s as have young bees or brood in them, as they
would give your honey a bad flavour and render it unwholesome, and the
bee-brood must also be separated and melted with the brood-combs. When
you have thus separated the combs, let such as are very fine be nicely
drained by themselves, without the least pressing whatever, having been
carefully cleaned of every sort of filth, or insects, and dividing each
comb in such a manner that the cells may be open at both ends, and
placing them upon a sieve or coarse cloth, that the honey may drain
off quite pure and undefiled. The remainder of the combs from which
the honey has been thus drained, together with those which contained
the bee-bread and brood, must be put into a coarse cloth or bag, and
squeezed or pressed to get all the honey out. This will make it inferior
in quality, and unfit for many uses, therefore it should be put into
pots or bottles by itself, to feed bees with, for which purpose it will
be better than pure honey, on account of the bee-bread that will be
mixed with it, which is necessary for their subsistence.

"In order to obtain the wax in a pure state, what remains of the combs
after separating the honey, together with the empty combs which had been
laid aside, should be put into a copper with clean water; made to boil
gently over a slow fire, keeping it constantly stirring. When it is
melted, run it through a coarse cloth or bag made for the purpose, and
put it into a press to separate the wax from the dross. Let the wax run
from the press into a vessel placed under it, into which put some water
to prevent the wax adhering to the sides.

"If this process of boiling and pressing is repeated twice or even three
times, the wax will be much purer and consequently of greater value.
Set it in a place where it may cool by degrees, in pans of the size you
would choose your cakes to be, with some water in them, to prevent the
wax sticking to the sides whilst hot. Honey should be kept only in stone
jars, called Bristol ware, and in a cool and dry situation, but not
corked up until a week or two after it has transuded through the sieve,
&c., but should be carefully covered with perforated sheets of zinc to
keep out insects and flies, &c. after which period the jars may be
secured and put into the store-rooms.

"The only protection necessary for gentlemen,--for ladies, I presume,
would never venture to undertake the dangerous task of extracting the
honey combs from hiv