• THE farmer’s manual. 
hive, and may be remedied either by an eking on 
the bottom of the hive, of 3, 4, 3, or 6 ihehes, as oc- 
casion may require ; or by drawing honey from the 
top of the hive, as has been described by my own 
invented hive, whicli may be considered the best 
way. The author, here, runs into a lengthy detail 
of forming ariihcial swarms, which may answer the 
purpose of curious Apiarians to amuse themselves 
with, and write about. I shall pass over the whole, 
as foreign to the design of this work, which is to il- 
lustrate the correct principles of nature, and apply 
them to the plain practical principles of common 
sense. 
CHAP. XVI. 
On preparing Honty and Wax for market. 
If a large quantity of honey is gathered annually, 
a specific place should be appropriated for its mani- 
pulation, and its aspect should always be to the 
south, and it should be perfectly secured against all 
access to the Bees. When only a small quantity of 
honey is collected, it will be sufficient to have two 
or three small sieves of horse hair cloth, with as 
many small vessels of earthen; together with some 
vessels to receive the honey, for its preservation. A 
small press is indispensably necessary, and some 
strong linen cloths which are to contain the honey 
when expressed, and finally, some great buckets, and 
glazed catlhcn vessels, with two handles, having a 
hole about half an inch from the bottom, through 
which the honey is to be poured, as it flows from the 
combs, and which must be kept constantly closed 
with a cork. To obtain the prime honey, heat,%e- 
lerity and cleatdiness are requisite. The honey 
should be extracted from the combs as soon as possi- 
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