194 ON HONEY. 



nually an increafing addition to their weight 

 and confidence, fo as with difficulty to be 

 feparated from the real wax, even by a 

 long boiling, and then but partially. Honey 

 depofited in fuch old combs, necefiarily re- 

 ceives a tinge, tafte, and fome impurities 

 from them. However, parts of fome combs 

 in old hives, that have been lately made, may 

 be virgin. 



It is for the reafons above, that a hive of 

 ftale combs, though bulky and weighty, dif» 

 appoints the expectation, by producing, in 

 general, only one pound of wax. 



The honey generally brought to the Lon- 

 don and other markets is moftly foul, and of a 

 coarfe quality, from the caufes above ftated, 

 as well as from the carelefs and uncleanly 

 manner by which it is extraSied. The com- 

 mon method is, by taking the combs out of 

 the hives by piece-meal, indifcr\m'inately y and 

 mafhing them, dead bees, brood, farina, and 

 drofs all together; which muft needs render 

 it an heterogeneous mafs, of a difagreeable 

 and often naufeous tafte, and unwholefome 

 in quality. 



For 



