A Profitable Instruction of the Perfite Ordering of Bees: With the Maruellous Nature, Propertie, and Gouernemente of Them: and the Necessarie Vses Both of Their Honie and Waxe, Seruing Diuersly, as Well in Inward as Outward Causes: Gathered Out of the Best WritersHill, Thomas
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A Profitable Instruction of the Perfite Ordering of Bees: With the Maruellous Nature, Propertie, and Gouernemente of Them: and the Necessarie Vses Both of Their Honie and Waxe, Seruing Diuersly, as Well in Inward as Outward Causes: Gathered Out of the Best Writers
Hill, Thomas
Bee culture -- Early works to 1800; Bees -- Early works to 1800
Of that whiche is a stay of the combes, and made cap.xxxvij.
for a defence of Bees.
How to make waxe white. cap.xxxviij.
How to make red waxe. cap.xxxix.
How to draw a profitable oyle out of waxe for cap.xl.
sundry vses.
Another way of drawing the oyle of waxe most cap.xlj.
noble, and dothe maruellously help the cold goute,
the sciaticke, the swelling of the legges, and all
other griefes of a colde cause.
_These described in the other Treatise._
Certaine Husbandly coniectures of dearth & plenty cap.j.
for euer.
An euerlasting Prognostication of the state and cap.ij.
condition of euery yeare, by the only calends of
Ianuary, written by the ancient & learned _Leopol.
Aust._ & other for the commodity of the wise
husbandmen.
How to foreknow the state of the yeare by the only cap.iij.
rising of the dog starre, out of the husbandrie of
_Diophanes_.
Other profitabl instructions, right necessary for cap.iiij.
husbandmen to know.
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¶ The firste Treatise setteth foorthe the
_strange gouernment, propertie, and benifite_
of the Bees, with the commoditie of their Hony
and Waxe, whiche serue vnto many good vses, as well
_in outward as inwarde causes applied, gathered out of_ Plinie,
Albertus, Varro, Columella, Palladius,
Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cardanus,
Guilielmus de Conchis, Agrippa,
and diuers other singular
Authours.
¶ Why Bees are named to be creasted or parted betweene,
or as it were ringed, or rather pleighted. What work the
swarme newe gathered in the Hiue, first taketh in hande,
and whether they maye liue after their stings bee gone.
Cap.first.
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