Gleanings in bee culture . Zinc lids make a novel form of adulterant for beeswax. right, and they need the room, they will gofar toward changing the foundation intocomb in ten hours Full sheet of comb foundation partly drawn out into comb. GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE PROFITABLE PRODUCTION OF BEESWAX Running Combs, Honey, and all thru the Solar Extractor BY JOSEPH GRAY The editor has struck a line of thoughtthat interests me greatly since honey isgoing down in price and wax rising. Fur-thermore, the cost of cans and cases is goingup. For 500 lbs. of beeswax we need only afew sac
Gleanings in bee culture . Zinc lids make a novel form of adulterant for beeswax. right, and they need the room, they will gofar toward changing the foundation intocomb in ten hours Full sheet of comb foundation partly drawn out into comb. GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE PROFITABLE PRODUCTION OF BEESWAX Running Combs, Honey, and all thru the Solar Extractor BY JOSEPH GRAY The editor has struck a line of thoughtthat interests me greatly since honey isgoing down in price and wax rising. Fur-thermore, the cost of cans and cases is goingup. For 500 lbs. of beeswax we need only afew sacks for shipment, and a one-horse rigwill haul it. At 30 cents per lb. it repre-sents a value of $150. I was well satisfied with last years waxproduction, which I considered as impor-tant as the honey production. In certainparts of the season, ready-built comb is abig advantage; yet there are times whenbees want and will build comb. When hon-ey comes rolling in I space eight combs in aten-frame super. Thismakes the combs weigh 8to 10 lbs. each; and whenuncapped they yield an ,« 5£.pApPj^abundance of wax. To [g,..,^^^^^^^uncap I use a butcherssaw, and use it in thesame manner as a butcheruses
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