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may also be kept up by allowing it to flow in a 

 room where there is a fire. The comb should be 

 kept from the air as much as possible, for which 

 purpose some cultivators make use of a tin-covered 

 vessel, pierced with holes at the bottom, and made 

 to fit into another similar vessel fit to receive the 

 honey. Pieces of comb, sliced horizontally, are 

 put into this covered vessel, and the honey filters 

 through the bottom, being first passed through a 

 filter of wire-cloth or muslin placed at a little dis- 

 tance above the other. This upper filter prevents 

 the vessel from becoming clogged with particles 

 of wax, and increases the purity of the honey. A 

 spigot in the lower vessel allows the honey to 

 pass out into store jars. 



Such are some of the processes by which the 

 honey and wax of bees are made available to our 

 use. Honey is of less importance to mankind 

 since the discovery of sugar; but it will always 

 rank among the wholesome and agreeable luxuries 

 of life ; while in countries where sugar is not so 

 easily obtained as it is among ourselves, it holds a 

 much more important position. In the Ukraine, 



