216 Of the different Kinds of Foney. 
of refining it, inftead of improving the honey, - 
often communicate a bad tafte or flavour to it. 
I therefore ufe no other method with my ho- 
ney, than to let it run freely from the combs, 
as above, and take particular care, that none of 
the eggs or bee-bread, get amongft it. And 
indeed this is all the art which is required to 
make the very fineft of honey ;—namely, clean- 
linefs: Let it only be keep as clean as the bees . 
kept it, and the fineft of honey will be the pro- 
duce. ~ oft 
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CHAP. XXVIN. 
©F THE VARIOUS ENEMIES OF BEES, AND HOW TO GUARD 
AGAINST THEM. 
QO, all the enemies the bees have hitherto had 
to encounter, MAN may juftly be confidered as 
the greateft. For while he follows the old bar- 
barous cuftom of killing whole hives of that in- 
duftrious race, for the fake of their honey, (a _ 
cuftom which, in many nations, has begun to - 
yield to a more ceconomical, as. well as a more 
ae humane 
