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largely in the latter part of Summer, his colonies will fill up 

 their hives before working in the spare honey boxes, and 

 thus the production of brood will often be checked, at a sea- 

 son when it is important to have the hives well stocked with 

 young bees. 



If Apiarians desire large quantities of choice honey, let 

 them manage their bees so as to have powerful stocks in the 

 early Spring, and they will then be able to have both heavy 

 purses and light consciences. I shall now show how liquid 

 honey, exceedingly beautiful to the eye, and tempting to the 

 taste, may be made to great advantage : 



Dissolve two pounds of the purest white sugar, in as much 

 hot water as will be just necessary to reduce it to a syrup ; 

 take one pound of the nicest white clover honey, (any other 

 light colored honey of good flavor will answer.) and after 

 warming it, add it to the syrup, and stir the contents. When 

 cool, this compound will be pronounced, even by the best 

 judges of honey, to be one of the most luscious articles 

 which they ever tasted ; and will be, by almost every one, 

 preferred to the unmixed honey. Refined loaf-sugar is a 

 perfectly pure and inodorous sweet, and one pound of honey 

 will communicate the honey flavor, in high perfection, to 

 twice that quantity of sugar ; while the new article will be 

 destitute of that smarting taste which pure honey so often 

 has, and will ofien agree with those who cannot eat the clear 

 honey with impunity. If desired, this compound may be 

 made to resemble the classic honey of Mount Hymettus, by 

 adding to it the fine aroma of the lemon balm, or wild 

 thyme ; or it may have the flavor of the orange groves, or 

 the delicate fragrance of beds of roses washed with dew. 



Bees may be .made to store in boxes, a mixture of the 

 whitest honey and loaf sugar ; but the result shows a loss 

 rather than a gain. The mixture, will cost about twelve 



