. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 3i6 Saving the Wax. such trouble in my apiary. In Germany it is recommended to press the foundation for extracting combs onto a board and so have the cells built out only on one side and elon- gated so as to hold much honey. This gives strong combs and saves turning the frames when extracting. But wired combs are strong, and our improved extractors make turn- ing very easy and rapid. Again evaporation or ripening Fig. Wire Imbedder. in deep cells is very slow. I have also found that bees object to foundation on a boa
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 3i6 Saving the Wax. such trouble in my apiary. In Germany it is recommended to press the foundation for extracting combs onto a board and so have the cells built out only on one side and elon- gated so as to hold much honey. This gives strong combs and saves turning the frames when extracting. But wired combs are strong, and our improved extractors make turn- ing very easy and rapid. Again evaporation or ripening Fig. Wire Imbedder. in deep cells is very slow. I have also found that bees object to foundation on a board and often bite it off. SAVE THE WAX. As foundation is becoming so populai", it behooves us all to be very careful that no old comb goes to waste. Even now the supply of wax in the country is scarce equal to the demand. .Soiled drone-comb, old, worthless worker-comb all the comb in the old hives if we use Mr. Heddon's method of transferring, and all fragments that cannot be used in the hives, together with cappings, after the honey is drained out through a coarse bag or colander which process may be hastened by a moderate heat, not sufficient to melt the wax, and frequent stirring—should be melted cleansed and molded into cakes of wax, soon to be" again stamped, not by the bees, but by wondrous art. METHODS. A slow and wasteful method is to melt in a vessel of heated water, and to purify by turning off the top or. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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