208 Of preparing Honey and Wax. 
mead drawn from them; or a {tronger mead 
may be taken from the combs by foaking them, 
after the fineft of the honey is run off, without 
melting or fqueezing them at all. Indeed, in 
warm weather, fine combs will run almoit 
“quite dry, without the leaft preffure. 
| My method of running honey is this: I hang 
up a wide riddle, with the fliced honey combs in 
it, about 5 feet from the ground: About 8 or 10 
inches below this,I place a fieve, fomewhat wider 
in circumference than the riddie, and, at an 
equal diftance under the fieve, a fine fearch, pro- 
portionally wider than the fieve, under which, a 
foot lower full, I place one of my earthen covers, 
defcribed page 98, with the bottom uppermoft, 
and a {mall hole in the top, to anfwer the pur- 
pofe of a funnel. This laft being properly 
fixed in aveffel of a fufficient fize,the honey that 
runs into it is completely purified from all ex- 
traneous matter whatever, by running through 
fo many different fieves atonetime. Thus, in 
a few hours, in a warm day, I can have my . 
honey purified to the higheft degree of fine- 
nefs, without boiling or diluting it, or ufing 
any other means that would deprive it of its 
original genuine flavour ; for any {mall crumbs 
ef wax, bee-bread or the like, that pais through 
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