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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10606	A discourse or historie of bees Shewing their nature and usage, and the great profit of them. VVhereunto is added the causes, and cure of blasted wheat. And some remedies for blasted hops, and rie, and fruit. Together with the causes of smutty wheat: all which are very usefull for this later age. Written by Richard Remnant.	Remnant, Richard.	1637 (1637)	STC 20879; ESTC S105189	29,705	52

And this is the reason that they may not bee fed in cold winter but onely when they gather at the spring or summer cold Also keepe your Hives close in winter by putting stones at the mouth of the Hive to prevent mice from going in and open them wider or shut them up closer in the spring time according as the weather proves hotter or colder and according to the strength or weakenesse of your stocks Alwaies in snowie weather remember to shut up your Bees close in sunshine or else they will out and be drowned or chilled And sometimes in cold springs a poore swarme may bee starved or benummed before you are aware I once found two or three so benummed that none of them were able to stirre but sat as dead Bees How to recover chilled Bees Then made I an indifferent big fire before them and tooke them off their seares and turned them open against the fire and so the warmth recovered them and made them move then I sprinkled hony in among them and set them up and laid salt on their stooles within the Hives and then they came forth presently and went to worke so then I fed them a little every day and recovered them Also you must remember to bee very carefull in keeping hoggs or horses Be sure to keep cattell from them or any cattell from comming neere them to trouble them Once I knew a good Nag stung to death by them But if any trouble or disturbance chance and they prove very angry and cruell and unruly then make a great smoake among them and so they will quickly bee quiet and still againe Many things more I could have shewed concerning Bees but these I have here delivered are things of use and most needfull to be knowne How to take Bees Now when God hath blessed your labours and sent you store you may receive the benefit of your labour by selling or taking some And alwayes if any be over fat and their combs all filled with hony be sure to take them which to doe and how to make and order your hony and waxe is shewed in the next chapter CHAP. 9. Of making hony mead and wax How to take Bees TO take your Bees doe thus untwist an old rope or cord and of the severall liches cut peeces six or eight inches in length then melt Brimston in a pan or potsheard and dip the peeces of cord into it and wet it round as a candle then take some little tub or deepe bowle or else dig an hole in the ground and lay two sticks over it and then light or kindle your match and then put them on a short candle-stick or a peece of clay and set it into the bowle or hole and set the stock of Bees over it and keep in the aire round about the Hive with an old cloth and so the steeme or vapour of the brimston will kill the Bees stone dead How to make hony then take out the combs and brush off the Bees if any hang on and breake out the dead brood if any be then put all those combs that have hony in them into a pan or kettle and bruise them together and straine it through a thin cloth-bag or if you will have your hony very fine let it run through a sieve without crushing Now if your hony were gathered on good land in a good soile it will need no warming but if on course or clay land you must set it on the fire when it is strained and make it twice blood-warme then stirre it well and put it into the vessell where you intend to keepe it and after a while scum it and it will be candied Mead. How to make Mead. Now when you have taken as much hony out of your combs or pulse as you can doe then wash your puls with water made blood-warme and make your Mead with that And if you desire to have your Mead very good and strong make it so full of the hony that it will beare a hen-egge swimming as broad as a sixe pence on the top then set it over the fire and boyle it well and take the scum clean off then set it a clearing into a kive or tub two or three daies till it be cleare and then draw it off from the lees or grounds and put it up into a vessell but stop it not too close for the strength of it will teare the vessell in peeces Also if you will you may put in a bag of spices thereinto in boyling But now Metheglin how to make metheglin I purpose not to teach you for it is part of my present trading both hony and metheglin have an excellent vertue for many cures being moderately taken they doe remedy many diseases The good use of hony mead and metheglin They are especially good against a cold consumption or cold watery stomacke as also against divers other both inward outward diseases Also there may bee admirable Baths made of it and strange cures have beene done therewith it is proved in my own experience in salves both for old and new wounds that both wax and hony are very soveraigne Aches and itches I have holpen aches and strong itches in Bathes made of hony Once I had a friend had such a foule itch that hee was like a Leper then I tooke an empty wine Caske call'd a Pipe and tooke out one head and made a liquor of water and hony making it pretty strong with the hony and heat it as hot as my friend could indure to stand in it and put it into the Pipe and caused him to stand in it up to his neck a pretty while and this he did three daies one after another and was recovered as cleare as ever The like experience for aches If the Bath bee a little renewed with a little hony every day it is the better How to make wax In making wax you must put both your pulse and dry combs together into a kettle and put an indifferent quantity of water thereunto and make it boyle on the fire then take a thin cloth bag very strong or a haire bag and crush it as hard as you can and have seething water ready by you to put into the bag and to cast on the outside of the bag and wind it up close and crush and squeese it hard This doe three or foure times and the wax will come cleane away Then let it stand in the keelar or bowle till it be cold and then take up all the wax from the water and melt it again with a little water in the bottom to keep the vessell from burning and being melted put it into a pan or vessell of what size you think fit to make your cake or tren of wax but first annoint the vessell by the sides with a little hony or butter and so the wax will come clean off The singular use of wax in salves and chirurgery for cures both within and