Gleanings in bee culture . ihood, beeswaxis about the last thing that I would try toadulterate, for such adulterations are soeasy to detect. Here are two instances of adulterationthat are almost laughable. The first illus-tration shows a cake of wax, the inside ofwhich is tallow. The party who fixed thisup evidently placed a few pieces of tallow in the dish and then poured in the meltedbeeswax. The first crack with the hammerrevealed the tallow, which, as the photo-graph shows, can be seen very if the tallow had been melted andthoroly mixed with the wax it would havebeen even easie
Gleanings in bee culture . ihood, beeswaxis about the last thing that I would try toadulterate, for such adulterations are soeasy to detect. Here are two instances of adulterationthat are almost laughable. The first illus-tration shows a cake of wax, the inside ofwhich is tallow. The party who fixed thisup evidently placed a few pieces of tallow in the dish and then poured in the meltedbeeswax. The first crack with the hammerrevealed the tallow, which, as the photo-graph shows, can be seen very if the tallow had been melted andthoroly mixed with the wax it would havebeen even easier to discover, for a verylittle tallow mixed with wax makes a sticky combination, entirely dSfiferentfrom pure beeswax. The second illustration shows a couple ofzinc fruit-jar lids surrounded by the price of zinc continues to go up Iwonder if the time will not soon come whenthis particular man would find it moreprofitable to pour wax into the lids andsell them as scrap zinc! For a good many years I have read all. A cake of wax adulterated with tallow. If the tallow is melted and mixed with the wax it makes it feelSticky. In this instance hot wax was poured over pieces of tallow, which showed very plainly when thecake was broken up. JUNE 1, 1916 the discussions in Glean-ings on tlie subject ofthe amount of honey orsyrup required to enablebees to secrete a givenamount of wax, and Iconfess to a growing-feeling of youll have toshow me in regard to thestatement that it takes fif-teen (or ? even sevenpounds) of honey to pro-duce one pound of amount of corab thatbees sometimes buildwhen confined in a cagetends to disprove thesetheories. No doubt, un-der certain circumstances,if fifteen pounds of honeywere fed to a colony, notmore than a pound ofwax would be secreted;but what of the amountI hat the bees feed tobrood, and actually con-sume for their own suste-nance? How a sheet of foun-dation does grow whenthe bees get at it! In caseof foundation they drawout the cell
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