. Manual of the apiary. Bees. â 212 MANUAL OP THE APIART. At intervals the comb in the bag should be pressed and stirred. The wax will collect on top of the water. To prevent the bag from burning, it should be kept from touching the bottom of the vessel by inverting a basin in the bottom of the latter, or else by using a double-walled vessel. The process should be repeated till the wax is perfectly â cleansed. But, as wax is to become so important, and as the above methods are slow, wasteful, and apt to give a poor quality of wax, specialists, and even amateurs who keep as many as ten â¢or twe
. Manual of the apiary. Bees. â 212 MANUAL OP THE APIART. At intervals the comb in the bag should be pressed and stirred. The wax will collect on top of the water. To prevent the bag from burning, it should be kept from touching the bottom of the vessel by inverting a basin in the bottom of the latter, or else by using a double-walled vessel. The process should be repeated till the wax is perfectly â cleansed. But, as wax is to become so important, and as the above methods are slow, wasteful, and apt to give a poor quality of wax, specialists, and even amateurs who keep as many as ten â¢or twenty colonies of bees, may well procure a wax ex- tractor (Fig. 70). This is also a foreign invention, the Fig. first being made by Prof. Grerster, of Berne, Switzerland. These cost from five to seven dollars, are made of tin, are very convenient and admirable, and can be procured of any dealer in apiarian supplies. By this invention, all the wax, even of the oldest combs, can be secured, in beautiful condition, and as it is perfectly neat, there is no danger of provoking the " best woman in the world," as we are in danger of doing by use of either of the above methodsâfor what is more untidy and perplexing than to have wax boil over on the stove, and perhaps get on to the floor, and be generally scattered about. All pieces of comb should be put into a close Dox, and if any larvae are in it, the comb should be melted so frequently that it would not smell badly. By taking pains, both in collecting and melting, the apiarist will be surprised at the close of the season, as he views his numerous and beautiful cakes of comb, and rejoice as he thinks how little trouble it has all 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. , T. G. Newman
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