216 SEPARATION OF WAX AND HONEY. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 

 SEPARATION OF WAX AND HONEY. 



AFTER deprivation, the box or hive containing 

 the combs should be kept in a warm room, till 

 it is convenient to drain it of its contents, as 

 the more fluid the honey, the sooner and the 

 more completely will it run off; this is of course 

 a reason for not deferring the draining longer than 

 can be avoided. 



The combs should be separated from the boxes 

 or hives with the broad spatula and the double- 

 edged instrument recommended in chapter XL 

 and placed afterwards on a clean dish. The 

 waxen covers, on both sides of the sealed combs, 

 should be sliced off, when by placing them on a 

 hair sieve the honey will run through tolerably 

 fine, and may be caught in an earthen pan. For 

 prime purposes the purest combs should be 

 selected, and their honey passed through a sepa- 

 rate sieve. Mr. Isaac recommends letting this 

 fine honey drop through the sieve into a silk sarse, 

 such as is used by the apothecary for sifting fine 

 powders, and from the sarse into an earthen 

 pan ; this would enable the apiarian to obtain 

 his honey in a more depurated state. The sarse 

 must be first wetted, or the honey will not run 





