ON HONEtf. I93 



beft. For every comb, or part of a comb, 

 that has had farina or brood in it, is thereby 

 rendered impure, fo that fo much of any 

 comb or combs, whether of /warms or /locks % 

 thus circumftanced, is not virgin. 



This is evident from the /warms breeding 

 through the fummer equally with the flocks, 

 and their combs being equally charged with 

 brood and farina. The wax from fuch 

 combs will indeed be Jiner, and in greater 

 quantity than that of frocks. The conti- 

 nued ufe of the cells in breeding, firft foils 

 them, and at length renders them impure y 

 but the cells where nothing but honey has 

 been depofited, and which, when full, have 

 been fealed over, are certainly MOST pure. 

 As to quality, that of virgin combs may be 

 as ordinary as that of flocks, if both were 

 gathered at the fame time, and from the 

 fame kind of flowers. 



The older combs are the weightiefl; for the 

 bees will cement the Jkins of the different 

 breeds of maggots to the fides of the cells, to 

 flrengthen them, till at lafl they become as 

 fliff as brown paper. 



Old farina and other matters are conti- 

 O nually 



