. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE HONEY-HOUSE AT THE HEATHER Notice the wire fence with busy himself, the lady volunteered to show us through the factory. We will not spend any time describ- ing the buildings in which tallow, stearine, ceresine and paraffine are purified or made into soap and candles. Of course beeswax is also used in mak- ing the candles, but we were informed that there are no longer any pure-wax candies made. When I was a child, the Catholic churc les would not use any candles but those made of the pure wax from the honeybee, for church consumption. Modern disco
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE HONEY-HOUSE AT THE HEATHER Notice the wire fence with busy himself, the lady volunteered to show us through the factory. We will not spend any time describ- ing the buildings in which tallow, stearine, ceresine and paraffine are purified or made into soap and candles. Of course beeswax is also used in mak- ing the candles, but we were informed that there are no longer any pure-wax candies made. When I was a child, the Catholic churc les would not use any candles but those made of the pure wax from the honeybee, for church consumption. Modern discoveries have brought a change in the regulations, and it ap- pears that only about 40 percent of the sweet-smelling product is required at present in the finest candles, I am not divulging a trade secret, but stating a commercial fact. But is not elec- tricity still better for church lights? That fr ghttul power of lightning which was at one time considered as the manifestation of the anger of God, and which was on the contrary one of the finest gifts from the Deity to man, is surely the proper light for solemn ceremonies. The honey and wax department of this institution is unlike anything we had ever seen. They had no stock on hand at the time, for the honey and wax rendering is all done in November and December. It is at that time that the bee owners of the Landes brim- stone the colonies which they do not wish to keep. After the bees have been killed, the willow skeps contain- ing the combs heavy with honey are brought to the factory and lumped at a price which nets the producer an aver- age of ?L'(10 per colony. The contents are cut out. dumped into a large press and the honey drained out. The wax is then melted in a vat and run into cakes. So their honey building con- tains very little machinery outside of several large steam vats and presses. During the previous year they liad handled some 600,000 pounds of honey APIARY OF COUTEREL & LAUSSUCQ a concrete corner post and
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