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prcferve the butter. Sugar is known to be a much 

 more powerful antifeptic than common fait, and 

 probably honey may be in that refpedl nearly on a 

 ■par with fugar. If fo, it would be reafonable to 

 fuppofe that one ounce of honey might be fufHcient 

 to preferve fixteen ounces of butter. In that cafe 

 the tafte of the honey would not be extremely per- 

 ceptible, fo that the butter, even to thofe who might 

 not relifh the fweet compofition above-mentioned, 

 might prove very agreeable, efpecially if a little 

 fait were mixed with it when about to be ufed. A 

 few experiments would be fufficient to afcertaia 

 this particular. 



From the circumftance of the honey incorpora* 

 ting with the butter, and not feparating from it 

 while in a fluid ftate, it would promife nearly to 

 accomplifh the purpofe wanted above. Whether, 

 when it became very fluid, and was long continued 

 in that ftate, any feparation would take place j or 

 whether the honey in thefe circumftances would be 

 in danger of fermenting -, are queftions that experi-* 

 ence alone can determine. Sugar, though it would 

 preferve the butter equally well while it continued 

 in a folid ftate, would doubtlefs feparate from it 

 when it became fluid. Whether melaflTes would do 

 fo, or what efFeds they would in this cafe produce, 

 I cannot tell; but a few experiments would afcer^ 



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