VARIETIES AND CLARIFICATION OP HONEY. 229 
bees always yield, under like circumstances, whitish honey, 
whether the same be separated from the wax without heat, 
or at a temperature of from 88°. 25 F. to 99° F., and by 
pressure. It is also well known that honey becomes brown 
or impure if too great heat and too strong pressure be ap- 
plied. Brown honey has a less specific weight, and does 
not become so quickly granular as white honey. 
Bright yellow honey of young bees, whose food consisted 
chiefly of buckwheat blossoms, solidified, after three or four 
weeks, into a crumbly unctuous mass, and had a specific 
weight of from 1.425 to 1.429. Honey of old bees from the 
same place concreted only after four and six weeks and 
formed a crumbly unctuous mass, having a specific gravity 
of from 1.415 to 1.422. 
Honey of a heath country (heath-honey) was of a pale 
yellow colour, harder than the before-mentioned, and had 
a specific weight of 1,425 to 1.434. From old bees of the 
same heath-country the honey was light brown, and had a 
specific weight of 1.422 to 1.430. 
Honey of a marshy country (marsh-honey), where the 
bees had gathered their food chiefly from the flowers of the 
Brassica, Vicia Faba, and Trifolium, was almost white, 
hardened after six or eight days into a mass which could be 
compared to melted ox-tallow, and had a specific weight of 
from 1.435 to 1.440, and was consequently the heaviest of 
the whole and possessed the best qualities. Marsh honey, 
therefore, is in much request. 
2. Preservation. — The preservation of honey is best 
effected in small wooden tubs with well closed lids, so that 
such a vessel when once opened may be emptied in three 
or four months. The honey after having run, and been 
pressed out of the comb at a temperature of from 8S°.25 F. 
to 90° F. should be immediately poured in these vessels 
which should be put in a dry cool spot. When the honey 
has concreted, it should be covered with waxed paper, and 
and the vessels closed with well fitted lids. Earthen pots 
