogium on bees, 7; picture of their wars, ii7.
_Poland_, a market for purchasing bees cheap, 49.
_Poor_ among mankind, bees refemble the, 16; the culture of bees would afford employment for, 48, 49.
_Poor_
_Pear_ bee-malters adufted to raife turnips, r2; in general make more of their bees than the rich, 30; the reafon why, 31; bces, a fort of eflate to them, _ib._; avided to fell their hives, 47. _Porter_, mead a fubfitute for, 41. _Poverty_ of many bee-malters, a caufe of the paucity of bee-hives, 31. _Powers_, prolific, of the Queen, amazing, 198, 199; depend much on the fate of the hive, 199; of the cod fish, _ib._ _Pradicability_ of increafing the number of bee-hives,ix. _see_ hive. _Prefacts_, iii. _et fq._ _Premium_, fsmall, might be given to encourage the culture of bees, 228, _Pricet_ received and paid for honey and wax, 38, 39; would be reduced by the propofed increafe of bee-hives, 41. 42. _Prineufs_, young Queens, their proclamations, 163. _see_ Queen. _Profit_ of keeping bees, 4, 5, 6, 38, 39.
**O.**
_Queen_ bee, a mifake concerning the, 2; defcribed, 50, 51; very pacific, 51; ought to be called the mother bee, as the lays all the eggs, 52; and exerts no foveerighty, _ib._; is anxious for the good of the commonwealth, _ib._; errors reflecting her, 53; refuted, _ib._; 54; can be raifed from a common egg, _ib._; can lay eggs to produce bees, and become a mother without feeling'a drone, 55; experiment in proof of this, _ib._; 56; diftrefs of the bees for want of their Queen, 57; they raife another, _ib._; who lays eggs, 58; another experiment, _ib._; objcions, _ib._; 59; anfever-ed, 59; method of rearing a Queen, 60; gradual metamorphosis, 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, 64; difficulties reflecting the matter injected into the royal cells, 65; more Queen bees raifed than are needed for fwarms, 66; the I i fupernumerary
fupernumerary ones killed, _ib._; a fpure Queen, however, often ufeful, 67; little drones fuppofed to impregnate her, 70, 71; the contrary proved, 72, 73; when a Queen dies in fpring, her lofs cannot be fupplied, 127; the author can caufe the bees rear as many as he pleafes, 140, 141; the Queen, the only allurement for bees in fwarming, 153; hide herfelt with great art on thefce oceafions, 162; her petition or proclamation to her fellow emigrants, 163; feveral young Queens fometimes in a hive, _ib._; 165; their voices different, _ib._; conjecture refpeding them, 163; royal cells torn by the young Queens, 164; old Queens fometimes head a colony, _ib._; the young ones often take an airing, 165, 166; when fwarms meet they fogtht till one of their Queens be killed, 170; hundreds of bees clanter round them, _ib._; either for attack or defence, _ib._; 171; Queen to be kept clofe priorner, 171; 179; experiment with two Queens in one hive, 173; a duel enfues, 174; the author feparates them, and faves both, _ib._; consequences of the lofs of a Queen, 180, 181; probable that the can'lay only a certain number of eggs, 197; calculation of the number the lays each day, 198, 199; number at one time in her ovarium, 199; the breeds amazingly fat, _ib._; but in proportion to the fate of the hive, _ib._; fome Queens more fruitful than others, _ib._; only one breeding Queen in a hive at a time, _ib;_; age, when the becomes a mother, 200.
_Notation_ from Trifram Shandy, iii.; Nature Delineated, 16; Mr Key, 17, 18, 73, 212; Thomfon's Seafons, 24, 25; Schirach 53, 54; Bonnet, 54; Swammerdam, 68, 199; Debraw, 70; Stephen White, 103; Wildman, 105; Virgil, 117; Thorley, 164, 192; Maxwell, 157, 192; Chevy chac, 174. Reaumur, 191, 199; Wheeler's journey into Greece, 225, 226; the Account of the fleep in Spain, 226.
_Rain_ injurious to bees, 7, 36, 169, _see_ Weather.
**INDEX:**
**1**_exp_, note of the principal plants that produce flowers proper for bees, 11, 13,1 flowers later than turnips, 13.
**Rrafan** for the paucity of bee-hives in Scotland, 28, 29, 30, 31; for increasing their number, 32.
**Ranumur**, a writer on bees, quoted, 191, 199.
**Re-inforcing** bee-hives, directions for, 335, 4/29. definition and object of, 136; circumstances that render it neceffary, \(ib\), \(i\) precautions, \(ib\), \(j\) ambafiadors should be fent to the deficient hive, 137, bees will fight at one time and unite at another, \(i\)30; driving and rapping defcribed, \(ib\), 139; the operation quite cafy, 140; how to re-inforce weak hives, 141, 142, 143.
**Remefies** for the fing of a bee, 87, 88.
**Remeving** of bee-hives, 91, from a great diflance by land, 92; danger of jolting, 93; water carriage far preferable, 94.
_Rich_ proprietors awied to raife turnips, 12; might make much more of their bees than they do, 30.
**Rebberie** and wars of bees, 116; defcribed, 117; danger of coming near the battle, \(ib\), \(i\)caufes, 118; how to diffinguith robbers, 119; and get rid of them, \(ib\), 120; robbers of the human fpecies defrucive to bees, 217; as well as thofe of their own, \(ib\).
**Raguifb** bee-mafters, dead hives left by, to entice their neighbours (warms, 157; ought to be friolly punified, \(ib\), \(j\) (_ee Law_) a roguith honey dealer jully rewarded, 215.
**Requal** cells erected to rear Queens, 60, _ee_ Cells.
**Runchex**, the flowers of, proper food for bees, 13.
**Ruffia**, bees might be imported cheap from, 49; endure a fe- were cold in, 105; the cold as great here one week lately, as in, 106.
_Safe-guard_, or hainefs, defcribed, 83:
_Sallows_, the flowers of, afford work and materials for bees,
15; ought to be planted by men of property, 43.
_Sammf's_ dead lion, made a hive of, by the bees, 148.
**I i a** _Savage,251 I N D E X.
_Sawagu,_ Abbe Boiffier de, his telfinony that ants fp honey dew, 19.
_Scale,_ fsmall white, of wax, defcribed, 192; Mr Thorley's account of them, _ib._ 193; very feldom feen, 193, 194; his inferences as to the formation of wax, controverted, _ib._ 1 and refuted, 194, 195.
_Schirach,_ Mr, refutes fome old errors reflecting the Queen bee and drones, 53, 54; his experiments fatisfactory, 54.
_Scotland,_ conjecture refecting the quantity of honey and wax it might produce, 23, 24; reasons why there are fo few bee-hives in it, 28, 29; probability that bees were formerly more plentiful in it, _ib._ 1 abundantly fupplied with proper food for bees, 32, 33, 34.
_Screen,_ in excfive hot weather, fhould be ufed to keep off the fun's rays, 155.
_Sagu,_ the worth, a tolerable quantity of honey produced in, viii.
_September,_ how to choofe flock hives in, 88; the Bee-mafter's feed time and havreft, 89; hives cheapf then, _ib._ 1ee_ Hives.
_Sileria,_ the cold in Scotland for one weck, laft winter, as great as in, 106.
_Sinclair,_ Sir John, the author's rift meeting with, x. the fortunate confequences, _ib._ xi._ 1ee_ Author.
_Situations,_ unfavourable for bees, 35; fuch as are proper for bee-hives, numerous in Scotland, 40; early, recommended, 124; advantages of changing them, to better patfutrage, 185; _(e' /ig._ the only danger, 185; directions how to change them, _ib._; how long to keep the bees prisoners, _ib._; and how to treat them, 187; the removal fhould be to fome diflance, _ib._; bad confequences if too near, 188, 189.
_Snaill,_ the whole genus of, faid to be hermaphrodites, 66; of-ten creep into hives, 97; but feldom do much hurt _ib._
_Society,_ the Highland, the author receives a Premium from, xi.
_set_ Highland.